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The Occasionals: WTA players who captured rare moments

0 comments by on 6/3/2016

It sounds like the name of the local neighborhood alternative band who plays at the pub just around the corner from the grocery store: The Occasionals. It’s the name I thought of for a certain kind of WTA player, inspired by the runs of Samantha Stosur and Kiki Bertens to the Roland Garros semifinals. Regardless […]

5 Ways The 2014 French Open Redefined Tennis

0 comments by on 6/9/2014

The four major tournaments do a lot to redefine the sport of tennis. Yes, these two-week events affirm many of pre-existing truths — Rafael Nadal’s a tolerably good tennis player on clay; Maria Sharapova is no longer a cow on ice when it comes to crushed red brick — but it’s always particularly fascinating to […]

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