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  • Tennis Is Still Cool

    Why It’s Interesting: New data from the Aspen Institute shows tennis is one of only two major sports with meaningful growth among teens over the last decade.

  • How Much Prize Money Do Top Doubles Players Make?

    Hint: Julian Cash out-earned Ugo Humbert last year.

  • How Important Is The 0-0 Point?

    Why It’s Interesting: This is peak tennis stat nerd dome. A dissection of tennis score trends based on 170,000 matches scraped from the Tennis Abstract match database.

I trained a neural network on 170,000 tennis games to find which points actually matter : r/tennis

I scraped Jeff Sackmann's Match Charting Project (170K service games) and trained an LSTM/transformer to predict hold probability at every point. Some findings surprised me. Some confirmed what tennis players already know. Details in captions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/1q01e0b/i_trained_a_neural_network_on_170000_tennis_games/

  • World Number ~1500, Felix Mishker, Breaks Down Finances

    Why It’s Interesting: We’ve seen (and shared) a lot of content spotlighting financial hardships at the Challenger level. The Futures Circuit says, hold my beer.

  • Guardian Film Critic Praises Goolagong

    The Basics: This 3-part drama, which premiered Sunday on ABC, is based on the true story of Evonne Goolagong’s rise to stardom from humble upbringings as a small-town Australian Aboriginal.

Goolagong review – ABC drama about Australian tennis legend is deeper than most sporting biopics

Newcomer Lila McGuire is outstanding as the former world No 1, her story unfolding over three well-paced, captivating and graceful episodes

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/04/goolagong-tv-show-review-abc-drama-australian-tennis-legend

  • Arthur Fils Vlog Launch

    Why It’s Interesting: You don’t usually see this part. In the debut of his new YouTube channel, Arthur Fils talks through his lingering injuries and the patience required to start over.

  • Leaving You With The 13-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Hit Backhands

On Monday Match Analysis Gill Gross welcomes Jose Moron of Punto de Break to get the inside scoop on the biggest story of the off-season: Juan Carlos Ferrero's departure from the Carlos Alcaraz camp. They discuss how and why the relationship fractured and what Samu Lopez might bring moving forward.

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Hey everyone, Gill Gross here. While I’m grateful for any amount of success I’ve had talking tennis on the internet for the past half decade, I believe we should all be doing better in this sport as creators and as fans. The tennis content economy is far behind other sports by metrics of engagement and popularity. This newsletter is our effort to DRAW the great things we find in tennis every week- we search for content that teaches us, makes us think, makes us laugh and ultimately makes loving this sport the best possible experience. Our vision is to speed up the growth of a robust content economy in tennis, for the benefit of fans, players and creators alike.