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Fall guy showing energy around Court One (6)

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I believe the answer is:

victim

'fall guy' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'energy around court one' is the wordplay.
'energy' becomes 'vim' ('vim' can be a synonym of 'energy'**).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'ct'+'i'='cti'
'vim' placed around 'cti' is 'VICTIM'.

'showing' is the link.

(Other definitions for victim that I've seen before include "Fall guy" , "A prey or sufferer" , "Object of attack" , "Subject of a crime" , "One harmed by crime" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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