Week 38, 2025

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Gill Gross & Ben Ornstein
September 23, 2025

ATP Events This Week: Beijing 500, Tokyo 500

WTA Events This Week: Beijing 1000

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  • Former WTA #52 Claire Liu Shares Stories Of Racial Bias On Tour

    Why It’s Interesting: On her personal Substack, she describes being snubbed on official social media accounts and being regularly misidentified as other Asian players.

Asian Invasion

Cutting it close on AAPI month

claireliu.substack.com/p/asian-invasion

  • Grand Slams Added To PTPA Lawsuit Against Tennis Governing Bodies

Tennis Slams to be sued by players

The four Slams to be added as defendants to existing lawsuit against ATP, WTA

danielkaplan.substack.com/p/tennis-slams-to-be-sued-by-players?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

  • Williams Sisters Podcast Launches

    More: Here’s an excerpt about brutal honesty. Listen to the full Stockton Street podcast between Serena and Venus here.

  • Business Talk With Federer And Agent Tony Godsick

    Why It’s Interesting: Gone are the days of Federer on ESPN, here are the days of Federer on CNBC. They speak on the evolution of the Laver Cup, the post big-3 era and the massive On deal.

  • Amidst Laver Cup Debate, Bounces Dissects “Exhibitions” With Scientific Detail

Laver Cup and the Exhibition Controversies in Tennis

Events like Laver Cup work desperately to shed the label, but what is so bad about an "exhibition" in tennis, anyway?

www.benrothenberg.com/p/laver-cup-2025-exhibition-official-atp-rules

  • Karue Sell Practices With Grigor Dimitrov

    Why It’s Interesting: Satisfying slices, “unstructured tennis”, and courtside chit chat.

  • Matthew Willis Deep Dives Into Federer’s Comments About Modern Court Speed

    Roger’s Comments: See here.

  • Leaving You With The US Open’s Jaw-Dropping Honey Deuce Record Sales

On The Mailbag, Gill responds to your comments, including: why did the 90s gen fail to rack up major titles, remembering the career of Kevin Anderson, why Daniil Medvedev has accomplished more than Alexander Zverev, is Jannik Sinner right to work on his predictability, can tennis become more popular in the United States, should coaches partake in press conferences, is Davis Cup marketed poorly, which young players have elite athleticism, why players from Slam Nations have an advantage, Victoria Mboko evaluation, breaking down Ben Shelton's room for improvement and the state of Stefanos Tsitsipas.

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