Week 12, 2025

Miami 1000 — Week 2

• The PTPA Files Lawsuits Against Tennis’ Governing Bodies

  Why It’s Interesting: Why is the lawsuit happening, what does it claim, do the complaints have merit, and how might this play out long-term? Gill tries to answer all those questions in this breakdown.

  Player Perspectives: Alexander Zverev just wants everyone to get along. Alcaraz doesn’t support it. PTPA Co-Founder Djokovic straddles the fence.

  More: Matthew Willis shares the full court filing.

  Even More: Ben Rotherberg’s in-depth interview with PTPA Executive Director Ahmad Nassar.

• Investigating ATP Second Serve Trends

  Why It’s Interesting: We featured Karue Sell’s comments about second serves earlier this year. Jeff Sackmann gives us a quantitative analysis based on Karue’s claims.

• Andrea Petkovic Writes About The Opponents That ‘Made Her Want To Cry’

  Why It’s Interesting: This blog post mixes tactical insight with off-the-wall wit in a way completely unique to “Finite Jest.”

• How Tsitsipas Changed Tennis’ Rulebook

  Why It’s interesting: Cult Tennis, one of the best YouTube channels in the sport, guides viewers on a nostalgic trip through a time when toilet breaks rose to the top of the tennis talk agenda.

• Interview Of The Week Goes To Coleman Wong

  More: Here’s the ATP’s written feature detailing Wong’s background.

  Also: Alexandra Eala also crushed her appearance on the TC desk. She also hails from a non-traditional tennis nation, has youthful exuberance and has herself a breakthrough result in Miami.

• Courtney Nguyen, WTA Insider For Nearly A Decade, Moves On

  Editor’s Note: We’ve shared Courtney’s work here often. She was without a doubt the single most consistent and prolific force in WTA press conference rooms around the world. We wish her the best in whatever is next and hope there is a valiant attempt from the WTA to fill her considerably big shoes.

• Leaving You Instagram’s Best Comedian

On This Week’s mailbag, Gill responds to your comments about the struggles of Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev, the transition from Indian Wells to Miami, the ATP's solution to tennis ball uniformity, the big picture of Jack Draper's career and more.

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