James Hansen

Arthur Rinderknech cramping up from spending too long on his haunches during his cousin's speech about sums up this Shanghai Masters

Not even the cousins final is immune to the prevailing Shanghai Masters dynamic of "one player is just out of gas"

You could not craft a more mentally frying, ironclad “that was her chance” set of circumstances, and she won the tiebreak 7-2!

Such a huge mental win for Jessica Pegula. Not just recovering from four double faults — her only four of the match! — when serving for it, but snapping Sabalenka's indomitable tiebreak streak after losing to her four times in a row, in one GS final, one GS semifinal and two 1000 finals

Feel like we've gone from unforetold levels of upset to more upset than he should be at any given moment, which bodes well for any future matches they play

I sort of agree, but don't think the 3-0, 15-40 slide to 5-4 when he broke back had much to do with that. He's talked himself into being at a tennis disadvantage that didn't really exist until the cramps properly took hold

Daniil Medvedev saying Learner Tien is "everywhere" while he is barely breaking the sidelines. This has nothing to do with physicality. He has convinced himself Tien is better than he actually is

Tennis court speed: How Roger Federer started an Alcaraz and Sinner conspiracy theory The tennis great's comments on whether slower courts benefit the two top men's players provoked heated discussion.

Why Federer's court speed commentary about Alcaraz and Sinner is sort-of-right and sort-of-wrong, and the problem with a metric which is both objectively measured by tournaments, and experienced subjectively by players

With @cdeccleshare.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...

Eva Lys’ tennis rise up the WTA Tour is built on a ‘less is more’ approach. She explains why The 23-year-old German, diagnosed with spondyloarthritis in 2020, cracked the world’s top 50 for the first time this week.

After a diagnosis of spondyloarthritis 5 years ago, Eva Lys has to manage her body carefully. Which is one of the hardest things to do as an athlete.

She explains her ‘less is more’ approach, and why she won’t stay quiet on issues like inequality ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

Carlos Alcaraz's break-point shot selections in this match against Taylor Fritz and the previous one against Casper Ruud have been ... Interesting

Carlos Alcaraz’s tennis brilliance on grass and at Wimbledon, explained by two seconds Alcaraz's tennis is so often a highlight reel but on grass, he does his most devastating work in the negative spaces of points.

A lot of Carlos Alcaraz's trademark, bullet-time backhand slices to turn points from defense to attack against Zizou Bergs today.
@mattfutterman.bsky.social wrote about the shot — and the negative space in which Alcaraz flips the script — during Wimbledon www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...

The Carlos Alcaraz experience

Alcaraz's shot selection today has been frankly abominable

There we go

Anisimova's backhand down the line is her kill shot and she lost all confidence in it after the first game. So many clear opportunities to go into space that she declined on very makeable balls

Best match of the tournament so far in terms of liquid tennis and it isn't close

He spent half an Aus Open conference earlier this year dispelling this notion after serving 215 at 40 percent against Michelsen

Don't know if it's reassuring or tragic that Taylor Fritz once again knows exactly what he did wrong against Novak Djokovic.

Yes, the break points, but as he points out in his news conference, he made the wrong decision at 0-15, 0-30 and 15-30 several times over.

If I were a broadcaster I would give Anisimova her chance ;)

Carlos Alcaraz’s tennis results and the gap between inconsistency and turbulence in sports Alcaraz's wavering focus and up-and-down matches have created a false impression of a player who is on a remarkable winning streak.

The Botic vdZ loss last year feeds into perception that Alcaraz is streaky + inconsistent. But that's the only time in his last 12 slams he hasn't reached the QFs. And he's reached the final of last 7 events.

On misconceptions and how he's improved ⬇️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

I feel like the American organisation which runs this American tournament with an American player and an American crowd could have, you know, done otherwise

With Carlos Alcaraz, you simply have to laugh

Amanda Anisimova would probably have liked an Ashe night session against Iga Swiatek, but Osaka vs. Muchová in primetime is a delight

This is tipping into embarrassing from Bublik. Sinner is playing well off the ground but the non-existent first serve, second-serve return and shot selections aren't anything to do with that

Forehand being an open skill and worse under no duress than it is under stress is the much bigger concern right now...

A lot of Naomi Osaka's upturn was new coach placebo, the improvements to her footwork and movement are real.

Tactically perfect, didn't get drawn into changing things up and going for open court which put Gauff's movement in play.

For Gauff, forehand situational weakness is bigger than serve.

The pump-fake forehand at the net from Alcaraz to go up 0-40... 🤌 🤌 🤌

The "controlled" part of controlled aggression was what was doing it for Denis Shapovalov in his Grigor Dimitrov tribute act. The potential 0-4 game pivotal

Novak Djokovic back in Alcaraz, Australian Open 2025 mode. Norrie is the kind of player that can extend rallies and work Djokovic's back issue but isn't making enough balls at the moment