Marcus Tennis

Tennis Emcee, tennis player, tennis fan. Events, occasional tennis facts, & video reports from select pro and junior tournaments on

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

@jenvanlaar @RedState I have a couple of media colleagues that may just fit your bill. Please send me your submission link. Thanks in advance!

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

Missed it, thanks to @espn + streaming outage . . . with no messages on their socials about it 🤬

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

Beatriz Haddad Maia gets it done convincingly!

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

@espn + streaming has been down since about 9:07pm PT. WTH am I paying for @espn?

I already missed the Sakkari v. Haddad Maia match, which I was multiviewing with the Bublik v. Paul match.
Looking for substantial refund, as you can't go back.
#unacceptable #USOpen2025 #outage

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

@espn, can you please turn up the court noise, at least as loud as the commentators, on the Zverev / Auger-Aliassime match streaming? I want to FEEL the concussion as the balls are hit, in my home theater :-)🎾
#USOpen2025 #espn

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

I've criticized in the past, but . . .
Huge #shoutout to @ESPN for the new options on ESPN+ for @usopen!

I really like, when switching to other courts, being able to choose "Watch LIVE", or "Start from Beginning" of the match. Bravo!
#ESPN #USOpen2025

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

INT. COFFEE HOUSE

RANDOM FRIEND
Dang it! Look at this! I just spilled my mocha latte all down the side of my white shirt!

@adidas Y-3 DESIGNER
Hmmm, . . . This gives me a great idea for the @usopen product line . . .

#spilledmocha #USOpen

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

Another great day of watching @usopen today on
@espn with wins by Tennis Friends @francestiafoe, @brooksby_jenson, and a tough but solid effort by @mackiemacster! #USOpen2025

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

Benjamin Bonzi defeats Daniil Medvedev in five sets and is into Round 2 👀

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

I'm still in it, just not out in the field, and avoiding toxic social media.

Great to watch @usopen wins today on @espn by Tennis Friends Emma Navarro, @CatyMcNally, and @marcos_giron93! #USOpen2025

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

@TennysSandgren Right?
Usually, the baseline looks more like a clay court by then :-)

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

@DrKellyVictory Planned obsolescence. Big Pharma needs to recoup their losses from what's coming 😛

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

"As my friend Mary Carillo used to call it . . . Big Babe tennis."
I ❤️ it!
Thanks for that nugget @ChrissieEvert on @espn
#Wimbledon

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

@espn , please, please, please either turn up the on-court nat sound, or tone down the announcers. I'd rather feel like I'm on the court, than have the announcers sitting in my head. Thanks! #Wimbledon

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

I agree with this assessment.
Much like politics, the rules appear to be different for the favored people. By definition, that makes things . . . unfair.

[Professional Tennis Players Association @ptpaplayers]

PTPA statement regarding the Jannik Sinner case.

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

@AlafiaAyeni Yeah baby! Get it!

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

Just throwing this out there . . .
Hey @elonmusk . . . IF you purchase @MSNBC . . . and IF you need a multimedia savvy tennis reporter/producer . . . I know a guy . . .

Me. I'm the guy.
#decadesoftennising

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

@pavyg @BKrejcikova Did someone say "forehead" . . . ?

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

Tell me you don't know how to journalism without telling me you don't know how to journalism.

If you are going to open a direct quote with quotation marks, then directly quote someone, not paraphrase and clean it up 😛

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Frances Tiafoe on Roger Federer watching his match against Grigor Dimitrov at US Open

“The way he looked in the suite was the same way he looked when he was playing. No sweating. T shirts ironed perfect, hair perfect. What’s up with this dude, man? 😂

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

I couldn't agree more!

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Novak Djokovic says tennis is endangered at the club level, ‘If we don’t do something about it globally, they’re gonna convert all the tennis clubs into paddle or pickleball’

“In terms of innovation in our sport… other than Slams, we have to figure out how to attract a young audience. Tennis on one hand is in a good place, but at the same time, when we look at Formula 1 for example and what they’ve done in terms of marketing, in terms of growth of the sport, in terms of the races around the world and how popular they are.. I think we need to do a better job on our respective tours. The grand slams are always gonna do well. But I think our tours need to do better. We are lucky to be very historic and a very global sport. But I think one of the studies that was done by PTPA 3 or 4 years ago showed that tennis is the 3rd or 4th most watched sport in the world along with cricket. Number 1 is football or soccer as you call it in the states. Second is basketball. Then it’s tennis and cricket. But tennis is number 9 or 10 on the list of all sports in terms of using its popularity, commercializing or capitalizing on that. I think there’s a huge space for growth. We’re quite fractioned as a sport. There are quite a bit of things for us to collectively look at and try to improve it. We need to grow the number of players that live from this sport. Very rarely do I see in the media that you guys are writing about the fact that you have only 350 to 400 players both men, women, singles, doubles across the board that live from this sport on this planet. That’s deeply concerning for me. Yes, we talk about the grand slam winner wins this or that. The focus is always on the grand prize but what about the base level? We’re still doing a very poor job there… very poor job. Tennis is a very global sport and it’s loved by millions of children that pick up a racquet that wanna play, but we don’t make it accessible. We don’t make it so affordable. Especially in countries like mine that doesn’t have a strong federation, that has Grand Slam or history or big budgets.. so I think collectively we all have to come together or create a new foundation, a corner stone of really what tennis is about.. which is the base level. The club level. Now we have paddle that is growing and emerging. People kind of have fun with it and say ‘Yeah but tennis is tennis. Tennis is the king or queen of all racquet sports.’ That’s true. But on a club level, tennis is endangered. If we don’t do something about it, globally or collectively, paddle, pickleball in the states, they’re gonna convert all the tennis clubs into paddle and pickleball. Because it’s more economical. You have one tennis court… you can build 3 paddle courts on one tennis court. Do the simple math. It’s just much more financially viable for the owner of the club to have those courts. These are some of the things I wanted to share. In the grand scheme of things, we need to address all these challenges and issues. Because they’ve been out there for a while. I don’t think we’ve been addressing it in the proper way.”

(via Wimbledon Press)

[Marcus Tennis @marcustennis]

" . . . I just say EFF it . . . "

Danielle Collins is my spirit Danimal :-D
#Wimbledon2024 #epsn #WIMBLEDON #daniellecollins