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The ‘Silent Ban’ and Other Monsters: Trust in ‘Clean’ Tennis and Its Weaknesses

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In recent days, many fans of players who achieved major results during the period known as the Silent Ban have questioned the legitimacy of the Wimbledon 2025 outcomes, due to the positive tests (for unintentional contamination) returned by Swiatek and Sinner. It is therefore worth examining how solid the belief really is that Swiatek and Sinner were treated too leniently

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The System That Breaks Its Players

In New York, at the US Open 2025, Jack Draper didn’t even make it through the second round. After a summer plagued by pain in his left arm, the world No. 5 announced that his season is over: “I felt as if my arm was switching off. Unfortunately the injury

Game, Set, Kingdom

The tenth 1000 in Riyadh from 2028

Surface Tension

The Battle for the Soul of Tennis

Too Tight to Mention

January 17, 2026

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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

Kasatkina and the Saudi question: “We don’t have a say.”

January 15, 2026

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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

2025: A Year on the Fault Line.

December 30, 2025

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Two men, four Slams, and a sport up for grabs

What You Find in the Tube

December 18, 2025

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The ball is the variable tennis fails to clarify

“The winner takes it all”

December 4, 2025

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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.

Is Tennis Losing Its ‘One Vision’?

November 23, 2025

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Tennis Australia moves towards settlement with the PTPA: key dates and the political meaning of a near-agreement

ATP and the Death of the Tennis Middle Class, in Andrea Gaudenzi’s Own Telling

November 20, 2025

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How One Vision, Saudi money and a tenth Masters are rewriting who the tour is really for.

When the ATP Stopped Belonging to the Players

November 10, 2025

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As the ATP Finals light up Turin once again, tennis celebrates what is meant to be the pinnacle of its season—the triumph of a tour that, on paper, belongs equally to its players and its tournaments. Yet behind the polished stage and choreographed unity lies a deeper truth: the ATP

Game, Set, Whitewash: Saudi Arabia’s Gamble on Global Tennis

October 18, 2025

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What Is Being “Washed”? - Sportswashing. The core question lies in what this glossy façade seeks to obscure. Behind the modern stadiums and glamorous events, organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch document a darker reality.

Rome Doesn’t Have a Crime Problem. It Has a Tolerance Problem.

May 30, 2025

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Micro-Betting and the Advantage of Being There. Micro-betting (live bets placed on minimal and instantaneous events, such as a single point or a double fault) is now a permanent fixture in the modern sports betting landscape. The Internazionali d’Italia wants to be the fifth Slam, but still treats certain troublemakers

THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

The ‘Silent Ban’ and Other Monsters: Trust in ‘Clean’ Tennis and Its Weaknesses

The System That Breaks Its Players

Game, Set, Kingdom

Surface Tension

Too Tight to Mention

Kasatkina and the Saudi question: “We don’t have a say.”

2025: A Year on the Fault Line.

What You Find in the Tube

“The winner takes it all”

Is Tennis Losing Its ‘One Vision’?

ATP and the Death of the Tennis Middle Class, in Andrea Gaudenzi’s Own Telling

When the ATP Stopped Belonging to the Players

Game, Set, Whitewash: Saudi Arabia’s Gamble on Global Tennis

Rome Doesn’t Have a Crime Problem. It Has a Tolerance Problem.

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