Matthew Futterman
Tennis Writer at The Athletic
Sports journalist, occasional marathoner, skeptic
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Futterman
At first glance, the venue map for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics looks like a microcosm of Southern California development, sprawling in nearly every direction. In an interview Tuesday after the LA28 organizing committee unveiled its revised map, Reynold Hoover, the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who is the group's chief executive, insisted there was a method to what might look like mad sprawl. "We've clustered venues together," Hoover said from Los Angeles.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Futterman
Few players indulge in the metaphors of clay-court tennis like Stefanos Tsitsipas. The crushed red brick is both a field of play and a canvas. With every set, and every match, that canvas is swept clean, offering an opportunity to paint a new picture or to tell a new story. "A cleansing of the soul," the Greek said of the process, a few years back at the French Open in Paris. When he walks onto a clean red clay court, the footing of his youth, Tsitsipas feels a sense of peace.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Futterman
The king is dead, long live the king. As tennis moves to clay courts for the next few months, one of the sport's greatest on the surface will be abscent for the first time in two decades. A clay-court swing without Rafael Nadal seemed implausible for so long, but now it has arrived. In his absence, a cast of men's tennis characters will be looking to take up the mantle, while on the women's side, another clutch of players will be looking to topple the contemporary queen of clay, Iga Świątek.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Futterman
Coco Gauff, ranked as the highest-paid female athlete in the world by Forbes, is switching talent agencies. In a social media post Wednesday evening, Gauff announced the launch of her venture, Coco Gauff Enterprises, with WME, the talent representation entity that controls IMG and represents some of the biggest stars in sports. Gauff, 21, had worked with Team8, the boutique agency that Roger Federer launched with his longtime agent, Tony Godsick, for the entirety of her career.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Futterman
NEW YORK - It's early afternoon Tuesday, and Mikaela Shiffrin is sitting at the bar in a midtown Manhattan hotel, sipping tap water and noshing on shoestring fries - and talking about getting back onto the snow very soon. She's five days removed from finishing her injury-interrupted season with her record-breaking 101st World Cup win, in the slalom at the World Cup finals at the Sun Valley Resort in Ketchum, Idaho.
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It’s the season of Stefanos @TheAthletic Stefanos Tsitsipas, the endless rebirth of tennis on clay, and the beauty of a swept court https://t.co/WAioVbaRMB
Coco makes a big move. @TheAthletic Coco Gauff switching agencies, launching Coco Gauff Enterprises with WME https://t.co/3F4wud5dPB
Mikaela Shiffrin’s season just ended — and she’s raring to get back on snow. @TheAthletic For Mikaela Shiffrin, the Olympic season has already started https://t.co/DZ4kxewnEK