photo: Morgan Hancock This journeyman/rookie/newberry/giant killer is the ATP in a nutshell. Really none of these next gen, younger tour talents has amounted to much so far and yes I am including the Tsitsipas, Thiem, Zverev and Medvedevs of the world. Sinner, a lot of people's favorite young dynamite talent, just got "stunned" by Karatsev. …
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WTF
This post is not about the World Tour Finals, beginning in a week. I'm just taking a minute to share ATP.com's big headline today, this esteemed organization's main page excitement! Yay! You can't make this up. He's soured again a prestigious 1000 final four, protecting himself in more ways than one. Yet here, on the …
The 2019 USO is ATP Commentary
I saw a thread on Twitter recently that projected and simultaneously asked for responses on the final tally of career Majors for the Big 3. The tweet along with the several responses were all in the same ball park with various iterations: Novak finishing with 24, Nadal 22 and Federer 20; or Nadal 23, Djokovic …
Hey, ATP: Put Your Clothes On!
I said two things yesterday in my short fairly lightweight post that ring too true. What if you’re a betting man and you like the looks of the Kyrgios v Khachanov match later today? How do you lean there? Does the Aussie even show-up? Looks like a clash of titans on one hand. Does that …
From What Planet Hails the ATP?
Source The ATP site will most likely move-on from this announcement, lead image/story since the 2019 Wimbledon semi-finals just became set for play on Friday with Djokovic vs RBA in one and Fedal in the other. Perhaps this Nitto ATP Finals "news" is just a position holder while the staff frantically get their stories written …
Nadal, GTFOH.
https://twitter.com/ATP_Tour/status/1113106667519053829 Two weeks ago he retired from an Indian Wells semi-final, fucking-over an entire population of tennis fans, some of whom were holding a ticket for the match between his clay court highness and Federer. He sure looks like the clay court specialist he is in that video from Twitter. GTFOH. This is from the …
The ATP is Drunk
Not sure who exactly is in charge of what (marketing, draws, doing the laundry, etc.), but the ATP (is that Chris Kermode?) is a mess. I'm just pointing to two things: that Next Gen opening ceremony disaster - how dumb was that? But I have dumber: the Nitto ATP Finals group drawings. I said at …
Nadal and My Stream-of-Consciousness
I'm in the business of trying to explain myself. That's how this works, this blog at least. My last post was all over the place, but still an impressive piece of stream-of- consciousness. No? Well, let's just agree to disagree on that one. 😀 Thanks again to Wilfried for his article on top players' connections …
I Juan You to Cheer for Del Potro
Folks, a post is coming later today/tonight to get us caught-up. The boys have been in full flight since, after all, London's Calling . . . "to the faraway towns / Now war is declared and battle come down. . ." That intertext was a no-brainer. Do you Juan to know another no-brainer? Root for …
ATP Youth On the Rise
The complicated discussion of the ATP youth took a more positive spin last week (for which I will provide a more positive spin), which naturally follows from play earlier in the year and is actually part of a basic cycle of life: the young grow, mature, become stronger and more refined in order to overcome …
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