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Flavio Cobolli’s shirt-shredding performance helped Italy to its third straight Davis Cup, and gave it another tennis hero | Tennis.com “You can never lose,” Cobolli said of playing for your country, “if you give what you have in your heart.”

“You can never lose,” Flavio Cobolli said of playing for your country, “if you give what you have in your heart.”

Cobolli’s shirt-shredding performance helped Italy to its third straight Davis Cup, and gave his nation another tennis hero www.tennis.com/news/article...

24.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

When the writer starts by describing the meeting as "at times perplexing and rich," you know bad things are coming

24.11.2025 14:07 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Flavio Cobolli’s shirt-shredding performance helped Italy to its third straight Davis Cup, and gave it another tennis hero | Tennis.com “You can never lose,” Cobolli said of playing for your country, “if you give what you have in your heart.”

“You can never lose,” Flavio Cobolli said of playing for your country, “if you give what you have in your heart.”

Cobolli’s shirt-shredding performance helped Italy to its third straight Davis Cup, and gave his nation another tennis hero www.tennis.com/news/article...

24.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hassett and Bessent and their smiling, bad-faith blather Sunday after Sunday after Sunday. TV news really can't do better than this?

23.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How much evidence do you need to call vaccine efficacy a fact?

22.11.2025 13:23 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can a Jannik Sinner-less Italy three-peat the Davis Cup at home? | Tennis.com With the ATP’s Top 2 absent, there’s room for an unlikely hero.

Davis Cup Final Preview

—Italy won’t have Jannik Sinner, but it will still have depth
—With the ATP’s Top 2 absent, there’s room for an unlikely hero
—Who will walk away with the title? www.tennis.com/news/article...

18.11.2025 13:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals takeaway: Jannik Sinner walks the walk on making changes to Carlos Alcaraz matchup | Tennis.com Sunday showed the Italian's adjustments were a success in his season finale at Turin.

Jannik Sinner said it was “on me” to add variety after his US Open loss to Carlos Alcaraz

Sinner was as good as his word in Turin. He had just the right wrinkles—a big 2nd serve here, a topspin lob there—to surprise Alcaraz and win their 2025 finale www.tennis.com/news/article...

16.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals takeaway: Jannik Sinner walks the walk on making changes to Carlos Alcaraz matchup | Tennis.com Sunday showed the Italian's adjustments were a success in his season finale at Turin.

Jannik Sinner said it was “on me” to add variety after his US Open loss to Carlos Alcaraz

Sinner was as good as his word in Turin. He had just the right wrinkles—a big 2nd serve here, a topspin lob there—to surprise Alcaraz and win their 2025 finale www.tennis.com/news/article...

16.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Always-glib @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social takes it to a new with nostalgia for the Epstein era

16.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Carlos Alcaraz meets Jannik Sinner for ATP Finals trophy | Preview, Pick, Where to Watch | Tennis.com The Spaniard is 4-1 in their season series; the Italian has won 30 straight indoor matches.

Turin Final Preview

Right now, choosing between Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner feels like choosing between 2 perfect players, each of whom has helped refine the other's game throughout 2025 www.tennis.com/news/article...

16.11.2025 00:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Carlos Alcaraz meets Jannik Sinner for ATP Finals trophy | Preview, Pick, Where to Watch | Tennis.com The Spaniard is 4-1 in their season series; the Italian has won 30 straight indoor matches.

Turin Final Preview

Right now, choosing between Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner feels like choosing between 2 perfect players, each of whom has helped refine the other's game throughout 2025 www.tennis.com/news/article...

16.11.2025 00:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals: Carlos Alcaraz vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime | Preview, Pick, Where to Watch | Tennis.com The Canadian owned their head-to-head early, but the Spaniard has since posted four consecutive straight-set wins.

Turin Semifinal Preview: Carlos Alcaraz vs. Felix Auger Aliassime

FAA has surged his way to the final four, but Alcaraz has a final face-off with Sinner in his sights www.tennis.com/news/article...

15.11.2025 03:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals: Alex de Minaur vs. Jannik Sinner | Preview, Pick, Where to Watch | Tennis.com Will the 13th time finally be the charm for the underdog Aussie against the defending champion?

Turin Semifinal Preview: Jannik Sinner vs. Alex De Minaur

"I do feel like I'm heading in the right direction" against the Top 2, De Minaur says

With an 0-12 record vs the Italian, he has a ways to go www.tennis.com/news/article...

15.11.2025 02:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who what where when why. You left out the last, and most important, one on that list

14.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals: Sinner vs. Shelton & Zverev vs. Auger-Aliassime | Previews, Picks, Where to Watch | Tennis.com Either the German or Canadian will advance out of the Bjorn Borg Group with the home favorite.

Friday Turin Previews
—Zverev and Auger Aliassime play for the final semifinal spot; Zverev leads their H2H 6-3, but FAA won their most recent match
—Sinner tries to stay perfect, while Shelton tries to win his 1st set against the Italian in 2 years www.tennis.com/news/article...

14.11.2025 02:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals: Sinner vs. Shelton & Zverev vs. Auger-Aliassime | Previews, Picks, Where to Watch | Tennis.com Either the German or Canadian will advance out of the Bjorn Borg Group with the home favorite.

