Perfect Match?

This is the correct way to frame slam titles. By just adding the text “IN OPEN ERA”, you bypass the whole topic of Margaret Court’s irrelevant wins in Australia when most players didn’t even travel there.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

You know you can just post sometimes

In which @shellsteak.bsky.social evaluates top ATP booty based on her custom scoring system (for men’s asses) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Seen at the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog parade

Not tennis related, but the comments in this thread 🤣

This is all kinds of awesome 🩰🎾 #Tennis #Ballet #CarlosAlcaraz

Happy Bi Visibility Day! Here’s a little audio essay on the bi experience #biweek #bivisibilityday podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

This week we break down the 5 categories of bros in men’s tennis. Is Tommy Paul a Total Bro or Partial Bro? What is a Nouveau Bro? And much more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

🏳️‍🌈🎾What a moment during the Tulln Challenger trophy ceremony🎾🏳️‍🌈 Mika Brunold thanks Joao Lucas Reis for being an inspiration and says both of them can help others struggling with their sexuality. Mika beat Joao 64 63 to win his first challenger title!

As a culture of silence pervades and persists in tennis, I’m thinking of Nina today. www.benrothenberg.com/p/alexander-...

No sunglasses, no weird stripes. Looking better for the Men’s Final, Andy!

LOL finally someone just said it.

Echoes of Woodstock: don’t drink the semi-frozen Honey Deuce “slushie” they sell when the machines aren’t working well (always). It’s a concentrated sugar/alcohol bomb and the sugar masks the alcohol taste. Also, don’t take the brown acid #usopen

Seconding this. Just finished it this morning and it’s my favorite gay romance since You Should Be So Lucky. #booksky #queerromance #tennis #usopen

Who’s gonna tell Andy that his looks have been different flavors of weird all week? #usopen

It’s a good time to read “The Open Era”, the gay sports romance novel that takes place at the US Open. This week we discuss the book and the genre with library cataloger Julia Lubey, and we nerd out on behind-the-scenes library stuff too! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

We happened to attend the US Open on Pride Day, which seems both quoditian given the history of lesbian representation and perplexing given the dearth of gay male representation #usopen #pride

Do they not make pants long enough for John Isner? #usopen #espn

We attended fan week on Tuesday and recorded a real-time audio postcard detailing our VERY long day at the Open. We also talk tickets, the USTA, prices, crowds, Mamdani, and an excellent book talk to celebrate the release of the new book, Finding Renee Richards.

I wonder if in time tennis will ponder how the (minimum known) two rounds of Covid Novak suffered due to his own choices impacted the last stretch of his career

Favorite tennis writer now has a Substack. Follow and SUBSCRIBE. You won’t regret it.

Just in time for tennis season to peak in New York City, 10 public tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only courts in the Bronx with lights for nighttime playing — are now fully renovated.

This is great but it’s also just a bandaid on a bullet hole. Please push Gov. Hochul to pass a law capping ticket resale prices at face value. It’s the only way to solve this problem.

Loved seeing Carlos, Serena and Roger today. All such class acts ♥️

Arthur Ashe Stadium today 😥

The Danimal serving up extra stupid today on the #tclive desk

The day we published this episode, Carlos ditched the cornrows. Podcasting! open.spotify.com/episode/4Sc6...

Who ordered a 20 minute speech from this guy? #dcopen

So let's talk about Carlos Alcaraz's cornrows. Cool style or cultural appropriation? I explain my answer in my latest Courtside Coffee post. open.substack.com/pub/courtsid...

We watch a good deal of Jeopardy! and this was good to see from Ken 💪

Umm...not sure what to do with this

If you care about tennis, you should subscribe to @benrothenberg.bsky.social's substack (like we do). This week we talk about the WTA's new "prove you're a woman" policy, a story broken by Ben on his Bounces substack. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I spent the last few weeks writing this piece about the end of tennis.com -- what it was like during the peak of the blog days, how it influenced young writers, how it changed in tandem with the Internet, and the void that's left now that it's gone. Gift link: defector.com/tennis-com-l...

Update: Because I want people to understand this developing story as fully as possible, I've removed the paywall from this article, so all can read the whole in-depth thing in full, including the embedded PDF document of the WTA's policy document. Subscriptions still appreciated!

Happy 45th birthday to Soft Cell's version of Tainted Love, released on this day in 1981

You find some real treasures at the little free library in Stuytown

Relevant to our latest episode, in which we put Men's Tennis on a Performance Improvement Plan! (great minds think alike @carolebouchard.bsky.social) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

In his proof of life photo, Mitch McConnell is holding a newspaper article about Linda Noskova winning Wimbledon. #TennisIsAlive #AndMaybeMitchMcConnellIsToo

Sure, defending your Wimbledon title is great, but have you ever Taken Out the Trash on Centre Court?

Thank you lord, thank you Jesus. Go Jannik Sinner!!! 💪🍓⚡️ #wimbledon

You can do this Jannik 💪 #wimbledon

Why is Zv*r*v outplaying Sinner in every way right now? 😖

Caption this.

Thank you for your service, Sinner 🫡

Please, gods of tennis, give Fery super powers ⚡️🇬🇧

Serena's back it seems, for better or worse! This week we look at the odd circumstances around her Wimbledon moment and what this means going forward. Also: players cave on prize money, no dogs at Wimbledon and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

There is some research that shows that the more elaborate the wedding ceremony, the shorter the marriage lasts. Apropos of nothing as I navigate away from MSG tonight

Breaking at Bounces: Due to ongoing war and uncertainty in the Middle East, the WTA Finals are pulling out of their final year in Saudi Arabia, and will be held instead at Indian Wells this November. Free for all to read and share here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/breaking-w...

It is really fun to live in NYC right now. The Knicks won and our mayor is basically a Disney character who just jumped into a pool with a bunch of kids and we had a ridiculously good pride and it’s hot and humid and that sucks …