Week 36, 2024

The last time the same man and women won both the Australian Open and US Open in the same year was 1988 (Wilander & Graff). Here’s what we found interesting this week:

• Great Player Features From Week 2 of the US Open

  The Guardian Unpacks The Taylor Fritz Story: See here

  Giri Nathan on The Joy Of Watching Karolina Muchova: See here

  Pete Bodo On How Jessica Pegula Is Improving at 30: See here

• ATP-WTA Merger Expected in 2025

  How Does it Affect You: This would likely bring women’s tennis to the company that runs TennisTV (ATP Media) and improve access to advanced stats in WTA tennis.

  Follow The Money: The ATP makes about four times the revenue that the WTA does (specific figures are in the piece), so any deal between the two will favor the ATP.

• Crazy Slam Trends In Men’s Tennis

• Andrea Petkovic Reflects After 3 Weeks In NY

  Why It’s Interesting: We’ve shared Petko’s writing in The Draw before, because it’s consistently great. Here, she writes on why the theme of this year’s US Open was resilience, what it was like to be courtside while Jack Draper vomited uncontrollably and how Nick Kyrgios’s Twitter presence undermines his commentary.

• Who Doesn’t Like Watching These?

• Wertheim On Everything

  Why It’s Interesting: 50 thoughts are a lot of thoughts, so if you need help reminiscing on everything that went down in the last two weeks, this is your piece.

• Sinclair Removes Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon

• Latest Tsitsipas Family Drama

  What Happened?: The Tsitsipas’s have taken legal action against former physiotherapist Jérôme Bianchi for his comments to L'Equipe.

• Federer’s Joins Today Show to Talk Biography

  Where To Find It: You can buy it here.

🎙️ Announcing: Gill has early morning Davis Cup commentary on Tennis Channel this week Tuesday-Friday and Sunday. Plus, T2 on Saturday.

On this week’s edition of Monday Match Analysis Gill dives into Jannik Sinner's straight set win over Taylor Fritz in the 2024 US Open men's final. The victory clinched Sinner's second major title of both his season and his career. He gets into the historical significance of Sinner's hard court excellence, how his movement gave him freedom, his answer for Fritz's big serve, his forehand inside-in and where the doping controversy leaves his legacy.

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