Troeltsch taken ill: a ranked body taken ill
current Enfield Tennis Academy rank in Boys' 18's #8, which puts him at #2 Singles on the 18's B-team, has been taken ill. Again.
Context
Troeltsch is introduced entirely as a coordinate in the ranking apparatus — "#8" in the 18's, "#2 Singles on the 18's B-team" — before the sentence even says his body has failed. The institution's grid locates him precisely by number, and the ledger's precision is the joke: a body ranked to the decimal, and it can be laid out overnight by a rhinovirus. The "Again" tells you the machine breaks down on a schedule of its own.