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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.

Jordan from St. Louis

This chart is hilarious. Look how dominant that first row was (Evonne and Tracy are the short-lived exceptions), which starts in the early ‘70s and goes well into the ‘90s. Then things just become a hash. The early-to-mid 2000s were at least super-competitive, but it wasn’t quite the merry-go-round we have now. I suppose one could argue that the constant turnover is exciting, but it’s hard for audiences to form attachments to players over time when success is so fleeting.

More power to Ash. Disappointing for Naomi, but hey, she’s still No. 2. Naomi just needs to regain some confidence, as some of her play this year has been listless.