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The Cincinnati Magician: Anatomy of the Rise of Terence Atmane, Tennis’s Troubled Genius

This atypical start is more than just a quirky anecdote; it is a crucial lens through which to understand the player Atmane would become. Video games, especially at a competitive level, hone vital cognitive skills: lightning-fast pattern recognition, predictive analysis, and the ability to make split-second decisions under pressure. This virtual "training" may well have instilled in him a preference

NEWS·Podcast·THE GAME

The Summer of Tennis: Results, Injuries, and a New Pecking Order Ahead of the US Open

This period brought several dynamics of professional tennis into sharp focus. Firstly, it highlighted a contrast at the top of the game, with some leading players securing victories while others battled physical setbacks. Secondly, it witnessed the rise of a new generation of players capable of achieving high-profile results. Lastly,

Bellucci and C.P. Company: When Tennis Becomes Style

Bellucci, who dresses the way he plays—fearlessly, without pretence—found a natural connection

When heat becomes regulation

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

Doubles foots the bill

July 7, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

June 30, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

June 24, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

June 23, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

June 11, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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.

Zverev and the habeas corpus tennis grants only when it suits

June 10, 2026

Featured·TENNIS IQ·THE GAME

If you do not prove guilt, you cannot treat it as proved. That applies to Sinner, in his anti-doping case. It applies to Zverev, in the cases concerning him. It applies above all when applying it is uncomfortable, because that is when a principle stops being a decorative phrase and

Sascha Zverev, finally

June 7, 2026

Featured·TENNIS IQ·THE GAME

Alexander Zverev has won Roland Garros. It sounds strange even now, perhaps because it has taken so long for tennis to allow that sentence to exist.

Sinner: The Body We Don’t See

June 1, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

Stan and Gaël, The Weight and the Wonder

May 26, 2026

History·THE GAME

Stan Wawrinka and Gaël Monfils left Paris on the same day, or almost in the same breath, as happens with certain characters whom fate never quite brings together, only to summon them at the end, when there is no longer any need to explain anything. One had the gait of

Kei Nishikori and the Narrow Door

May 4, 2026

THE GAME

It was not a glamorous exile. He spoke little English, missed the rice balls, miso soup and grilled fish of Matsue, and was remembered by those around him as a shy, quiet boy who could barely communicate. The idea behind the project was simple enough: if Japan wanted a player

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