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  • 2 weeks ago | blog.google | Patrick McEnroe |Sundar Pichai |Ruth Porat |Kent Walker

    The International Tennis Hall of Fame has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture to digitize the entire archives of “American Lawn Tennis” magazine, which stopped publication in 1951. The archives feature more than 1,000 artifacts, from 650+ fully-digitized magazines to historical photographs and beyond. ITHF curated the artifacts into 36 stories that explore the history of sports journalists and illustrators, the changing role of female athletes, the transformation of advertising and more.

  • Sep 10, 2023 | yardbarker.com | Patrick McEnroe

    Carlos Alcaraz recently pulled out from the upcoming group stage ties for the 2023 Davis Cup Finals, prompting a serious question - Is the tennis calendar overburdened with team competitions? Maybe before we delve deeper into why that happened, it is pertinent to note there are five active team competitions as of 2023 . The freshly minted United Cup and the Hopman Cup, two mixed-gender tournaments have been played out this year.

  • Jun 15, 2023 | podcasts.apple.com | Patrick McEnroe

    Legendary tennis coach Rick Macci joins Holding Court. Since being portrayed in the film King Richard (about the father and coach of famed tennis players Venus and Serena Williams; Will Smith won Best Actor), Rick has been a hot podcast commodity! The list of players he's coached is amazing, besides Venus and Serena, also Roddick, Capriati, Sharapova and more. Rick talks about his background and how he became such a successful coach.

  • Jun 14, 2023 | allusanewshub.com | Patrick McEnroe

    Carlos Alcaraz had a chance to prove himself as a really great player against Djokovic at Roland Garros recently but he failed. The Spaniard didn’t lose because of his tennis but because of his mind as he simply got overwhelmed by the moment. It’s not the first time Alcaraz dealt with something like that as he spoke about pressure more than once by now. The mind is actually one thing that Djokovic does better than probably anyone, certainly a youngster who didn’t play that much.

  • Jun 8, 2023 | yardbarker.com | Patrick McEnroe

    Coco Gauff didn't have as good of a run at Roland Garros this year, losing in the quarter-final of the event and it's probably her realistic reach for now. Gauff played a really solid match against Iga Swiatek, pushing her the most she did in all of their matches so far, but ultimately Swiatek once again proved better . It was a disappointing end to her Roland Garros experience but probably a realistic one as she still has flaws in her game that she needs to take care of.