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Bill Simons Full of unblinking belief, blasting free with a  stats-be-damned confidence, Alexander Zverev unloaded with a forehand winner to the corner, astonishing Jannik Sinner and the tennis universe, as he took the first-set tiebreaker of today’s Wimbledon final 9-7. Suddenly, a shelf-load of statistics crashed to the floor. Long ago, a legend quipped, “Nobody [&#...

Bill Simons As Wimbledon began today, how could you not reflect on Martina Navratilova, sitting in red in the Royal Box? The godmother of Czech tennis once spit at tyranny, then kickstarted an imaginative yet steely legacy of Czech wizardry – a tennis tradition like no other. Grit inspires – so today, we had the […]

Bill Simons Whenever Novak Djokovic enters a tennis tournament, records will be broken and questions will be asked. Again we wondered: can he, after eleven tries, at last win his 25th Slam? There has to be a dicey moment or two – right? He wasn’t defaulted or booted out of the country, but he did […]

Bill Simons Tennis is both cruel and amazing. Two players from vastly different backgrounds stand alone on gritty back courts or on the grandest stages the game offers with the understanding that there are many ways to prevail. Take Coco Gauff. She has lightning speed, a warrior’s fighting spirit and an ability to shake off […]

Bill Simons Stanford’s now in the ACC. So they’re road warriors, used to going to far-flung cities like Blacksburg, Virginia, and Tallahassee, Florida. So it wasn’t that big a deal when Stanford tennis coach Paul Goldstein booked a flight to London to be by the side of his protege Arthur Fery, who had pulled off […]