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The first week of Roland Garros has delivered plenty of drama, both on and off the court. While players continue to press Grand Slam organizers over prize money and revenue sharing, the tournament has also sparked conversations about heat, officiating, tennis history, and the culture surrounding the sport.
Jannik Sinner might have a heat problem, but tennis...
Many of the most valuable experiences in tennis are difficult to replicate outside tournament environments. That reality becomes increasingly obvious the longer a player spends navigating both league and tournament ecosystems. League tennis provides recurring local competition, social continuity, and structured team engagement. Tournament tennis provides something very diffe...
USTA League captains and volunteer coordinators perform an extraordinary amount of labor to make adult tennis function. The laundry list of tasks they provide are routinely under appreciated by most players. Forming leagues, recruiting players, coordinating schedules, negotiating availability, arranging courts, exchanging lineups, managing rainouts, and navigating complex in...
A reader recently left a comment on my site expressing the idea that tournament tennis is considerably more expensive than playing leagues. I can certainly understand why many people have that opinion. One of the primary factors contributing to that sentiment is that, on the surface, tournament entry fees are higher than the cost of registering for a league. The “sticker sho...
Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis was originally released in October 2022. Ever since then I have intended to review it once Roland Garros rolls around. Whenever that tournament is in full swing, tennis fans repeatedly hear the name Suzanne Lenglen through the steady stream of matches played on the court named in her honor. My theory is that it might...