Christopher Clarey 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
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Author. THE MASTER @nytimes bestseller on Federer (now updated). Writing THE WARRIOR on Nadal. Founder TENNIS & BEYOND substack. 30+years @nytsports . 100+ Slams
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Last Seen Profiles
Emma Raducanu, an 18-year-old from Britain, becomes the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam singles title. Takes the US Open with an ace to close out her 6-4 6-3 victory over Leylah Fernandez of Canada. Did not drop a set in 10 matches. One of the great tennis stories
#getty
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Rafael Nadal
Grand Slam titles: 20
Olympic gold medals: 2
Rackets smashed in anger during pro career: 0
#Getty
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One for the time capsule
📸 Antoine Couvercelle
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One of the best tennis photos of 2019
By Antoine Couvercelle
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Was this really necessary?
Novak Djokovic doing the Ben Shelton celebration 🤷🏻♂️
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Photo of the Day (II)
Coco Gauff, French Open finalist at age 18
📸Ryan Pierse
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If you know the backstory, this is more powerful than a handshake
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2018 US Open
Code violations
Men 86
Women 22
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I just asked Djokovic about this. He said he did not know the boy but he had heard the boy had been supporting him throughout the match, even offering him detailed tactics. Djokovic said if anyone deserved the racket after the final, it was him.
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Sixteen years. 59 matches between Djokovic and Nadal and the gap is only 30-29
One of the greatest rivalries in sports
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It happens so rarely, but I still think it's worth exploring. When a player withdraws this late in a Grand Slam or before a major tour final, the beaten player should be able to take the slot. In this case Fritz would play Kyrgios as a "lucky loser".
The show must go on
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Week two will belong to someone else but week one belonged to this man
Gave it all at all hours
#getty
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Photo of the day. The Osaka sisters at the US Open in the early 2000s (click on the image, which is courtesy of Naomi Osaka in the NYT)
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Photo of the Day
Chris & Martina. After all these years & challenges
📸 Marvin Joseph
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Pure Venus Williams tonight after her doubles win with Jamie Murray
Q. Are you here for the experience or are you going
to go all the way?
VENUS: Are you going to write a good article
or a halfway decent one?
Q. I'm going to do what I usually do.
VENUS: Us to
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Taylor Fritz calls the new trial allowing in-match coaching on the ATP Tour "a dumb rule" and says he's not using it
I asked him why it's dumb (and agree 100 percent with his answer):
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Copy of letter sent by WTA chief Steve Simon to the Chinese Ambassador to the United States about Peng Shuai
"Simply put, the WTA is at a crossroads in China. I hope I can rely on you to convey these messages to the leadership in China so this issue can be resolved"
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We report that Maria Sharapova is retiring from pro tennis at age 32. Not weary of the game but tired of fighting her body. Once No. 1, she won 5 Slam singles titles & earned tens of millions on & off the court. By force of will & personality she was one of the game’s true stars
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"I’m going to be at Wimbledon if my body is ready to be at Wimbledon…..nobody wants to miss Wimbledon"
Rafael Nadal
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Photo of the Night
Big Three
📸Glyn Kirk
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Year-end Top Three
2007 Federer Nadal Djokovic
2008 Nadal Federer Djokovic
2009 Federer Nadal Djokovic
2010 Nadal Federer Djokovic
2011 Djokovic Nadal Federer
2014 Djokovic Federer Nadal
2018 Djokovic Nadal Federer
2019 Nadal Djokovic Federer
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No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz, 20, no longer the youngest man in the top 50.
Frenchman Arthur Fils, 19, will be ranked 46 on Monday after his run to the semis in Hamburg
#getty
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"If I came back to play on clay it must have been to play Rafa" - Federer says
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Not a lot of
#tennis
superstars would stop to do this after a loss as deflating as that.Hats off to Iga Swiatek
#wimbledon
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Are 35-year-old legs really going to outrun 25-year-old legs over 5 sets?
