I think his breakdown after the Aussie Open Finals loss to Nadal a few years ago was the only time he ever really emotionally reacted to his impending sports mortality, but since then he’s been as zen as a Buddhist cow. Thrilled me made the final this year, and loved his victory over Murray. Loved that his game is…

No doubt, he’s always been a total class act and gracious in defeat and in victory his entire career. He’s definitely been my favorite athlete outside team sports because he’s so good and so humble at the same time. I’ve never heard a bad word about the guy.

The nice thing about tennis, as opposed to boxing or football, is you can still enjoy watching an older player go out and compete against younger, stronger opponents without worrying they’re putting themselves in danger.

“Heartbreaking” is a pretty lazy media narrative to throw out there - Fed might lose a little sleep over the loss (especially not capitalizing in the first set) and be disappointed he couldn’t stick with Nole during the final two sets. I would think last year’s loss was more painful as he had Nole clearly on the ropes…

Djokovic grew up in war torn Serbia practising on courts only when the surrounding area had been bombed the previous night, figuring that bombs wouldn’t drop in the same area two nights in a row.

Mob boss you say?

Are you gonna be okay?

Whoa! You've already seen the movie?! That's awesome! Send me a link so I can judge it too!

Are you mad?

Considering we only saw like 9 seconds of him, I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion.

Federer has won 5 grand slams and two Olympic medals within the last 7 years — and he has a pretty decent shot to add a sixth slam tomorrow. If Federer’s entire career were comprised of the last seven years, it would stand, by itself, as a Stefan-Edberg-tier pro tennis career. (Serena, of course, is, like Federer, one…

No surprise but I agree with the shrugging person. I think TayTayTruther is way off the mark here. Yes, many haters make veiled and not-so-veiled racist remarks about how Serena looks. But that doesn’t mean this story is doing it. The article simply describes Serena as one of the strongest players in women’s tennis.…

I disagree. I think it is an absolutely important piece of cultural analysis that lays bare the assumptions that drive much of society and, from what I can tell, especially the “ladylike” sport of professional tennis. I think they do an admirable job of laying bare the contradictions at the heart of this mess. They…

Yeah, I feel like people completely missed the point of this story (or just didn’t read it). Maybe if the post quoted the paragraph that followed the one describing (accurately! and admiringly!) Serena’s physique, they’d get it:

#humblebrag

*cough cough humblebrag cough*

I dont think that many people hate her.

I have absolutely no problem with the Times in this story. What they have done is pierce the very ugly, racist veil and allowed us all to see the kinds of assumptions that have shaped women’s tennis as a sport. My take is that they are reporting it “straight” and allowing people to fucking bury themselves when they…

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