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We're delighted to launch the expansion of tennis on @TheAthletic, taking you beyond the baseline.
The brilliant @CDEccleshare and @MattFutterman will bring you the biggest moments, exploring how tennis and culture shape each other, now and in the future nytimes.com/athletic/5481626…
James Hansen retweeted
Arthur Fils said at the French Open that he has had lower-back issues since childhood. This is not going to be a straightforward rehabilitation for one of the most exciting talents in the men's game
vivek ramaswamy has put tennis prowess at the center of his political identity, during a GOP presidential campaign and a bid to be the governor of ohio.
myriad outlets have called him a "nationally ranked junior tennis player." was he?
@MattFutterman
nytimes.com/athletic/7737362…
jódar very slack in attacking positions in the third set, 0-30 that should have been 0-40 / 15-40 in the ninth game and then 5-4 in the tiebreak
James Hansen retweeted
Sexism has plagued surfing for generations.
Now, a rape allegation has led to a reckoning.
Story from @MelodyGutierrez, @retauber and me:
nytimes.com/athletic/7730175…
[me, through tears]: you can't just point at the same account making obviously fake tennis quotes from big players and believe they are true
[too many tennis journalists pointing at the same account]: they are true!
tennis gods playing a cruel joke by delivering an all-italian atp match that no one wishes to watch right now
James Hansen retweeted
“I retired only two years ago, but it’s already like another life that I was playing tennis.”
Spoke to Rafael Nadal about the luxe new coffee table book charting his career. The titles, the fashion choices, the injuries.
And what comes next:
nytimes.com/athletic/7709804…
James Hansen retweeted
New today, an article going in extreme detail on something many of us have always wondered but is typically poorly-explained — what's happening inside NFL headsets during a game?
What do these people actually do?
James Hansen retweeted
These and other mysteries expertly explained by @JourdanRodrigue and @SandoNFL in collaboration with @arturgalocha + Kavya Beheraj + Kelsea Petersen
Gift link:
nytimes.com/athletic/interac…
coco gauff's music video debut in gunna's "pop it" is a vindication of the relationships and respect she has built across music and fashion, as well as the fact that she can hit a bomb on command.
@avarwallace on her latest serve, free-to-read
nytimes.com/athletic/7696833…
ann li's stunning win over aryna sabalenka was a roller coaster even before the american earned 10 match points — and finally got it done.
free from @avarwallace
nytimes.com/athletic/7689681…
since gaël monfils appeared on the retired list, the atp 250 event in lyon — at which he had a wild card and was going to play an exhibition with tsonga, gasquet and simon — has said that he has withdrawn due to personal reasons
nytimes.com/athletic/7689095…
a fortnight ago, emma navarro detailed her health journey the past two years.
her detail of her experience with red-s — a syndrome wrongly assumed to only affect endurance athletes — has widened a vital sports conversation
free story from @avarwallace
nytimes.com/athletic/7685873…
tommy paul is one of few players i've seen show the discipline to keep vacherot in a forehand cage, which just works, especially on a court with a bit of pace in it
carlos alcaraz has mostly escaped from his own serve the past few weeks by using his outstanding first-serve return.
unfortunately for him, zizou bergs was serving like a demon in shanghai monday night
nytimes.com/athletic/7683747…
after a summer of collapse-on-back celebrations, zheng qinwen did it again at the china open, to rubber-stamp her climb back up the tennis ladder.
then it was time for karaoke
nytimes.com/athletic/7680131…
