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We're delighted to launch the expansion of tennis on @TheAthletic, taking you beyond the baseline.
The brilliant @CDEccleshare and @MattFutterman will bring you the biggest moments, exploring how tennis and culture shape each other, now and in the future nytimes.com/athletic/5481626…
James Hansen retweeted
New today, an article going in extreme detail on something many of us have always wondered but is typically poorly-explained — what's happening inside NFL headsets during a game?
What do these people actually do?
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These and other mysteries expertly explained by @JourdanRodrigue and @SandoNFL in collaboration with @arturgalocha + Kavya Beheraj + Kelsea Petersen
Gift link:
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coco gauff's music video debut in gunna's "pop it" is a vindication of the relationships and respect she has built across music and fashion, as well as the fact that she can hit a bomb on command.
@avarwallace on her latest serve, free-to-read
nytimes.com/athletic/7696833…
ann li's stunning win over aryna sabalenka was a roller coaster even before the american earned 10 match points — and finally got it done.
free from @avarwallace
nytimes.com/athletic/7689681…
since gaël monfils appeared on the retired list, the atp 250 event in lyon — at which he had a wild card and was going to play an exhibition with tsonga, gasquet and simon — has said that he has withdrawn due to personal reasons
nytimes.com/athletic/7689095…
a fortnight ago, emma navarro detailed her health journey the past two years.
her detail of her experience with red-s — a syndrome wrongly assumed to only affect endurance athletes — has widened a vital sports conversation
free story from @avarwallace
nytimes.com/athletic/7685873…
tommy paul is one of few players i've seen show the discipline to keep vacherot in a forehand cage, which just works, especially on a court with a bit of pace in it
carlos alcaraz has mostly escaped from his own serve the past few weeks by using his outstanding first-serve return.
unfortunately for him, zizou bergs was serving like a demon in shanghai monday night
nytimes.com/athletic/7683747…
after a summer of collapse-on-back celebrations, zheng qinwen did it again at the china open, to rubber-stamp her climb back up the tennis ladder.
then it was time for karaoke
nytimes.com/athletic/7680131…
tennis channel commentator overpronouncing "andreeva" while continuing to get "zheng qinwen" wrong in the week she publicly said everyone gets it wrong
the wurst is not, so long as we can say, this is the wurst, by @sebsb nytimes.com/athletic/7671530…
James Hansen retweeted
Spent a few weeks earlier this year roaming a Hollywood almost entirely reoriented around the production of “microdramas,” which are kind of like soap operas except they’re short and completely demented and optimized for your phone. Started as one kind of sad story and ended as another, differently sad kind of story. You can read it now in @NYTmag nytimes.com/2026/10/06/magaz…
playing every other day at the quarterfinal stage and then compressing semifinals and final into two days remains the stupidest thing about atp / wta 1000 scheduling (at the events that do it)
coco gauff told her team that she couldn't see the ball and felt like she was going to pass out during her loss to elise mertens at the china open.
she was down 6-3, 4-1 at the time; it finished 6-3, 6-3 for mertens' first win over gauff in six tries
nytimes.com/athletic/7667936…
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There's so much we don't know much about Sinner's knee but I sure have trouble reflexively blaming the calendar.
He (smartly!) played no AO lead-ins, 1 event in Feb, no clay 500s, no Wimbledon lead-ins. Nine events in 6.5 months.
That's what a scaled back schedule looks like.
jannik sinner ends 2026 with a 44-3 record, a wimbledon title, a 30-match win streak, five consecutive masters 1000 titles and a key place in the endless discourse about whether or not every injury can be attributed to the schedule
nytimes.com/athletic/7665062…
