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Winning Probabilities in Tennis: How Small Edges Create Big Wins

Winning Probabilities in Tennis: How Small Edges Create Big Wins Tennis is a game of skill, endurance, and mental toughness. But did you know that a tiny statistical advantage can make a huge difference in the final outcome of a match?

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Speed and Betrayal: The Evolution of Grass Courts from 1979 to Today, from Wimbledon to Kooyong

Grass is not simply a surface for tennis; it is its cradle, the very essence of "Lawn Tennis" as it was conceived in the 19th century. Historically, its intrinsic characteristics—a low, fast, and often unpredictable bounce—forged an aggressive style of play, rewarding powerful serves, precise volleys, and a fearless approach

When heat becomes regulation

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

Too Tight to Mention

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

To stop the train in case of emergency

September 13, 2026

Featured·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

Grow the game

September 8, 2026

Featured·History·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

Take a Look at the Wild Card

August 16, 2026

Featured·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

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

August 1, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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 They also reveal that the officer did not show her credentials and used an outdated form.

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

July 20, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

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

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.

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