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You wonder what athletes struggling well past their prime are still playing for
Gael Monfils just gave us the answer
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For the first time since 2002, the men's singles champion at
#Wimbledon
is not named Federer, Djokovic, Nadal or Murray
A new era begins
#getty
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Really disturbing to see Kyrgios smash a racket in defeat (after the handshake) that rebounds and comes very close to hitting a ballboy. This stuff needs to stop, and he's not alone
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Nadal
noun
1. a Spanish tennis player who will fight no matter the score and usually find a way to win
2. clay
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Photo of the day
Surprise finalist
📸 Mark Metcalfe
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Of all the stats of Serena Williams's career this might be my favorite
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Her record in Grand Slam women's doubles finals (all with Venus)
#getty
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It's been one year since Kikkan Randall won Olympic gold; 9 months since she discovered she had breast cancer, less than a month since her last radiation treatment. And she just finished 12th in Saturday's 50 Kilometer American Birkebeiner race. Remarkable
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This match may not be remembered this way but no one who follows tennis should forget how well Naomi Osaka played in her first Grand Slam final. Marvelous, poised, powerful performance.
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Novak Djokovic 20
Roger Federer 20
Rafael Nadal 20
And what if it stayed that way?
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Novak Djokovic is 35 years old today and still No. 1
One of the most remarkable athletes of this age or any age
#getty
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A couple things clear to me after that men's final
Best of 5 is worth fighting for
In-match coaching is not worth fighting for
There's a purity and, every once in a while, majesty to letting the best players in the world problem solve, long form
#getty
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Sue Barker: Does your first Grand Slam final make you hungry for more?
Nick Kyrgios: Absolutely not. I'm so tired.
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Federer by 32d birthday
17 Grand Slam singles titles. 21 Masters 1000 singles titles. 302 weeks No. 1
Nadal by 32d birthday
16 GS singles titles. 32 Masters 1000 titles. 175 weeks No. 1
Djokovic by 32d birthday
15 GS singles titles. 33 Masters 1000 titles. 252 weeks No. 1
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Photo of the day
Sam Kerr's wonder goal
📸 Cameron Spencer
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Back in the Day
Rafa & Roger
📸 Antoine Couvercelle
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Talked to Roger Federer about his travels with "Norman" - his nickname for the Australian Open tropy
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Photo of the Day
207th-ranked Noma Noha Akugue, a 19-year-old from Germany, tears up after unexpectedly reaching her 1st WTA Tour semifinal. It comes in her country
📸 Marcus Brandt
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Anyone wondering why Federer keeps bothering with tennis with four kids and gazillions in the bank at age 38.
It's for a moment like tonight
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Kyrgios vs the current ATP top 8
2-1 vs Medvedev
4-3 vs Zverev
2-0 vs Djokovic
3-6 vs Nadal
1-1 vs Ruud
3-1 vs Tsitsipas
0-0 vs Alcaraz
2-1 vs Rublev
Current Kyrgios ranking: 65
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The Djokovic hearing continues and 127 other tennis players would like to know at what time they are playing tomorrow at the Australian Open
How long can they be kept waiting?
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Denis Shapovalov & Felix Auger-Aliassime go way back
📸 by the inimitable Tom Tebbutt
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A Medvedev title in Australia would take him to No. 2 in the rankings. Nobody not named Djokovic, Federer, Nadal or Murray has been in the top two in men's tennis for 16 years....
