Andy’s Reads: Mouratoglou’s Ideas to Spice Up Tennis And Djere’s Inspirational Story

Serena Williams’ coach Patrick Mouratoglou has some ideas on how to make tennis exciting again.  He points out that average tennis fan is 62 years and getting older (METRO)

Long form interview with Janko Tispsarevic, who is returning from surgery.  Tipsarevic talks about Nick Kyrgios, Davis Cup and the GOAT debate(Tennisnow.com)

22-year old Chilean player Christian Garin is rising fast in the rankings (Last Word On Tennis)

“Sascha” Zverev is not having a good year.  He has 10-4 record so far this year and is defending a ton of points in the next 6-8 weeks. If his performance doesn’t pick up, he could see a steep fall in rankings (Tennis World USA)

Nicolas Almagro, who just retired from professional tennis to head tennis academy in in Murcia (Tennis World USA)

Laslo Djere writes a personal story about his struggles and why he is optimistic (ATP)

Asics designes Court FF 2 shoes with input from Novak Djokovic (Forbes)

Tara Moore pulls off one of the most remarkable comebacks in tennis (NY Post)

 

 

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Andy’s Reads: Almagro’s Retirement and Novak Has Some Supporters

Nicolas Almagro, one of the best clay court players in the Rafael Nadal era retires.  His single handed backhand was one to admire.  Here are 70 of his best backhands (Youtube)

Gunter Bresnik steps back from coaching Dominic Thiem. Nicholas Massu to be new coach (h/t Kamakshi_Tandon)

Cici Bellis opens up on her struggles with injuries (WTA)

In a rare move, Nike allows Naomi Osaka to wear two patches on her clothing (Tennis)

Novak Djokovic got slammed after ATP CEO Chris Kermode’s contract was not renewed.  But he does have some supporters (Metro UK)

Nike has stopped selling “RF” logo clothing.  Looks like Roger Federer is about to get his logo back (SportsPro)

Andy Murray is back on the tennis court and he is pain-free (CNN)

Denis Shapovalov goes back to his old coach Adriano Fuorivia (Tennis.life)

Here is your helpful guide on how to queue for Wimbledon tickets (perfect-tennis)

Inside Bibi Andreescu’s best week of her career (ESPN)

 

 

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