bob smith

@Zwxsh Indoor. Easy

One has to go... Which tennis surface is the WORST?

@ramonashelburne @minakimes Played tennis with him often in LA. He was a wonderful man.

No one could have fought this cancer with more grace and courage than my friend, Jason Collins. Devastated for him, his family and this world to lose such a bright light. But what a legacy he’s left us. espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

@buckets_BCM Except that we watched boozer get stuffed at the rim over and over this year.

Boozer looks twice as athletic here as Caleb. Caleb looks almost in a panic and Boozer is fluid. Boozer is like Derrick Henry in being deceptively athletic, which is what has a lot of goofs tripped up about his athleticism.

@GlobalWatchClub Neither

Which collab do you like more? - Omega Moonswatch - AP Pocketswatch

@josemorgado Casper

Ruud Khachanov Jodar Darderi Who is reaching the Rome final?

@ComplexStyle @Swatch @AudemarsPiguet Who wears pocket watches?

Here is an official look at the @Swatch x @AudemarsPiguet......Pocket Watch The pocket watches come in 8 colorways and will release in two styles: Lépine and Savonnette The Lépine-style will retail for $400 The Savonnette-style (blue and yellow styles) will retail for $420 Available May 16th

@Zigmanfreud It’s obviously the husband slowly leaking everything

The story behind this video suddenly coming out now is the key to understanding everything about the Russini/Vrabel scandal… What if… Her husband has been sitting on the 2020 & 2021 footage, had previously confronted her and was wrongly convinced it was over, so when his PI caught them again in 2026, he decided to strategically release all the evidence in an order and timing that would completely screw both of them professionally? It seems impossible to me that the 2020 and 2021 footage didn’t get made public immediately after the 2026 photos/story broke, unless it was all being held by one entity and being released piece by piece as part of a brilliantly evil plot for maximum revenge. 🤔😱🤷‍♂️

@Djoko_UTD 1 or 4. Depends on if Novak is sippin

Which table are you taking ??

@ok6ixx Same thing happened to me in Kyoto. Bless Japanese culture.

I Lost my wallet in Tokyo. Like completely lost it. I had all my cards, my cash, everything. I was freaking out. Went back to every place I'd been that day. Nothing. Went to the police station to file a report, not expecting anything. The officer asked for my name and address where I was staying. Went to check the lost and found. I came back with my wallet. Everything is still in it. All the cash, all the cards, even receipts I didn't care about. I was shocked. Asked where it was found. He checked the report and said "Family Mart, Shibuya. Turned in by an employee 20 minutes after you left." I went back to that Family Mart to thank whoever found it. The employee who turned it in wasn't there, but his coworker said he'll pass along the message. I asked what the person's name was so I could come back. The coworker looked confused and said "he doesn't need thanks. It is normal to return a wallet." Like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Of course you return a lost wallet. Why wouldn't you? I'd been living in the US too long, I guess. Forgot that some places, doing the right thing is just... normal.

@_markpetchey Hope the players unionize bc it’s the only way to ever get their fair share at the slams and everywhere else. They are not getting it now!

Not an easy medium to ask this on but am sure it will be super constructive so here goes: If it’s the players generating the profits for the Slams, aren’t they getting underpaid at their own events? 11 days around $1.1 million winners cheque 15 days at a Major $5 million winners cheque. Rational replies only 😂

@TennisUpdates26 Pay the players not the suits.

Tennis Channel had the best breakdown comparing the percentages to other sports. You figure they'd be happy if they got even a 5-7% increase. Obviously, the top players aren't starving for money over here but they're mostly fighting for the lower ranked losing R1-R2 players

@TennisChannel @BenRothenberg @chris_eubanks96 Francis looking like a 70s rnb singer 🤣🤣🤣

USA players link up for a night out in Rome 🏛️🇺🇸 @chris_eubanks96 bringing everyone together 🤗

@christophclarey I mean there’s no reason to say no! Why would a suit deserve more money for doing nothing?!

