The French food critic François Simon has described the 50 Best as a sort of childlike racket — "a world order of Care Bears, and this under the cynical gaze of a sparkling water".
Basic air conditioning cannot stop the sweat dripping from the ceiling as the 63-year-old Johnson plays the sort of primal racket that has always made this club jump.
If we are to believe Hobbes, then in the earliest years of humanity our leaders signed a contract with this Leviathan, binding our wills to it in exchange for security – a sort of primal protection racket.
"I think for professional-level players, Nadal's racket probably represents one end of a spectrum and maybe Roger's is the other end, and I would say Novak's racket is sort of in the middle there somewhere," said Cory Springer, the global business director for rackets at Wilson.
As we rejoin them, Milky (Andrew Shim) and Woody (Joseph Gilgun) have some sort of peculiar school dinner-related racket on the go.
In France, the king's coin offers the industry some shelter from risk, but threatens to become a sort of mandatory bear hug a protection racket that admits no exceptions, not even its own cultural ones.
