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Another day, another Kei match going three sets when he should have easily closed it out in two. He routed Frances in that decider, but he had served for it previously. This is interesting given Tiafoe’s strong first half of 2018:

An interesting comparison because they are around the same height (shorter than most players). If only Kei had a more effective serve with all his other gifts (movement, backhand, return of serve). Free points would also help him preserve his body. Meanwhile, Hyeon Chung has ended his season, which started so promisingly on the heels of Milan.

That was as messy as I’ve seen Naomi play in a while. Meanwhile...

I haven’t been able to give full attention to the Osaka/Stephens match, but apparently Cicak made two dodgy overrules that Naomi didn’t challenge and cost her games.

Bad form from Kvitova today against Svitolina, who hadn’t beaten her since the first time they played FOUR YEARS AGO. The errors just kept coming, as they often do with Petra, but some of them were truly shocking, like an easy overhead blasted long with a BP on Elina’s serve.

One of the greatest songs ever...

As you know, I’m a Kpop novice, but I went down a rabbit hole last night and fell in love with a few songs (probably old hat for y’all).

Gulbis defeated Isner in three sets in Stockholm to reach his first ATP final in four years and meets Tsitsipas!!!! That should be a fun one. Kasatkina debuts in the top 10 with her Kremlin Cup title. Jabeur really had an amazing week, though. You know who had a disappointing year in spite of a maiden title? Mischa Zverev.

I saw that. I had no clue Chidi was hiding all that body!

WTF

WERK! Meanwhile in Singapore... Non-GS champions to the top left lol...

Ha! “Pls block me.” Michael B. Jordan is just perfect.

Jabeur beat Makarova and today Kontaveit in addition to Sloane earlier this week, so maybe she’s having a particularly good run in Moscow? This is funny: In other news:

Halep’s out of the WTFs with that lingering back injury but remains in SG doing press. Bertens is in.