Do you support the players in their quest to get a much higher percentage of revenue from the Grand Slam tournaments in prize money & other benefits?

@QGaslighter Just shows hitting ball hard no mean good lol

What an excellent graphic. Just shows how much the game has changed from the days of Federer/Nadal. Fils is actually hitting at a much higher speed, while maintaining the same RPMs as Nadal!

@TheTennisLetter Cheers to their efforts! Great to see these women understand that although they are fine, others are not and it takes everyone to fight for those others to get more.

Aryna Sabalenka says players might need to boycott the Grand Slams if they don’t get a bigger cut of the revenue "Without us there wouldn't be a tournament and there wouldn't be that entertainment. I feel like definitely we deserve to be paid more percentage.” "I think at some point we will boycott it. I feel like that's going to be the only way to fight for our rights." Aryna, along with other fellow top players, issued a statement regarding their disappointment with Roland Garros prize money: “With estimated revenues of over 400 million euros for this year’s tournament, prize money as a percentage of revenue will likely still be less than 15%, far short of the 22% that players have requested to bring the Grand Slams into line with the ATP and WTA Combined 1000 events.” World No. 2 Elena Rybakina also had this to say: “If the majority say we are boycotting, we are not playing, then of course I’m up for it.” “It’s not only on the Grand Slams and it’s not only about raising the prize money. A lot of people are not aware that there is taxes which are big. You even make more prize money, but you giving it all to the taxes.” Coco Gauff: “From the things I’ve seen with other sports, usually to make massive progress and things like this, it takes a union.” “We have to become unionized in some way... We definitely can move more as a collective.” “I definitely think there’s a consensus around that this needs to be addressed for all players of all levels, especially the lower-ranked players, too. I want to leave the sport better than I found it. If I can say I played my part when I retire, that’s something I can be proud of.” Her statement on a possible boycott: “If everyone were to move as one and collaborate, yeah, I can 100% see that.” The players also expressed their desire for better representation, health options and pensions from the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Source: apnews.com/article/french…

