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Guts&grit—Marta Kostyuk shows resilience&resolve typical of Ukrainians by a decisive win, even after learning of a Russian missile attack almost hitting her home&family. Her losing opponent was a former Russian, adding to symbolic significance&satisfaction.nytimes.com/athletic/73042…

At the end of this press conference, Iga basically confirmed what I have been saying that competitors got used to her spin and this is an example of why it's hard to stay on top of the game. youtu.be/nXKqKALT21w?si…

@whereswallyXxi @rolandgarros @tntsports TNT probably figured their American audience would freak out the ceremony was in French. I mean, look at some of the people they put on the desk. Thanks to RG for posting. Beautiful moment.

@rolandgarros @tntsports I really can't fathom why you cut away from Chatrier and didn't show this. What an L.

Gael 🧡 Elina #RolandGarros

@Roksanche I got up at 5 am expecting to see Iga. Nope. No Svito match either. Showing all Americans, and not ones I care to see. Tennis coverage is a total bust.

Na 4 kanałach Eurosportu żadnego meczu kobiet, ale za to mamy mecz Ruud vs Safiulin na dwóch kanałach w tym samym czasie 😍 fantastycznie!

@tntsports But you didn't show any of it on TNT. 😠 By the way, your coverage is terrible. And you have a bunch of clowns working the desk. The discussion there is giving vibes of a cheap made-for-TV movie. 👎

JAZDA 💪 Four-time champion Iga Swiatek cruises through her opening match at Roland-Garros with a 6-1 6-2 win against Emerson Jones!

Picking Iga to take RG this year. 🤞 youtu.be/6L9gW_67o-g?si…

@ElinaSvitolina @PlayersTribune Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing.🥹 Best wishes to the trio. 🫶

I wrote a letter to my daughter, about her dad the magician, before his last show in Paris @PlayersTribune theplayerstribune.com/elina-svitolin…

Sloane Stephens advances in Paris — and continues to shine beyond the court ✨ Recognised globally for her impact off it. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ #RolandGarros rolandgarros.com/en-us/article/…

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@Maciek_Zareba Well, well. So despite the accusations, it looks like Bouzkova is not a cheater after all.

Ciekawa sytuacja z meczu Bouzkova - Siniakova w Strasbourgu. System wskazuje aut po zagraniu Siniakovej, jest close call, ale Bouzkova z własnej inicjatywy mówi do sędziego, że piłka była dobra. Arbiter zarządza powtórkę punktu.

@ElinaSvitolina @InteBNLdItalia Incredible tennis today, Elina. So happy for you. 🥹 We had some prosecco tonight at home to celebrate your win. Cheers! 🥂

Numero 20 🏆 The third in Rome 🇮🇹 @InteBNLdItalia

Doe with newborn.

@heraskevych @ElinaSvitolina Spectacular and inspiring performance. The grit and determination. Just wow! Huge congrats Elina!

КОРОЛЕВА УКРАЇНСЬКОГО ТЕНІСУ 🤌🏼 @ElinaSvitolina виграла WTA 1000 у Римі, перегравши по ходу турніру 2-гу, 3-тю та 4-ту чинні ракетки світу Гордість! 🥹🇺🇦

@zdzichudyrma It's 2026, and here we are moonballing in the championship match.

coco being bigger pusher than svitolina

@SunGlow23 Elina totally stole that set. 😁

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@Martina Insane and shameful. We all watched the Roots miniseries aired on national TV. It was a huge event. At least where I lived, no one shied away from the subject matter or the objective right and wrong depicted. That said, I didn't live in the South either.

Wow…

@JenResistedAGN Maybe gold standard for hypocrisy.

Stop being so surprised when Trump and his millions of supporters identify as Christians. History is full of Christians waging wars, colonizing countries, owning other humans, and covering up sexual abuse in churches. Christianity isn’t some gold standard for morality.

@Sarilec Well she's 19-5 in finals, so hopefully she brings that high level again.

Svito, between me and you, I'll like you a little less if you don't win on Saturday.

@dsenkowski07 @80_JRod Ciekawe byłoby porównanie wyników Igi w ciągu dnia i w nocy. Uważam że gra lepiej dniem.

Iga Świątek po meczu z Elina Switolina: „Patrząc z perspektywy tego jak się czułam choćby w USA, to turniej w Rzymie to dla mnie krok do przodu. Wiadomo, że chcę więcej, ale wciąż sprawiało mi przyjemność granie w tenisa. A to nie tak oczywiste i nie powinno się brać jako pewnik”

@Sarilec I sense Iga does not like playing at night. I want to know her record night vs. day. I bet it's not as good at night. Elina, on the other hand, plays an inordinate number of night matches, often very late. She's more used to the nighttime vibe and rhythm.

Are the late night conditions messing up with her heavy spin? Iga needs to find solutions to win this set, Svito looks too comfortable.