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Novak Djokovic Wins the U.S. Open and a 24th Career Major Title
11Sep By adminNo Comments
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Novak Djokovic Wins the U.S. Open and a 24th Career Major Title

Novak Djokovic rarely misses an opportunity to remind people that he’s 36 years old—that he can’t quite recover like he used to, that his body might some day let him down. Even on court, he has to stretch more than he used to, and occasionally pauses to catch his breath. But then, Djokovic finds his groove and gives a different impression entirely. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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How Coco Gauff Flipped Her Game to Win the U.S. Open
10Sep By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

How Coco Gauff Flipped Her Game to Win the U.S. Open

Defense is perhaps the least-talked-about aspect of tennis. It’s not quantifiable, like the number of aces. It’s not readily captured in the highlight videos that tend to get uploaded on social media. In an era in which the game is ever more athletic, and punishing offensive shots are struck under pressure from almost anywhere on the court, it can be hard to tell just when it is that a player is actually defending. At its starkest, great defense is simply—but not so simply—the ability to get one more ball back over the net which has no business getting back over the net, and to keep doing it. That, more than anything else, is what earned Coco Gauff the U.S. Open women’s championship on Saturday. It bought her time to get the measure of Aryna Sabalenka’s formidable power; it gradually wore...
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At Wimbledon, Carlos Alcaraz Defeated Novak Djokovic by Being Himself
17Jul By adminNo Comments
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At Wimbledon, Carlos Alcaraz Defeated Novak Djokovic by Being Himself

The result of a tennis match hinges on the cumulative result of countless decisions. Some are strategic, made by a player and a coach before a match gets under way. Most are made in the moment—in the briefest of moments. This is especially true if the surface that a match is played on is grass. A tennis ball loses relatively little velocity off the bounce on grass. It skids. And, because it tends to stay low off the bounce and can bounce erratically, backing up behind the baseline to buy more time is not an option—or not a winning one, anyway. A player on grass must hug the baseline and confront the lack of time, a confrontation that further heightens the pressure of the moment, so that decision-making becomes even harder, and more crucial.On Sunday afternoon, Carlos Alcaraz defeated Nova...
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Markéta Vondroušová Flips the Script at Wimbledon
15Jul By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Markéta Vondroušová Flips the Script at Wimbledon

Markéta Vondroušová came into the Wimbledon women’s final as the forty-second-ranked tennis player in the world and the seventh-ranked player in the Czech Republic. She was not even the top-ranked Czech left-hander; that was Petra Kvitová, a two-time Wimbledon champion who had been easily defeated in the round of sixteen by Ons Jabeur, Vondroušová’s opponent in Saturday’s final. No unseeded player had ever made the Wimbledon final in the Open Era. No unseeded woman had ever won it. Vondroušová was not an obvious candidate to break the streak. She had made the final of the French Open in 2019, and won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics, but she had never broken into the game’s Top Ten. Coming into the tournament, her record on grass was 4–11. She spent last year’s tournament exploring ...
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