Is Aryna Sabalenka vs Elena Rybakina the World Number 1 against the Best Player in the World?
Tomorrow at Indian Wells, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina will play each other for the sixteenth time. The tour’s two…
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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March 14, 2026
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Opinion
Pickleball is Slowly Strangling Tennis
Every March, the Indian Wells Tennis Garden unfurls its banners, fires up the Instagram account, and invites the world to…
Is the WTA asking too much of its players?
For just the second time in her career, Coco Gauff was unable to complete a WTA match. She was trailing…
Carlos Alcaraz And The Price of Being the Standard
There is a specific problem that comes with being so good that your opponents play the best tennis of their…
Novak Djokovic: The Machine That Won’t Switch Off
Wednesday night in Indian Wells, Novak Djokovic plays Jack Draper. On paper, it is a fourth-round match at a Masters…
The Spin Window Is Closing and Emma Navarro Missed It
There is a specific type of tennis player that the WTA tour produced in abundance for about a three-year stretch…
Luciano Darderi and The Worst Ending You’ll See To A Tennis Match All Year
Mattch point down in the second round at Indian Wells, Luciano Darderi lobbed a defensive ball into the air and…
Emma Raducanu Is Not Serious about Becoming an Elite Tennis Player
Emma Raducanu was ranked 150th in the world and had played exactly one Grand Slam main draw in her life.…
Juan Carlos Ferrero Speaks on Carlos Alcaraz: “When I See Him Play, I Feel Sadness.”
Juan Carlos Ferrero sat down on Thursday for an hour on El Cafelito, the Spanish video-podcast hosted by Josep Pedrerol,…
Salad or McDonald’s: Arthur Fils’ Hard Lesson
In a letter to his younger self, published by The Players’ Tribune, Pete Sampras wrote that one day all tennis…
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