Pre-French Open ATP Power Rankings Who Are the Top Contenders Heading Into Roland Garros?
The French Open begins in less than a week, and the clay court season has handed us more than enough…
Jack Beatnik
I'm a longtime sports fan and writer who spent most of his time writing about tennis. I've been doing this for over 5 years and it's been a blast. I mostly enjoy writing longer pieces which allow me to ruminate on all things tennis. Besides tennis I'm also very interested in basketball and football or as some call it soccer.
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Pre-French Open WTA Power Rankings: Who is Ready for Roland Garros?
With the French Open just around the corner, the clay court season has done its job of separating contenders from…
The Story Behind The Player: Iga Swiatek
Iga Swiatek carries a father’s Olympic ghost and has built a dynasty around it. In the summer of 1988, a…
The Story Behind the Player: Jannik Sinner
Once upon a time, there was a boy from the mountain. Jannik Sinner grew up somewhere tennis had no business…
Baby Federer Grew Up: Grigor Dimitrov Has Nothing Left to Prove
There is a version of the Grigor Dimitrov story that reads as a tragedy. A generational talent, burdened by a…
Novak Djokovic: The Story Behind the All-Time Great Player
, how to queue for bread at five in the morning, Serbia. War. Poverty. Twenty-four Grand Slams. None of it…
Hailey Baptiste: The Girl From D.C. Who Just Beat the World #1
On Tuesday evening inside Manolo Santana Stadium in Madrid, a 24-year-old American named Hailey Baptiste saved six match points and…
Dino Prižmić Is a Star in the Making
On the eve of last year’s Next Gen ATP Finals, the season-ending event that gathers the world’s best young tennis…
Stefanos Tsitsipas in Madrid Was Encouraging But Not a Resurgence
There is a version of the Stefanos Tsitsipas story that the tennis world wants desperately to tell. The fallen genius,…
Is Lorenzo Musetti Slumping, or Are We Expecting Too Much?
Context is the most frequently discarded tool in sports journalism, and nowhere is that truer than in the coverage of…
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