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Week 21, 2025
Gill Gross & Ben Ornstein
May 27, 2025
Roland Garros Week 1
Tsitsipas’s Backhand Technique — Dissected
Why It’s Interesting: Hugh Clarke dives into one-handed backhand technique by comparing Tsitsipas’s inefficiencies with the likes of Federer, Wawrinka, Thiem, Gasquet, Kuerten and more.
The Stars Flex Their Leverage
Gill’s Take: This unprecedented meeting in Paris shows the sport’s stars can get to the negotiating table on their own, sans PTPA lawsuit and sans players union.
Looking Back On Novak’s Journey To 100
Why It’s Interesting: The ATP’s Arthur Kapetanakis captures the big-picture narratives throughout Djokovic’s career. Extra effort on the web page design is a bonus.
Old Balls, Please
Why It’s Interesting: A massive sustainability breakthrough.
Electric Monfils Edit
Caroline Garcia Retirement Announcement
Dear tennis,
It’s time to say goodbye.
After 15 years competing at the highest level, and more than 25 years putting pretty much every second of my life into it, I feel ready to start a new chapter.My tennis journey hasn’t always been easy. Since my early days, tennis has been
— Caroline Garcia (@CaroGarcia)
5:45 AM • May 23, 2025
Ruud Explains How Technology Shapes His Backhand
Once again, Casper is open to discussing technical aspects/limitations of his game, this time why his backhand has so much spin on it.
(That this is to do with large frame he uses has never occurred to me before.)Shout out to @tumcarayol who asked the question.
🎥 @TennisActu
— Oleg S. (@AnnaK_4ever)
9:47 PM • May 26, 2025
Leaving You With One Of Many Sinner Outfit Memes
wait a minute...
— Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel)
9:04 PM • May 26, 2025
On Monday Match Analysis, Gill discusses two Saturday finals ahead of Roland Garros Day 1 before being joined by Abigail Johnson for the final installment of the French Open Power Rankings. He covers Geneva, where Novak Djokovic won his historic 100th career title and Flavio Cobolli's comprehensive Hamburg win over Andrey Rublev. Abigail joins to share her power rankings and discuss Daniil Medvedev's stalling, Holger Rune's boom or bust season, Francisco Cerundolo's expectations, Jack Draper's clay exploits, Casper Ruud's consistency, a panic meter on Alexander Zverev, Djokovic's hard to read form and the race at the top between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.
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