The courts at Indian Wells are slow. Many players including Daniil Medvedev are frustrated. The rallies are long and it takes forever to finish matches. The balls at Indian wells are bad too.

Speaking of the court speed, Medvedev said,

It’s a disgrace to the sport, this court. I will take five time violations to be as slow as these courts.

It’s a fricking disgrace to the sport, this court, we should be banned from playing here. And they call it hard courts. What a shame to call this awful court a hard cour

To make things worse, he also rolled his ankle during his victory over Alexander Zverev. The always quotable Medvedev had this to say about his toilet break, “I’ll go to the toilet but I don’t care, you can give me a time violation, I’ll be as slow as this court again. I don’t care, you can give me five time violations”.

Indian Wells courts have always been slow. Combined with the Penn balls, the pace of play appears to be slower this year.

Latvia has cut off funding to tennis players who compete n the same tournaments as Russian and Belarusian players. The move is bizarre because Latvian players have no control over who the tournament allows to participate.

Among the players impacted is Jelena Ostapenko. Speaking of the move, Ostapenko said,

Of course they have reached out, but honestly there is really nothing to do because I’m not organizing tournaments. The WTA is the one who is organizing tournaments and I don’t have any opportunities to play in any other tournaments

Luckily for Ostapenko, she can support herself financially. But lower-ranked tennis players from Latvia will pay a price.

This looks like a petty move by the Latvian government. Where else are the Latvian players going to play if they can’t play at tournaments that have Russian and Belarusian players?