Dakota Loving

@PatrickMcEnroe It can be done Americans, but you have to basically become a traveling professional tennis player by the age of 17. My son had a world ranking at the age of 19 and played D1 tennis at an SEC school. It requires an enormous amount of dedication.

I’m currently watching the SEC men’s tennis championship match between Texas and Mississippi State on the ESPN/SEC network. There are 12 players currently on court. 1 of them is from the United States of America

@showfortennis I wouldn’t call those guys Tier 2.

Agree. Pro tennis is missing that Tier 2 level player that can throw haymakers at the top dawgs

@ContrarianCurse Nike does really well with tennis and golf.

I shit you not, Steph Curry destroyed basketball

@RedWavePress I don’t think that was a new revelation.

Biden’s former National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan: “The main lesson Iran has taken from this war is that they can now shut down the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States will look at that as a source of leverage for Iran. That used to be a theoretical possibility; now it’s an actual reality.” “[Iran] decide down the road if we want to close it up again that is what Iran got out of this war.”

@TennisLegende He’s doing it for the $$.

A partir du moment où, après seulement quelques mois de pratique (3 ans), un ex-joueur de tennis pro bat le n°1 mondial de pickleball, tu ne peux pas prendre cette discipline au sérieux. Après 3 ans de tennis, un ex-joueur pro de pickleball prendra encore et toujours 0 et 0 contre le n°1 mondial de tennis. Après 3 ans de padel, un ex-joueur de tennis pro, se fera découper par la meilleure équipe du monde de padel, même si son partenaire est le n°3 mondial.

@aakashgupta TMI

Amazon's internal metrics said customers waited under 60 seconds for customer service. Jeff Bezos picked up the phone in a meeting and waited more than 10 minutes. The head of customer service had been defending the number. Bezos said "Ok, let's call." He dialed Amazon's 1-800 line on speaker. The room sat there for over ten minutes before a rep answered. The metric didn't survive the meeting. Bezos has a saying: when the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. Metrics don't measure reality. They measure what you designed them to measure. Customer service dashboards commonly filter out abandoned calls, cap hold time at the IVR timeout, and start the clock after the menu tree completes. Every one of those choices pushes the average down. The customers hanging up at minute 9 are not in the denominator. The 60-second number was technically accurate and practically wrong. That call broke through a defended metric in a way no spreadsheet could have. The head of CS had dashboards and a team whose job was to report that number going down quarter over quarter. Bezos had 10 minutes of hold music and a room full of people watching. This is the executive test almost nobody runs. Call your own 1-800 line. Try to buy your own product in incognito. Every senior leader can do it in under 15 minutes. Almost none do, because the dashboards feel like the truth and the dashboards say things are fine. The measurement got redesigned. Wait times actually fell. When your data says you're winning and your customers say you're losing, the customers are right. The data was built by people whose job depends on it going down.

@RaineyVoI It’s not just a practice facility. I’m sure you can reserve a tee time yourself and pay for your own group.

Why the hell do you spend $47M on a college golf practice facility

@KingTailorGang This is either fake news or downright slander.

This is what happens when you compete in a sport clean after 2 years of steroids. Jasmine Paolini is a drug cheat.

@KySportsRadio Is this tennis team news? I can’t tell.

Missing on Rob Wright is a big loss for Kentucky. They believed he would sign yesterday on his visit. Everyone around him wanted him to go to Kentucky But the kid wanted to stay at BYU. So he decided to go back to Provo

@dogwoodblooms I would argue that this violates the One person One vote rule.

Our country was set up to avoid exactly this. We are NOT a pure democracy. And we are not a pure democracy so that those who live in the urban areas can’t lord over those in distant rural areas. I’m beyond disgusted. What is the GOP doing to counter this BS and save our constitutional republic?

@College10sRanks @aggietennis1 If you didn’t spend more than 2 years at a school you really shouldn’t be on this list. Get a degree people.

Singles - Top 10 Men with college 🎾 ties - 4/13/26 6. Ben Shelton (Florida) 17. Valentin Vacherot (Texas A&M) 19. Francisco Cerundolo (South Carolina) 22. Learner Tien (USC) 24. Cameron Norrie (TCU) 26. Arthur Rinderknech (Texas A&M) 33. Brandon Nakashima (Virginia) 37. Gabriel Diallo (Kentucky) 50. Ethan Quinn (Georgia) 51. Yannick Hanfmann (USC) Full list at collegetennisranks.com/rankings/playe…

@More_Issues The men’s tennis team lost in Starkville.

Tennessee has owned Mississippi State in Starkville in 2025-2026. -Football won 41-34 -Men’s Basketball won 73-64 -Lady Vols Basketball won 90-80 -Baseball won the series 6-5 and 6-2 -Softball won the series 2-1

@UltraRunnerPod SEC

I'd heard how crazy the college admissions process is, but now seeing it in reality has blown my mind. My kid has great grades (4.2 weighted) with a ton of APs, leadership ec's, a very solid athletic resume, parents paying cash, etc., all at a private college-preparatory HS, and she has basically no chance of getting into a UC or CSU for her major. Not sure what needs to be done, but this is crazy. 🙄😩

@ClayTravis They could also build a desalination plant and water the state during the dry months.

If you live in California and are upset about gas prices — the taxes are a huge reason why you pay more than everyone else — but, crazily, your state, which could be energy independent, mostly stopped drilling, and instead imports 29% of its gas from the strait of Hormuz. Crazy.

@_yanaboyko @IamPuneetX Let me know if you need help with a copyright registration.

Please help spread the word: I’m honestly shocked to see my illustration being used on T-shirts sold at the Monte-Carlo Masters without my permission or a licence. I never expected something like this from such a major tournament. If someone from the organisers sees this, please contact me so we can resolve this properly. @montecarlorolex @atptour

@simpleevan1 @nishikoripicks Tennis is the most tested sport in the world.

@nishikoripicks He is doping, and no one is looking into the doping of a number of other players. Draper, Rinderknech, Vacherot, and Sinner are all 100% doped.

I don't think I've ever seen a player who started breaking through this late in his career. Is there any other case like Valentin Vacherot? I can't think of one.

@mlbelites_ And this is why baseball is unwatchable.

Jered Weaver wasn’t happy with Kyle Seager calling time in the middle of his windup So he plunked Seager on the next pitch 😂

@DanClarkSports It’s baseball. No one cares anymore.

This is beyond bush league - what an absolute disgrace! An old-school manager, Buck Showalter style, would have torn shreds off Kyle Bradish for this and probably would have made him ride the pine for a few weeks too, to make an example of him. Simply unforgivable. Atrocious!

@Tennishater69 @MeVsSpread Take a wild guess at how expensive it is for a player ranked, say, 450 in the world to pay for coaching, pay for stringing, pay for airfare, pay for equipment. My son had a world ranking at the age of 19. I know the answer.

@Energy_IP @MeVsSpread No one is watching challengers lol. Not enough to pay the bills atleast. The ATP pays for these players hotels a lot of time, their food, etc.. get better at your craft or quit all together

Match Fixing in Tennis. I rarely, if ever, claim that a match was fixed as the reason if I lost a bet. But it happens more than some skeptics think. Most tennis players outside the Top 125 range are literally living paycheck to paycheck.

@ProudSocialist @mariecurieie Go DJT!

BREAKING: Trump announces he is completely ignoring the Supreme Court & imposing a new 10% global tariff on all countries in addition to existing tariffs. Also, the $175 billion in tariffs ruled unconstitutional will go back to corporations, not the people. WE ARE BEING LOOTED.