Before addressing several far more trivial topics, it’s worth discussing the event on everyone’s minds.
• It’s a week old now, but note that the Cincinnati event will stay in Cincinnati; an announcement that has met with great praise and relief throughout the Republic of Tennis. In a perfect world, the tennis interest of Charlotte is repaid and that Queen City gets a smaller event.A lot of the questions and comments this week pertained to the terror attacks in Israel and how tennis is directly and indirectly affected.
• Can we all agree … it’s a disguised blessing that the WTA is not holding its flagship event in Saudi Arabia later this month, as planned/hoped. While the WTA may soon announce that the Finals will be held in Saudi for 2024 to ’26, world events will not allow for the significance and symbolism of this decision to be easily minimized.
Players quick to weigh in on X were silent here. Players supportive of Y in one context were suddenly in support of ZWhat if a player refused to compete against a LGBTQ opponent? Or a Black opponent? What if an Indian refused to play a Pakistani? Or vice versa In the cases of both sports gambling and Saudi Arabia, there are loud pro and con voices. The case for engagement is quite similar:
As for the flip side … Holger Rune has simply hit a wall. There is a finite amount of top-tier tennis even the stars can play. Rune is clearly cooked. I would submit that Stefanos Tsitsipas is far more of a concern.
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