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Hawk-Eye in Tennis: Is it Just the Poetry That’s Fading?

The 'probabilistic weight' carrying more conviction about the reality of the event (ball out) than the electronic system’s indication alone: that’s why the umpire should be authorized to come down.

Featured·History·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

“The winner takes it all”

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.

WADA: an offer he can’t refuse.

On February 15, 2025, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced that it

When heat becomes regulation

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

The ATP pension plan doesn’t fix the system, it explains it

April 4, 2026

Featured·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

March 14, 2026

Featured·NEWS·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

Corleone Guest-Arrival Chic Comes to Indian Wells

March 8, 2026

Fashion

At moments, some of those Indian Wells “Athlete Arrivals” looked less like fashion than like the arrival of the wedding guests in The Godfather. Which, in its own way, gets to the heart of the problem. The whole thing felt less like a fashion language than a highly managed piece

Tomás Martín Etcheverry: el Retu

February 26, 2026

History·Lifestyle·Photography·THE GAME

His beginning, though, is the kind that explains a temperament. As a child he starts with a holiday toy — a palo con pelota, a ball tied to an elastic — and it doesn’t end after ten minutes: he stays there for hours, until play becomes repeated gesture, and repeated

Triste, solitario y el número uno

February 16, 2026

Featured·History·Math·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

This article aims to examine, with rigour and analytical depth, the research carried out by Argentine journalist Eduardo Puppo, given the many misunderstandings, especially among fans. That investigation, which lasted more than twelve years and is known as “Project V”, highlighted discrepancies in the available data, documentary gaps and operational

The banned wristband and the real match: who controls tennis data

February 2, 2026

Featured·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

The organisers do have one defensible argument: “coaching” is not an invented scarecrow. The International Tennis Federation approved WHOOP as Player Analysis Technology with a hard condition: the device has haptic feedback capability and use is only allowed if the player can demonstrate that the vibrations are disabled. If you

The system keeps cashing in, the bodies keep paying

January 29, 2026

Featured·THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

If this sounds like vibes, it is not. Peer reviewed work tracking ATP and WTA matches has found an increasing trend in retirements over time, with factors like surface, tournament type and round influencing the risk. A separate analysis and summary work has put the rise in stark terms: retirements

Too Tight to Mention

January 17, 2026

Featured·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

NEWS·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

2026 Won’t Wait: The Under-18 Elite Are Already Feeling the Pro Cost

January 3, 2026

THE GAME

The shortcut that is not a shortcut: when a teenager becomes an accomplished fact. The clearest case is Mirra Andreeva, born in 2007: not “the most promising”, but a player already planted in the heart of the tour. In 2025 she won two consecutive WTA 1000s, Dubai and Indian Wells,

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