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You might have heard that Jannik Sinner did something in 2025 that no one has ever done before. For the first time since modern statkeeping began in 1991, he led the tour in both hold percentage and return percentage. There’s a caveat here, because Sinner missed most of the clay season, which might have dragged down his return numbers relative to the field. Still, it...

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I got an email this week, from Peter S., asking this question. There are a few reasons.

Peter zeroed in on a first-rounder at the Temuco Challenger, between Milledge Cossu and Alafia Ayeni. Ayeni is ranked 731, Cossu in the 1600s. Betting markets had Ayeni as a heavy favorite; href="https://www.tennisabstract.com/current/2025TemucoChallenger.html" target="_blank"...

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Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport, by Gabriel Allen.

In his new book, href="https://www.amazon.com/Tennis-Tension...

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Even Aryna can’t explain it

Aryna Sabalenka has won her last 18 tiebreaks. She’s 21-1 on the season. The record is so improbable, so mind-bending, that I barely know where to start.

The win streak has a precedent: Andy Roddick won 18 in a row in 2007. As f...

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