Embed from Getty Images Yesterday’s final was a baseline rally between reverence and melancholy. We observed waves of silence enveloping the court, depriving the grass and the players alike of parabolic oxygen. Carlos Alcaraz needs the crowd to breathe, though not nearly as much as...Continue reading
The Changing of the Guard The grass of Centre Court is wilted and worn, lines of dragged feet and sliding forehands marking out baseline. Echoes of 140 mph serves can be heard from Court 1 as another thunderous rally plays out under the afternoon London...
IMAGE CREDIT: Jack Draper AELTC/Florian Eisele In the first two rounds of Wimbledon, 36 seeded players have been eliminated, 17 on the women’s side and 19 for the men. This includes half of the current ATP top 10. Jack Draper is the most recent of...
The grass court season follows the trajectory of the surface it’s played on. Fast, flat, and low-bouncing, the three-week lead-in to Wimbledon is easily missed, like a punishing passing shot after a weak volley at the net. Nevertheless, grass is arguably tennis’ most emblematic surface....Continue reading
Witnessing History: The 2025 Roland-Garros Final The Roland-Garros final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner was, indisputably, historic. Anyone who witnessed the spectacle, whether in person, on TV, or, in my case, on a phone screen in a hotel room, is a part of something...Continue reading
Submitted for the 2025 BTJA Mike Dickson Award, this article was highly commended by the panel. Last July, I found myself searching for pockets of shade between the seats of the FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington DC. Omnipresent storm clouds hung overhead as Sebastian Korda...Continue reading
Introduction The sports landscape will continue to evolve in the coming decades with the integration of advanced AI technologies, data analysis, and marketing. This is especially the case in Formula 1, where the difference between physical prowess and mechanical precision can be hard to distinguish...Continue reading
Embed from Getty Images This article was released prior to Jannik Sinner’s settlement with WADA, which was made public on February 15th, 2025. Sinner received a three month ban from tennis which began on February 9th, 2025. Sinner is eligible to return to professional tennis...Continue reading
ATP Dubai Open Analysis 3/8/2024 25-year-old Ugo Humbert’s record against Daniil Medvedev is, after their meeting last week in Dubai, 3-1 in favor of the Frenchman. For a player that had, before February, never been ranked higher than 20 in the world, this is a...Continue reading
ATP Qatar Open Analysis 2/25/2024 Context At 3,000 points less than 4th ranked Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, according to Tennis Channel’s stream, had little to fight for this week at Doha 250. Most would disagree with this take. Every game played by Rublev is warfare....