When heat becomes regulation
The ATP Heat Policy 2026, WBGT and the real problem: whole days above the threshold
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Too Tight to Mention
As the slide above shows, no serious institution or regulator treats betting as “healthy” or harmless. It’s restricted everywhere, and minors can’t even take part. Yet tennis still monetises it through sponsorships, as if we’d rewound the clock to the era when motorsport could be plastered with cigarette brands (until
Surface Tension
The Battle for the Soul of Tennis
Alcaraz, the wrist and the risk you cannot see
By withdrawing, Alcaraz is accepting that, for once, his tennis cannot be
Doubles foots the bill
At Wimbledon, on Friday 3 July, a group of doubles players signed a statement that included a line built to last: they are not, they wrote, a "carnival sideshow". A few days earlier, away from the courts, around fifty doubles specialists had met ATP executives to be briefed on the
Modern Tennis Is Harder to Finish
Tennis Hasn’t Become Too Long. It’s Become Too Dense. Too many players are missing from Wimbledon 2026: Alcaraz with a wrist injury, Rune with an Achilles tendon injury, Musetti with a thigh injury, Draper with an arm injury, Korda with a back injury, and many others only just back from
Vondroušová’s four-year suspension: a sanction that can be explained, but not yet fully assessed
The ITIA has on its side a very harsh and fairly clear rule: the athlete can be tested outside the window, and refusal constitutes a serious violation. Vondroušová has on her side a human and potentially procedural argument: an evening test at home, personal safety, contested identification and certified psychological
Dan Evans Denied a Wimbledon Send-Off
The All England Club hands a singles wildcard to a 44-year-old Serena Williams — four years away and 34 pounds lighter on a GLP-1 — yet sends Britain's own retiring former No. 1 to Roehampton to qualify.
Serena Williams and the comeback anti-doping cannot yet name
The point is what Williams’s return brings with it. Because Williams is not simply coming back after a break. She is coming back after becoming the public face of Ro, a telemedicine company that sells GLP-1 weight-loss treatments.
Sinner: The Body We Don’t See
The point is not to make a diagnosis from the outside. That would be wrong and pointless. The point is to understand why these episodes are so striking in Sinner’s case. Not because he is a weak athlete. Quite the opposite: because Sinner became world number one by building his
Monaco on the label, France under the clay
The interesting point is elsewhere: this tournament uses the Principality as brand, backdrop and symbolic capital, but materially it exists in France. France provides the ground and, when needed, the legal framework. Monaco provides the name that carries weight. This is not just a geographical curiosity. It is the way
The ATP pension plan doesn’t fix the system, it explains it
So the contradiction remains intact: the tour centralises revenue linked to an activity the World Health Organization says can harm health, denies players direct access to that same stream during their careers, and still extends the safety net even to those who have already made fortunes.
The Price of Riyadh
It is the part of the year in which South America still holds together Buenos Aires, Rio and Santiago with a distinct identity: clay courts, crowds close to the action, a tradition that still has a recognisable face. To place a Saudi-backed Masters 1000 there is to rewrite the hierarchy
Kasatkina and the Saudi question: “We don’t have a say.”
Tennis does the deals, players take the heat: “We are players, we want to play tennis, we need to earn money and provide for our families, so I would say we’re somewhere in the middle. We are the ones who have to go there and play, it’s our job, and
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