Week 36, 2025

ATP Events This Week: Davis Cup

WTA Events This Week: Guadalajara 500, Sao Paulo 250

• Giri Nathan On How Counterpunching And Calmness Saw Sabalenka Through

  Why It’s Interesting: It was nearly the best slamless season ever…

  More On Sabalenka: Tennis Majors deep dives on Aryna’s Triumph Of The Mind

• Hugh Clarke’s Alcaraz Def. Sinner US Open Final Debrief

  Why It’s Interesting: There are few better ways to appreciate Alcaraz’s complex and powerful tennis performance than through the appreciative eye of Clarke, armed with GIFs as ever.

• Why Tennis Viewership Data Has Networks Celebrating

  More: At Sky Sports, tennis now accounts for an audience that is 58% female, compared with just 31% across the network overall. Sky’s tennis viewership has grown 30% year-on-year, with the share of women also rising from 53% to 58%.

• Six Kings Slam Is Coming To Netflix

• They Charted Every Point Played In The 15 Sinner-Alcaraz Matches

• Some People Think He’s A Shoe

  Why It’s Interesting: Tennis legend Stan Smith sits down with NBC News' Joe Fryer and Savannah Sellers ahead of the release of his documentary Who Is Stan Smith?

• Carlos Alcaraz Grand Slam Serving Record

  Gill’s Take: Total break points faced can be a funky stat. If you are down 0-40, for example, it benefits you to be broken at love (as Alcaraz was in the final against Sinner) versus saving 8 break points and holding. But there’s no denying Alcaraz’s serve dominance - and this stat right here is definitive - Alcaraz was only broken three times all tournament, putting him in the elite company of Wimbledon Pete Sampras.

• Leaving You With Visualization Of The “Big 3” to “New 2” Transition

On Monday Match Analysis, Gill dissects Carlos Alcaraz's resounding 4-set win over Jannik Sinner in the 2025 US Open final. It's Alcaraz's 6th slam title and 2nd in New York. He starts by examining the excellence of Alcaraz's summer, his tournament run and this performance in the final. Then Gill unpacks the reasons why Alcaraz was able to do more damage on his serve and was more deadly from offensive positions than Sinner. Gill also evaluates Sinner's performance in isolation. Lastly, Gill discusses the impact of the No. 1 ranking.

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