not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_

[Laurence Horn]

Mary Carillo, NBC commentator for the tennis grand slams, is fond of
referring to the current situation in tennis as a _trivalry_, what
with Novak Djokovic challenging Rafael Nadal for supremacy, but Roger
Federer--the "old man" at 29--still hanging on, just having defeated
Djokovic in the French Open semis before losing a tough match with
Nadal in today's final.  No doubt there have been earlier trivalries
that motivated the same term, but I don't know how far back it goes.

LH

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