The Medvedev/Tsitsipas beef is SPICY (see my favorite tennis interaction ever: https://deadspin.com/tennis-toilet-beef-leads-to-one-player-telling-another-1824004064). Tsitsipas/Zverev is also fun but less exceptional.

“gadget-free” 🙄 he’s pretty damn prolific online and livestreamed his return to singles in August. Gadgets aren’t the issue.

“When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor”

Giri got a short interview during a US tournament this year (Indian Wells, I think). It’s in his longform Tsitsipas piece.

A men’s quarterfinalist under the age of 28?

I feel the need to defend Giri here; he clearly respects the hell out of Nadal (see his lavish praise for both Rafa and Djoker in last year’s Wimbledon semi). Even the “tennis jail” article felt more like awe of his dominance at best-of-five on clay than a complaint to me. Guessing the Thiem clips are just…