giri (read CHANGEOVER)

author of CHANGEOVER, on the rise of Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner; "thoughtful, elegantly written, and frequently very funny" - @nybooks

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[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

my book, CHANGEOVER, will be out this summer. read about Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, the end of the Big 3, and pretty much any stray thought about tennis still rattling around my skull

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[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

amazing to watch KAT outplay Wemby by overcoming his own worst tendencies. and to hear him describe the source of his calm

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[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

@CurselessinNEO agreed

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

andre agassi has an unfiltered quality on tv that is bracing and fun but also feels like he's always about 30 seconds riff away from ending his tv career

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

@by_drew that's too kind. thank you my man. also our Shelton convo aged distressingly well

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

Really late to the game on this one but I—someone who has almost never watched tennis and knows next-to-nothing about it—have finally started reading Changeover by @girinathan and it's fucking incredible and I think I love tennis now? Only problem is the writing is so good that I now feel so terribly self-conscious about the thing i'm working on that i feel like I have to start over so thanks for that Giri

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

the last week of non-basketball bliss was perhaps even more enjoyable than watching the basketball

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

What is this alien feeling of watching the Knicks without pain??

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[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

While I watch Wemby I'm going to be thinking about how Nathaniel photographs Wemby

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

loved talking to longtime NBA photographer @natlyphoto about how he sees basketball

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[Jackson Frons @fronssss]

I had a friend in juniors who, despite being in great shape, would cramp in his hands lobster claw style if it got too hot. So his entire body would be fine but he physically couldn’t hold a racket. No one could explain it.

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

cramping discourse is one of the most pseudoscience and folk wisdom flooded sports discourses. I don't know what the answer is but I assure you that Jannik Sinner trains in hot conditions lol

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

@jameskhansen agreed

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

I enjoy that some of Sincaraz’s most formidable opponents are his own body and his own mind respectively

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

@ElvinBen got to keep it going

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

@JCMacriNBA i don't hear enough love for junkyard dog jerome williams these days

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

@benkochman I think plenty of people find his game style boring too, but yeah, there's also the larger narrative issue of them being so far removed from the rest of the tour

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

lately my main counter to "Jannik Sinner is boring" is that truly unimaginable things are happening to the two-handed backhand

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

@CurselessinNEO yes, love watching his footwork and sliding too

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

@by_drew I think a lot of them do have that balance. but I think Sampras, Roddick, Graf, maybe even Fed for stretches of his career - were all doing a lot of shielding

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

and Sinner feels pretty close to a ceiling for the 2hbh, given current tech. he has two forehands. I enjoy the whippy technique and find it beautiful to watch

[giri (read CHANGEOVER) @girinathan]

the forehand-as-sword, backhand-as-shield framing of groundstrokes is descriptively accurate but always vaguely depressed me—is there something fundamental about 2hbh stroke production that limits its efficacy relative to forehand? And how far could a player take it, regardless?