Week 8, 2024

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Gill Gross & Ben Ornstein
February 27, 2024

We’ll miss you, Golden Swing. Here’s what we found interesting this week. 

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  • Eliza’s Rundown

    Why It’s Interesting: If you like a few laughs to go along with your tennis coverage, you need to follow Liza West. Here, she recaps a particularly off-the-rails week in the tennis world. Gill may or may not have been one of the “culty” Avatar fans who messaged her.

  • Jannik Sinner’s Vanity Fair Interview

    Why It’s Interesting: Hit that translate button. Jannik comes across as insanely down to earth here. I don’t think we have to worry about stardom ever distracting him from his tennis goals.

Jannik Sinner, intervista esclusiva al numero 3 al mondo: «Io numero uno? È un sogno, ma ci stiamo lavorando»

È un ragazzo di poche parole e di sane abitudini: tanto allenamento, zero distrazioni. A noi Jannik Sinner ha raccontato dell’ultima volta che ha pianto, del campione che avrebbe voluto sfidare e dell’unica cosa che gli fa perdere il controllo. E no, la racchetta non c’entra

www.vanityfair.it/article/jannik-sinner-intervista-tennis-sport-famiglia

  • Men’s Top 20 Serve Speed & Accuracy

    Why It’s Interesting: It’s really hard to evaluate spot serving with the naked eye. Thank goodness we have Tennis Insights to help us out.

  • No Instagram = ATP 250 Semi-finalist

    Why It’s Interesting: Joao Fonseca made a splash in Rio this past week. The 17 year old is clearly way more disciplined than your average teenager. We love to see it.

  • The Magic 54%

    Why It’s Interesting: All tennis players across all levels need to understand this. The players who DOMINATE still don’t win that many more points than their opponents. Thanks for the reminder, Craig.

The perfect percentage is 54%. - Brain Game Tennis

G’day, Jannik Sinner is the best player in the world today. Period. Sinner won Rotterdam yesterday with a gutsy 7-5, 6-4 victory over Alex De Minaur. He has now won 15 matches in a row and collected back-to-back titles after winning the Australian Open at the start of the year. But Sinner’s current purple patch

www.braingametennis.com/the-perfect-percentage-is-54

  • A South American Swing?

    Ben’s Take: Did you see those fans in Rio during Thiago Seyboth Wild & Joao Fonseca’s matches?! Electric!

    Gill’s Take: the only part of Murray’s tweet I disagree with is the “unpopular opinion part.” But I must say, there’s zero chance the next Masters goes to South America with Saudi Arabia still clamoring for one themselves.

This week’s Monday Match Analysis covered the championship Sunday action in Rio, Los Cabos and Doha:

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