endnote n.75: Hal's dread of exhibiting for Wayne
Hal’s private dread is that Tavis will want him to offer up his personal competitive map and dignity to John (‘N.R.’) Wayne—who’s never in several matches lost more than three games in a set to Hal—for the titillation of the alumni and patrons at the November Fundraiser-gala’s exhibitions, though this is pretty unlikely right before the WhataBurger, when Hal’ll be apt to face Wayne in the semis anyway, and Schtitt isn’t apt to want an utter demapping that fresh in Hal’s mind right before a major event.
Context
The whole endnote, hanging off scene 057's fundraiser-exhibition talk. Self-cartography at the net: Hal's competitive selfhood is "his personal competitive map," and a public defeat by Wayne would be "an utter demapping" — the book's murder/suicide idiom migrated wholesale to tennis, where losing badly enough is a kind of dying, and where the coaching staff manages the schedule to protect the map.