That’s correct. Read more

Isner rips a passing shot up the line to hold serve for 11-10, continues his sprint right into his chair, looking pretty satisfied. Read more

Anderson has yet another break opportunity at 10-10, 40-30, only to shank a backhand into the stratosphere. Read more

Clearing the 4 hrs, 44 min mark, this became the longest semifinal in Wimbledon history. Read more

Just so everyone’s on the same page: John Isner has been here before. Read more

That was a pretty impressive passing attempt on the run from Anderson, who is playing a ridiculously clean match with only nine unforced errors. This match still needs to be taken to a nice farm upstate. Read more

Yep. One of the most entertaining players ever. Read more

Yep. One of the most entertaining players ever. Read more

Yeah. It definitely matters how good the player is. Zverev doesn’t have the softest touch on tour—maybe that aspect of his game will develop, he’s good at everything else—but he has the basic competency to execute those shots against Edmund IMO. Z had some beautiful drop shots on Rafa in the final at 3-0 in the second. Read more

He defended the most common action in the NBA more effectively than anyone (including those three All-Defensive team guys) while being the second-youngest player in the NBA. Read more

ah, thanks for this fix, forgot about that match. Agreed re: the winners. Though even when Shapo is going for broke and spraying, you can usually detect an intelligent instinct behind the shot, which is more than can be said for a lot of other ESAW sufferers, who whale at the ball badly out of position. It’s early,… Read more

That was my initial thought too re: groundstrokes, but it turns out his Clay ELO is much more impressive than I would have figured, right behind Stan. Read more

A Rafael Nadal post sure is an interesting place to assert that a sport has “no way to play defense.” Read more

Ah thanks Read more

Bottom third of Ben & Jerry’s carton, chocolate-covered coconut chunks Read more

The Earth 2 where LeBron finishes that Game 7 dunk is a much happier and less poisoned world. Read more

Definitely. Way too much for him to take on right now, though I do really like the idea of him at the 1 in the long run Read more

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I don’t think it was due to 8-of-13, eight assists and no turnovers, either. Yes, he should have hit his jumpers down the stretch, and yes, he should have ....... not been mysteriously benched during a pivotal stretch of the game? Read more