“Ain’t No Party Like a Linz Player Party:” A Retrospective
Austrian hospitality at its finest. [...]
Sabine Lisicki
Island Idols Power Rankings: September 21
How did the players stack up as the Tours move East? Nicholas Nemeroff ranks the best (and worst) in Tokyo, Guangzhou, and Metz. [...]
Semi-Superlatives: Analyzing the Final Four Wimbledon Women
It’s been that kind of major tournament, kids. The kind that’s starting to happen more often, but still feels novel enough not to cause Chaos Fatigue (the likes [...]
“Ready, Play” (Part I): Les Émotions – A Look Back at Last Year’s Wimbledon Final
Embed from Getty Images We are fast approaching the one-year anniversary of a match that punctuated the most punk-rock Wimbledon Championships of the Open Era. Despite losing [...]
Simona Halep and the Power of Perspective
Embed from Getty Images She’ll be back. It was spoken with a Schwarzeneggerian certainty, a reassurance echoed as Roland Garros finalist Simona Halep hid under a towel. [...]
Marion Bartoli: More Than “Still A Weirdo”
Embed from Getty Images In the hours and days following Marion Bartoli’s maiden Grand Slam win, pundits and commentators have been hard at work spinning the wheel of [...]
The Tennis Island 