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Week 45, 2024
Gill Gross & Ben Ornstein
November 12, 2024
We hope you beat your “bad season” allegations. Here’s what we found interesting this week:
Tennis Channel Becomes More Accessible
Why It’s Interesting: You no longer need a cable TV subscription to watch Tennis Channel. Direct-to-Consumer offerings are becoming increasingly common in the cord cutting era, as networks look to shift their business model away from the cable bundle.
Intuitive Tennis Unpacks Zverev Serve Changes
Why It’s Interesting: Zverev’s serve has always been a relative strength (yips notwithstanding), but in 2024 it has leveled up in a multitude of ways.
Why Goran Ivanisevic Chose To Work With Elena Rybakina
Why It’s Interesting: The interview also includes Goran’s thoughts on Djokovic’s future, the Alcaraz-Sinner rivalry and Sinner’s ongoing doping case.
Explaining The Italian Tennis Renaissance
Why It’s Interesting: This piece does a commendable job getting at one of the most urgent questions in tennis. What is in the water in Italy? Fans want to know out of curiosity, rival nations will want to know so they can start emulating.
Media Warns Gauff of Incoming Direct Deposit
Why It’s Interesting: After watching this, it’s easy to believe Gauff when she says she never plays for money.
More Coco Content: Reem Abulleil, author of this tweet, wrote our favorite feature on Gauff all week, touching on changes in her life, lessons from the tour and dealing with criticism.
Coco Gauff's reaction when she found out she made a record $4.805 million was gold
"okurrrr😂"
📰thenationalnews.com/sport/tennis/2…
#WTAFinals
— Reem Abulleil (@ReemAbulleil)
9:20 AM • Nov 10, 2024
Medvedev Vents Post-ATP Finals Loss
Why It’s Interesting: The former US Open champ is at his wits end with conditions that he feels make it impossible to finish points effectively without “Alcaraz or Sinner” power
When I say Daniil is not motivated these days this is what I'm talking about. Here he's explaining why he's been struggling this szn and doesn't win easily like he used to do
— ᵛᵉⁿᵒᵐ ◥ ◤ (@RUBL3D3V)
2:09 AM • Nov 11, 2024
ATP Drops A Limited Edition Memorabilia Collection Drop
Why It’s Interesting: The memorabilia game in tennis is severely lacking. Players don’t wear jerseys and most don’t have logos, so we’ve got to be creative.
ATP Finalists Talk About Their Inspirations Outside Of Tennis
Fascinating answers
(via @VogueRunway)
— Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan)
3:08 PM • Nov 10, 2024
Foe Rolls In These Circles
On Monday Match Analysis, Gill answers your comments, including: why is Novak Djokovic still yet to hire a coach, will his former coach Goran Ivanisevic help Elena Rybakina, will there be a new slam winner in 2025 and who is most likely, why has Stefanos Tsitsipas struggled this year, how will Carlos Alcaraz's 2024 be remembered, was Rafael Nadal or Andy Murray a better grass player, and what matters more: titles or consistency.
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