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The best article I’ve read this U.S. Open is about the one Nick Kyrgios supporter who can never opt out of the constant pain of fandom: his mom. [New York Times]
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Some guy wrote some big tennis thing in the Washington Post Magazine that I heard is pretty good. Maybe you want to read it here, or whatever.
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Most talk of match-fixing in tennis comes cloaked in too many layers of anonymity to feel genuinely juicy. When the…
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