Friday Turin Previews
—Zverev and Auger Aliassime play for the final semifinal spot; Zverev leads their H2H 6-3, but FAA won their most recent match
—Sinner tries to stay perfect, while Shelton tries to win his 1st set against the Italian in 2 years www.tennis.com/news/article...

14.11.2025 02:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals: Fritz vs. De Minaur & Alcaraz vs. Musetti | Previews, Picks, Where to Watch | Tennis.com All four players are in contention to advance out of the Jimmy Connors Group.

Thursday Turin Previews

All four players in the Connors Group—Alcaraz, Fritz, Musetti, De Minaur—can still make the semis, and Alcaraz can clinch the year-end No. 1 www.tennis.com/news/article...

13.11.2025 02:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Watching the late great Tatsuya Nakadai in one his early roles, as gangster Joe in Kobayashi's Black River (1957), on @criterionchannl.bsky.social

13.11.2025 02:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals: Fritz vs. De Minaur & Alcaraz vs. Musetti | Previews, Picks, Where to Watch | Tennis.com All four players are in contention to advance out of the Jimmy Connors Group.

Thursday Turin Previews

All four players in the Connors Group—Alcaraz, Fritz, Musetti, De Minaur—can still make the semis, and Alcaraz can clinch the year-end No. 1 www.tennis.com/news/article...

13.11.2025 02:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals: Alcaraz vs. Fritz & Musetti vs. de Minaur | Previews, Picks, Where to Watch | Tennis.com It doesn’t take long to get desperate at a year-end championship.

Tuesday Turin Previews
—Alcaraz vs. Fritz: The Spaniard keeps chasing No. 1; the American keeps chasing Alcaraz
—De Minaur vs Musetti: The Australian will have the court, while the Italian will have the crowd www.tennis.com/news/article...

11.11.2025 01:44 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ATP Finals: Alcaraz vs. Fritz & Musetti vs. de Minaur | Previews, Picks, Where to Watch | Tennis.com It doesn’t take long to get desperate at a year-end championship.

Tuesday Turin Previews
—Alcaraz vs. Fritz: The Spaniard keeps chasing No. 1; the American keeps chasing Alcaraz
—De Minaur vs Musetti: The Australian will have the court, while the Italian will have the crowd www.tennis.com/news/article...

11.11.2025 01:44 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Also something about the lack of momentum that a knockout draw gives you from one round to the next

10.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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How Elena Rybakina rose to a After an up-and-down season, and the coaching turmoil that came with it, she overpowered Aryna Sabalenka and won her biggest title in three years in Riyadh.

Elena Rybakina said her 2025, and the coaching turmoil that came with it, was “challenging”

How she rose to that challenge in the end, by overpowering Aryna Sabalenka and winning her biggest title in three years in Riyadh www.tennis.com/news/article...

09.11.2025 03:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And there you have Trump's superpower: He posts it anyway

09.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 ATP Finals preview: Will Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner finish year-end No. 1? | Tennis.com Plus: Taylor Fritz tries again to crack the Top 2’s code, and debutant Ben Shelton will hope to find his summer form.

ATP Finals Preview
—Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner will decide the year-end No. 1
—Taylor Fritz tries again to crack the Top 2's code
—Felix Auger Aliassime & Lorenzo Musetti look to make the most of their late qualifications www.tennis.com/news/article...

08.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There were two moments in my lifetime when the economy was considered strong for an extended period: Mid-80s Reagan boom and late-90s Clinton boom. That's it. Neither lasted more than three years.

09.11.2025 04:22 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Elena Rybakina rose to a After an up-and-down season, and the coaching turmoil that came with it, she overpowered Aryna Sabalenka and won her biggest title in three years in Riyadh.

Elena Rybakina said her 2025, and the coaching turmoil that came with it, was “challenging”

How she rose to that challenge in the end, by overpowering Aryna Sabalenka and winning her biggest title in three years in Riyadh www.tennis.com/news/article...

09.11.2025 03:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 ATP Finals preview: Will Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner finish year-end No. 1? | Tennis.com Plus: Taylor Fritz tries again to crack the Top 2’s code, and debutant Ben Shelton will hope to find his summer form.

ATP Finals Preview
—Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner will decide the year-end No. 1
—Taylor Fritz tries again to crack the Top 2's code
—Felix Auger Aliassime & Lorenzo Musetti look to make the most of their late qualifications www.tennis.com/news/article...

08.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"I feel like I belong": Amanda Anisimova builds on career breakthrough at debut WTA Finals | Tennis.com How Anisimova used her worst defeat as inspiration for her biggest wins yet.

“I feel like I belong at this point,” Amanda Anisimova says of her new place in the WTA’s elite

Only winning breeds confidence, they say. This year Anisimova proved that wrong. She used her worst defeat as inspiration to keep climbing higher www.tennis.com/news/article...

06.11.2025 20:03 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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"I feel like I belong": Amanda Anisimova builds on career breakthrough at debut WTA Finals | Tennis.com How Anisimova used her worst defeat as inspiration for her biggest wins yet.

“I feel like I belong at this point,” Amanda Anisimova says of her new place in the WTA’s elite

Only winning breeds confidence, they say. This year Anisimova proved that wrong. She used her worst defeat as inspiration to keep climbing higher www.tennis.com/news/article...

06.11.2025 20:03 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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