#getty
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Note to Serena Williams & Roger Federer
Martina Navratilova won her last Grand Slam title at age 49
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Photo of the Day
Maria Sakkari serves
📸 Tim Clayton
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Gabriela Sabatini, one of tennis's great prodigies, turns 50. A shy person who had to learn to accept the limelight, she was part of some of the most memorable matches of the late 80s and early 90s. She remains an icon in Argentina, which has been marking the occasion all week
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Back in the day
For the first time since 1996, there will be no Federer or Venus at
#Wimbledon
📸 Clive Brunskill
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Federer's career winning percentage in singles: 82%
(1233-268)
His winning percentage in 2019: 86%
(49-8)
He is 38 years old
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Shot of the day
And Djokovic won the point
📸Adam Pretty
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"I promise I will come back one day and win this tournament"
Ons Jabeur through the tears
#getty
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Medvedev not getting nearly as much love in Laver Arena as he deserves for some of this shotmaking
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Winning percentage in Grand Slam singles finals
Nadal 20-8 (71.4%)
Federer 20-11 (64.5%)
Djokovic 18-10 (64.3%)
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Federer’s craziest stat: never retired from any singles or doubles match on tour. 1526 singles matches. 223 doubles. Connors only man to play more tour singles matches retired from 14. Djokovic 13; Nadal 9
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Lovey, eloquent speech from Danielle Collins at what is surely a difficult moment. She has come a long way and did herself proud there. Two thumb's up
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Just arrived in Rome to hear a slightly exasperated Nadal on the now-very-frequent comparisons between 19-year-old Alcaraz and 19-year-old Nadal
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Touching, open press conference from Coco Gauff, still wiping away the tears but comfortable enough in her skin to share her hopes and vulnerabilities despite the disappointment. A remarkable 18-year-old or better yet, just remarkable period
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Photo of the Day
Lost to Sinner. Beat Gravity
📸 Al Bello
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Djokovic: Not only the No. 1 player in men's tennis, he's the No. 1 linguist in men's tennis
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"It probably hurts more than any loss I ever had"
Taylor Fritz
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Photo of the Day
New Indian Wells champ Taylor Fritz and his mom Kathy, a former top 10 tour player
📸Clive Brunskill
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Open era men's leaders
Singles titles
1 Connors 109
2 Federer 103
Singles finals
1 Connors 164
2 Federer 157
Singles semifinals
1 Connors 240
2 Federer 209
Singles matches played
1 Connors 1556
2 Federer 1503
Singles matches won
1 Connors 1274
2 Federer 1235
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Touching words from retiring Frenchman Gilles Simon after his final match on tour: a loss to Felix Auger Aliassime at the Paris Masters.
In his farewell speech, Simon saved his wife Carine Lauret for last:
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So if Valieva finishes second or third they are going to deny the cloud-free Olympic gold medalist a ceremony and the anthem and the memories? Bad call, the latest bad call
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"After the match I think she proved she’s a true athlete. For me the definition of an athlete is someone who on the court treats you like their worst enemy but after they treat you like you're their best friend. And I think that's what she did today" - Coco Gauff on Naomi Osaka
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So clearly the most effective way to beat Novak is to play best-of-one
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Someone just messaged me this:
"Even if Nadal withdraws from Roland Garros, he can still win it"
However irrational, I understand the sentiment
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As things stand, 99 of the top 100 men's singles players in the world are vaccinated
The only outlier: Novak Djokovic
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Photo of the day
Venus Williams, 43 years young
6-4, 7-5 over 14th-ranked Veronika Kudermetova
📸Aaron Doster
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Nadal also confirms that he and his wife "if all goes well" will soon be parents
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Kyrgios has been given plenty of chances through the years and been cut plenty of slack by the tour. He is not a kid anymore. His misbehavior on court is a clear pattern of behavior. ATP is right to crack down
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"I wish everyone could have my parents because they always let me choose whatever I wanted to, even when I was younger. I made also some other sports and they never put pressure on me, and I wish this freedom is possible for as many young kids as possible"
Jannik Sinner
#getty
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Nadal. One. Game. Away. Which. Is. Really. Quite. Phenomenal. In. Light. Of. Where. He. Was. About. Two. Hours. Ago.
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Great shot of Wimbledon qualifying at Roehampton
Old school proximity
📸 David Gray/AELTC
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This has to stop. The more you let it slide or slap it on the wrist the more it will increase. This, in my book, should be an automatic default, even if, as in Indian Wells or here, the ballperson dodged the racket.
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Back in the Day
Serena & Guga. 25 years ago. Key Biscayne.
📸 Paul Popper
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