'Cause you're a sky full of (tennis) stars!
Tennis fans found out this week that they can count the British rock band Coldplay as "one of us." (Or their manager, at the very least.)
It all started when an X user noticed that that band's carefully-curated "following" section on Instagram (despite having nearly 27 million people as its Instagram audience, the band only follows less than 100 accounts) had increased by more than a dozen in a short period of time last week. Upon further review, the additions to the list were some of tennis' biggest names, past and present: from the Big 4 of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, to the current generation of greats like Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner.
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They, and others, as the post proceeded to rack up more than 11,000 likes, just had one question to ask: Why?