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Tate from California

Speaking of that... Nadal’s path is BRUTAL, with a possible Kyrgios R2, and Novak opens against Kohlschreiber. Federer’s path is just eyeroll-worthy. The R4 is only potential challenge (on paper) until the semis.

Joseph Tyshawn in Atlanta

It lives.

Ayan Roy Chowdhury from New Delhi

Daniel Hansoe from Indonesia

Remember when Michelle Stafford was subtle and chilling? She was absolutely fantastic. And wow (almost) everyone was beautiful. The wonderful lighting helped, of course. But it was a sort of mythic, untouchable beauty. Diana Barton was a stunner in such an Old School Hollywood, film noir way. And it must be said that Peter Bergman was drop-dead gorgeous.

Sabalenka got her first big win in a while today, even if Wozniacki isn’t the player she once was. Sabalenka has really floundered since her epic 2018. Her fall has been underreported because Naomi’s season has been even more disappointing since Melbourne.

Oscar (ykfor) from Hong Kong 🇭🇰

Fernando Borges from Brazil 🇧🇷

Liam Jolley from London

LMAO at Stephens/Ostapenko score. 6-1, 0-6 so far in Eastbourne. I’m not sure why the same formula isn’t applied to the women.

Hwan from South Korea

Annnnnd the New York and Brooklyn public libraries will end Kanopy access on July 1.

IG: double.k_seok from Busan, South Korea

Eddie Ruivo from São Paulo, Brazil

Kush Dutta from Bangalore (Bengalūru), India

Marc Buckner from Cape Town, South Africa

Had Monica Seles not been stabbed by that lunatic, I’d have maybe appreciated Graf more. She needed an equal.

Kenin. Wow. Such a confident player. Beating an in-form Bencic and saving championship points to do it. I think if we had a happy medium like in the 2000s, where we did have good rivalries (Serena/Venus, Serena/Henin, Henin/Clijsters, Davenport/Venus, with Capriati, Mauresmo, Sharapova, Kuznetsova all in the mix), it would be better. I wasn’t around for Chrissie/Martina, but I can imagine it would have been fatiguing to see the same two women lifting trophies all the damn time (in the same way people tire of Federer/Nadal/Djokovic). I certainly got bored with Graf in the mid-‘90s.