James Hansen
Senior Tennis Editor at The Athletic
Senior Editor, 🎾 @TheAthletic • Previous editing and writing in The Drift, Dirt, Vittles, Bon Appétit, Eater London • He/him
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | James Hansen
Diego Dedura-Palomero lay on the clay in Munich, soaking in something he could barely put into words. The German, 17, became the first player born in 2008 to win an ATP Tour main-draw match when his opponent, Denis Shapovalov, retired with illness. Dedura-Palomero won the first set of their Munich Open match 7-6(5) and led 3-0 in the second when Shapovalov called a doctor to the court for a medical timeout.
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nytimes.com | James Hansen
Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, Ben Shelton caused some drama on the doubles court, the U.S. Billie Jean King Cup team dealt with a string of withdrawals and one player was very honest about the "bulls-" that can accompany tennis matches. If you'd like to follow our fantastic tennis coverage, click here. Is this doubles player really 'so soft'? "It's doubles, bro'.
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nytimes.com | James Hansen
Across 20 years of dominance on clay, Rafael Nadal never once served an opponent a double bagel - a 6-0, 6-0 defeat. The contemporary queen of clay, Iga Świątek, has done it four times and counting on the WTA Tour. In the first clay-court season without Nadal since 2003, and across 44 minutes in Monaco, Alex de Minaur did what he could not and boiled and baked Grigor Dimitrov to reach the semifinals of the Monte Carlo Masters.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | James Hansen
If a player hits a running trick shot to save a break point, but later gets broken off three unforced errors and a double fault, is it good tennis? For Carlos Alcaraz, definitely. He delivered a signal example of the tension running through his documentary series, 'My Way,' just as Netflix released its trailer.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | James Hansen
The Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen, China will be held in September instead of November for at least 2025, in a move designed to support "player calendar flow," according to the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The event was previously held at the end of the tennis season, to align with the Davis Cup, its men's international team tennis equivalent. But this year's event will take place from September 16 to September 21, at the start of the run of WTA Tour events held across Asia.
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A real "if you can't handle me at my unforced errors, you don't deserve me at my down-the-line tweener break-point save" performance from Carlos Alcaraz so far
Novak Djokovic still has enough of a cushion in the rankings that he will get the chance to build his level in-major, as he has so often done. Balancing the maintenance of that cushion with the management of his body is going to define the rest of his career
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