Week 29, 2025

ATP Events This Week: Washington 500, Kitzbuhel 250, Umag 250

WTA Events This Week: Washington 500, Prague 250

• Episode One Of Aryna’s Arena

  More: This will be an episodic YouTube series following the current world No. 1. Yahoo reported on the show’s launch, here.

  Context: In January Sabalenka left her agency IMG to join Stuart Duguid under the EVOLVE umbrella. Duguid and his other client Naomi Osaka co-founded the studio Hana Kuma, which is producing this series.

• Rune Reports Back After 3-Day Stint With Agassi

  More Rune Coaching News: Marco Panichi to join Rune’s team as a fitness coach. Panichi previously worked with Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner.

• Closing Out Wimbledon With Steve Flink

  Why It’s Interesting: Hall-of-Fame tennis writer Steve Flink joins Gill to wrap up coverage of Wimbledon 2025.

• Wimbledon Confirms Player/Tournament Discussions Took Place

  Why It’s Interesting: Top players are pressing the Grand Slam organizations for more prize money, contributions to pensions, healthcare and maternity leave and negotiating power in scheduling decisions.

• This Video Essay Captures Genie Bouchard’s Unprecedented Career Arc

  Her Retirement Post: See here

• Wimbledon Expansion Set To Proceed Following Dismissed Legal Challenge

• Ons Jabeur To Step Away From Tennis

  The Mental Health Beat: Peter Bodo of Tennis.com covers therapy and tennis in this article and Reem Abulleil wrote a piece on player burnout in response to Jabeur’s announcement.

• Leaving You With Maria Sharapova’s Hot Ones Interview

  Full Episode: News: See here.

On Monday Match Analysis, Gill is joined by former No. 11 Sam Querrey to discuss the pro tennis topics that nobody talks about. How do clothing and racket sponsorships really work? Are players really forced to play most weeks? When did online abuse become a major problem? Was the old "no coaching" rule actually ignored? Why is it so hard to get players to do podcasts? That, and so much more on this very fun and special show.

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