author of CHANGEOVER, on the rise of Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner; "thoughtful, elegantly written, and frequently very funny" - @nybooks
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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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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
Really late to the game on this one but Iโsomeone who has almost never watched tennis and knows next-to-nothing about itโhave 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
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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 couldnโt hold a racket. No one could explain it.
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
@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
@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
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
the forehand-as-sword, backhand-as-shield framing of groundstrokes is descriptively accurate but always vaguely depressed meโis there something fundamental about 2hbh stroke production that limits its efficacy relative to forehand? And how far could a player take it, regardless?