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“The winner takes it all”

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Tennis, the NFL and the union of the top ten: why 17.5 per cent is an alibi Sinner in 2024 is on about 24 million in total. World No. 100 (Coria) is on roughly 600,000 dollars. World No. 250 (Shelbayh) just over 200,000. Translated: Sinner ≈ 40 times No. 100. Sinner ≈ more than 100 times No. 250.

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When heat becomes regulation

The ATP Heat Policy 2026, WBGT and the real problem: whole days above the threshold

Too Tight to Mention

As the slide above shows, no serious institution or regulator treats betting

The System That Breaks Its Players

In New York, at the US Open 2025, Jack Draper didn’t even

To stop the train in case of emergency

September 13, 2026

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What LIV Golf’s Chapter 11 should teach tennis about Saudi capital

Grow the game

September 8, 2026

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Let’s borrow from Popper. The USTA’s theory is not scientific because it is not falsifiable. As formulated, it can never be proved wrong.

If You Can’t Make the Changeover, Lose Faster

September 4, 2026

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You can understand why: I wouldn’t ask a physio for a diagnosis, at most an opinion. A clinical classification made in a couple of minutes should not have final consequences under the rules. And yet… for all the boiling over, for all the fact that he was fucking furious, nothing

I Want Federer’s Racket

August 25, 2026

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Twenty-four rackets for a millimetre and a half might seem like madness, but we are talking about Nadal’s ball, which Djokovic could not play quite the way he wanted. So we are somewhere between myth and obsession. You decide which is which, and what is what.

Take a Look at the Wild Card

August 16, 2026

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Tsitsipas is hardly an isolated case. Marko Djokovic, Novak’s brother, received eight wild cards into ATP tournaments without winning a match. In 2021 Emma Navarro, then ranked No. 492 in the WTA rankings — this is the WTA, but the principle is the same — received two consecutive wild cards

The talent pipeline tennis does not pay for

August 7, 2026

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It is a curious story, but one that shows just how much college tennis has changed. A player can now move between the tour and campus while retaining their ATP or WTA ranking. For years, this route was regarded as second-rate.

Vondroušová: how an argument turned into a four-year anti-doping ban

August 1, 2026

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The written reasons show that she knowingly refused the test because she believed she was being subjected to an abuse of authority. They also reveal that the officer did not show her credentials and used an outdated form.

Canadian Open: The Fateful Wrath of Valérie Tétreault

July 29, 2026

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“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns…” So begins Homer’s Odyssey in Robert Fagles’s translation. This time, however, it is Valérie Tétreault, director of the Montreal Masters 1000, who is asking for answers. Following the withdrawals of Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic—two “men of

The World Cup Is Over. So Is Football. Tennis Is Working on It

July 20, 2026

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And so football has become five-a-side, tennis has become an artillery duel, and sport has become whatever happens between one ad break and the next. They did not abolish football and tennis. They improved them until they became something else.

Doubles foots the bill

July 7, 2026

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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

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