@HoqaiPost @no_me_jodar @rafanomejodar He is a great writer

🗣️ Toni Nadal dedicó este lunes su habitual columna en el diario El País a Rafa Jódar tras sus últimas actuaciones: "El madrileño se ha convertido, bajo mi punto de vista, en el mejor jugador de esta nueva generación y en el que ostenta una mayor proyección". "A mediados del año pasado empecé a tener noticias de un joven jugador que estaba irrumpiendo con fuerza en el circuito Challenger, la antesala del circuito ATP. Los entrenadores de la Rafa Nadal Academy que se movían por aquellos torneos me fueron trasladando muy positivos comentarios sobre los rápidos progresos de un joven tenista madrileño, pero no fue hasta finales del año pasado cuando tuve la oportunidad de ver en la televisión a Rafa Jódar disputar varios de sus partidos en el marco de las Next Gen ATP Finals que se vienen celebrando desde hace unos años en Arabia Saudí". "El chico me gustó, sin exageraciones, y me llamó la atención la intensidad de sus piernas, así como la rapidez y la determinación con que se adentraba en la pista para conectar un golpe ganador. A partir de aquel momento empecé a tener interés en él y he ido siguiéndolo con atención en los distintos torneos en los que ha participado. Y, la verdad es que en esos escasos cuatro meses no ha habido ocasión en la que el nivel de su tenis no superara el de la vez anterior". "Su progresión ha sido fulgurante en un muy corto período de tiempo y se ha convertido, bajo mi punto de vista, en el mejor jugador de esta nueva generación y en el que ostenta una mayor proyección. Creo que, en unos años y, casi con toda seguridad me equivocaré y serán unos meses, Rafa se convertirá en uno de los mejores tenistas mundiales, en un firme candidato para complicarles la vida a los mejores jugadores del momento y para luchar por levantar los torneos más importantes". "El madrileño es un jugador bastante completo a nivel técnico. Saca bien, tiene buenos golpes tanto de revés como de drive y, además, es capaz de ejecutarlos ambos con mucha velocidad. No es tan rápido como Carlos Alcaraz, pero suple este aspecto imprimiendo gran intensidad en sus piernas. Tiene buen ojo y pocas veces se le ve apresurado: tiene tiempo para hacer la pausa justa antes del golpeo de la pelota, una cualidad básica para ser un gran jugador". "Tácticamente es agresivo. Intenta llevar la iniciativa siempre y, a la más mínima oportunidad, se adentra en la pista con decisión para forzar un golpe ganador. Además, a nivel mental nos ha mostrado una solidez y una determinación impropias de un jugador que acaba de llegar al circuito profesional". "La pregunta que los aficionados, sobre todo los españoles, nos hacemos es si Rafa es un potencial ganador de un Grand Slam y un futuro aspirante al número uno. Antes de atreverme a contestar, quisiera mencionar unas características comunes de los jugadores que sí lo han conseguido, y de los que Alcaraz y Sinner son, a día de hoy, los máximos exponentes. Son muy resolutivos cuando se deciden a ir a ganar el punto, son capaces de generar golpes ganadores desde cualquier posición y, al mismo tiempo, obligan a sus adversarios a tener que asumir muchos riesgos para anotarse el punto por su parte". "El madrileño, al igual que ellos, es tremendamente expeditivo y audaz cuando quiere finalizar las jugadas. Pero, por el contrario, es todavía algo endeble a la hora de defenderlas. Esta será la faceta de su juego que más tendrá que mejorar en estos próximos meses. Sin embargo, después de haber visto su evolución torneo tras torneo, en muy poco tiempo y en un ascenso incansable, nada me lleva a pensar que no pueda hacerlo". "Debo y quiero pensar, por lo tanto, que puede aspirar tanto a una cosa como a la otra". ℹ️ (Columna de Toni Nadal en @elpais_espana)

@LegionHoops Strawest of straw man arguments by Draymond. Pick apart what the man said, not the man. Bc he didn’t say anything wrong.

Draymond Green calls out Austin Rivers: “Austin, you and I averaged the same amount of points in high school and I say high school cause that's when you were at your best. Should he really talk about my NBA career? The guy received the biggest bailout in US history prior to President Trump bailing out the airlines when his dad gave him $42 million.” (via @DraymondShow)

A decade ago, a mother started a GoFundMe campaign to support her then-15-year-old daughter, Hailey Baptiste’s, burgeoning tennis career. Now, D.C. native Baptiste, 24, has toppled No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and is now ranked among the world’s top 25 players. wapo.st/4tO5xLS

@TukiFromKL Bye. The people of the state will be fine without Meta.

Meta just threatened to shut down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in an entire US state.. New Mexico sued them for child safety failures.. a jury found them liable.. fined them $375 million.. and now the state wants actual reforms.. age verification, separate teen accounts, real protections.. Meta's response.. "those changes are too hard.. we'd rather leave" a $1.5 trillion company is telling 2 million people it would rather cut them off than make its platform safe for children.. the state attorney general called it a PR stunt.. said Meta rewrites its own rules constantly, redesigns products on demand, and has bent to the demands of dictators to keep market access.. but protecting kids in New Mexico.. that's where they draw the line

@christophclarey @PatrickMcEnroe This goes for all sports imo. I don’t understand why American collegiate sports keeps allowing foreign athletes when it doesn’t work the same the other way around. It’s our schools, should be our kids. It’s not that complicated.

,@patrickmcenroe on the lack of Americans in American college #tennis. "For families weighing the significant time and financial investment required to pursue high-level junior tennis, the calculation is also shifting. If the college pathway appears diminished, the incentive to pursue it weakens." wsj.com/opinion/where-…