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Rating tennis badly and unwilling to compromise (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

intransigent

'unwilling to compromise' is the definition.
(intransigent means inflexible)

'rating tennis badly' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator.
'rating'+'tennis'='ratingtennis'
'ratingtennis' with letters rearranged gives 'INTRANSIGENT'.

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for intransigent that I've seen before include "Uncompromising" , "becomes immovable" , "staying put" , "Not flexible" , "Not prepared to adapt or compromise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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