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Week 45, 2025
Gill Gross & Ben Ornstein
November 11, 2025
ATP Events This Week: ATP Finals
Breakthrough Newsletter Critiques Barriers To Content Creation In Tennis
Why It’s Interesting: Jessica Schiffer argues that tennis is protecting its rights… but losing its relevance.
Hard Court: It’s our mission at The Draw to highlight new sources of great tennis content, and this is one of those. Schiffer’s newsletter is a relatively new venture. She’s already an accomplished storyteller in culture, fashion and business so it’s particularly exciting to see her launch a tennis-focused Substack. The latest post is a lengthy and fruitful interview with Taylor Fritz’s longtime physio Wolfgang Oswald.
A Different Kind Of Comeback Story
Why It’s Interesting: The former No. 32 opens up about losing her passion for the game and what made her want to step back on court.
Indian Wells Dethroned In 2025 ATP Tournament Awards
What The WTA Gained And Lost In Saudi Arabia
Why It’s Interesting: The WTA found what it’s been chasing for years — funding and stability for its signature event — but, not without sacrifices.
More From The Athletic: What Happened To Swedish Tennis?
Jack Draper Longform Interview On The Tennis Podcast
Why It’s Interesting: Draper talks through some of the highs and lows of the year, updates on his preparation for next season, and delves deep into the current scheduling issues on the ATP Tour. Draper actually initiated the interview via Instagram DM, not the other way around. Cheers to that.
Morgan Riddle Visualizes The Grueling Tennis Travel Schedule
@moorrgs season 5 ☑️🤍
Rolex Paris Masters Gives Us a Ballperson POV
ATP Unveils New Logo Ahead Of 2026 Season
Leaving You With The ATP Finals 2025 Cheat Sheet
Correction: Musetti’s overall record should be 16-19.
On Monday Match Analysis Gill runs through the ATP Finals groups and makes predictions before welcoming Brad Gilbert onto the show. They discuss Felix Auger-Aliassime's surprise surge, Jack Draper's deflating injury, Novak Djokovic's upcoming decision to play or not to play, why Jannik Sinner has outperformed Carlos Alcaraz indoors and much more!
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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.