I would consider the financial factor too: 500 level tournaments can pay very heavy appearance fees, Masters can't as far as I know. The impact this has on players' scheduling decision is often overlooked
It’s funny because this whole thread is like complaining that your hammer isnt put the screws in the hole.
But also the hammer’s makers spent like a good few years advertising it as an amazing new replacement for screwdrivers.
theonion.com/carlos-alcar... this is some kind of crossover fame #tennis
‘A shocking decision’: Carrick fumes over Martínez’s red card for hair pulling DCL has his hair pulled by Martinez in a particularly unfortunate angle
"Got the pic of the red card incident for you boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked."
Timeline of court speed rating during the Sinner v Alcaraz head-to-head
Another Sincaraz final in the books! The Monte Carlo final featured the slowest conditions this matchup has seen so far, and marks Sinner’s first win in significantly slower-than-average conditions since the Umag final in 2022
Spot on
After JD Vance campaigned for Orban it’s hard to imagine how he could fail harder after this.
He’d have to, like, be tasked with negotiating the opening the Straight of Hormuz and then somehow manage to double close it or something.
even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them
analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America
2 - Since the ATP Masters 1000 format’s introduction in 1990, Jannik Sinner has become just the second player to win Indian Wells, Miami and Monte Carlo in a season after Novak Djokovic (2015). Prime.
#RolexMonteCarloMasters
Sincaraz is the best thing in all of sports in 2026.
Going to be hard to top this female coach in the German men's fifth tier
Anyone claiming to be bored by Sinner + Alcaraz playing for #1 in the Monte Carlo final is being unserious
This is so funny
astronauts on the moon. affordable college for everybody. building a ton of housing for families. vaccines to end cancers. we can have all this cool stuff if you just vote for the people that want to do it.
we can do so much great stuff. put down your anger. great things are right there.
The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
19 - Since the format’s introduction in 1990, Jannik Sinner is now the fifth player to claim 19 consecutive ATP Masters 1000 match wins after Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Streak.
#RolexMonteCarloMasters
“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.”
I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics:
defector.com/its-time-to-...
Honestly didn't know this was the rule because I've never seen it applied
“if you didn’t give enough of a shit to write it why would I give enough of a shit to read it” is a pretty reasonable argument.
“If you didn’t give enough of a shit to code it why would I give enough of a shit to use it” is completely incoherent
Did Victor Glover attend Cal Poly on a wrestling scholarship & later play on the football team? Yup. Was he a prime agitator in forcing the administration to create a DEI plan of action? Yup. Was he part of a group of men selected to inform students about rape & sexual assault? YESSIR
It's humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around.
Here’s a snapshot of the Artemis II mission.
We found about the same ($309M median for AAA titles) using a machine learning model to estimate all games budgets a few months ago. Super comforting to see that our data/model match Jason Schreier's sources! 🤓
more:open.substack.com/pub/hushcrasher/p/how-mu...
new Expecting Goals newsletter on the origins of the set piece revolution in the Premier League
Corner kicks and long throws have accounted for nearly 1 in 4 of PL goals scored this season
How did this happen?
There are two clear innovators: Brentford and Arsenal open.substack.com/pub/expectin...
Me when I saw this stat ngl
What if they never interviewed a man overtop a women's match and what if it was double triple never Sascha Zverev
honestly like Anthropic should pay Wikipedia for maintaining the AI-free version
