Week 37, 2025

AuthorAuthor

Gill Gross & Ben Ornstein
September 16, 2025

ATP Events This Week: Laver Cup, Chengdu 250, Hangzhou 250

WTA Events This Week: Seoul 500

  • Tennis Insights Investigates Jannik Sinner’s “Too Predictable” Claims

    Why It’s Interesting: The TennisViz team has developed a metric called core shot %, which counts every topspin groundstroke hit through the opponent’s baseline as a “core shot.” A slice, volley, angle or dropshot would be counted as variety and therefore lower the core shot %. Where does Sinner land?

  • US Open Viewership On The Rise

    More: Even after factoring in viewership calculation differences, the US Open final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner saw the highest viewership since 2015.

US Open finishes at three-year high

Up big even before "Big Data," it should be no surprise that the US Open viewership finished at a multi-year high.

www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/09/us-open-viewership-most-watched-three-years/#:~:text=The%20US%20Open%20tennis%20tournament,years%20ago%20(1.2M)

  • Aryna Sabalenka To Likely Achieve Highest Single-Season Prize Money Record

    Sabalenka’s 2025 Resume: A 56-10 record… Titles in Brisbane, Miami, Madrid and US Open. Runner-up at Australian Open, Indian Wells and Roland Garros.

  • Hilarious Rant On US Open Celebrity Ticket Giveaways

    Prime: Chris “Mad Dog” Russo is a legendary sports radio personality appearing on ESPN’s First Take. Do not take this too seriously. This is classic Russo shtick and he is best enjoyed as a pure entertainer.

  • The “Pattycake Drop Serve”

  • Marin Cilic Discusses The Drill That Helped Develop His Game

  • Iva Jovic Becomes Youngest WTA Champion In 2025 With Guadalajara 500 Title

Jovic becomes youngest champion this season with Guadalajara title

Seventeen-year-old American Iva Jovic won the first Hologic WTA Tour singles title of her career with a straight-sets win over Colombia's Emiliana Arango in Guadalajara.

www.wtatennis.com/news/4362990/jovic-becomes-youngest-champion-this-season-with-guadalajara-title

  • Leaving You With Blondecaraz PUNISHING Forehands

On Monday Match Analysis, Hall-of-Fame tennis writer Steve Flink joins Gill to wrap up coverage of US Open 2025. They break down Carlos Alcaraz’s decisive win over Jannik Sinner in the final, the trends in the head-to-head, Alcaraz’s improvements and his tendency to out-serve Sinner. They go over Novak Djokovic’s prospects moving forward and contemplate how close he is to retirement. They assess the group of players trying to close the gap on Sincaraz. They also talk about Taylor Fritz’s disappointment in the quarterfinals and finish by evaluating Felix Auger-Aliassime’s staying power.

Want to sponsor this newsletter? Reach out to [email protected].

Want to send us content? Send an email to [email protected]

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.