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ICYMI: Safety Jackson Gula has accepted a roster spot with @OhioStateFB. He is the sixth player since 2018 to make the jump to the NCAA program and will spend the 2026 season with three other former Club Football players on Ryan Day’s roster. osuclubfootball.com/2026/07/08/jac…

🍓 #Wimbledon  🇬🇧 | 5U Write Up 🐳 did u guys kno Fritz is 10-5 against Zverev: 🐳 5U 🇺🇸 Taylor Fritz ML (-104/1.96) what gem. what research. what sharp 😎🔪. wow. can’t believe books didn’t know this 🤯. Lock in. 👇 Here’s Why 👇 Roland Garros answered the biggest question of Alexander Zverev’s career. It didn’t answer ALL the questions lurking behind Big Z, however. Just three weeks later, he arrives at Wimbledon as a Grand Slam champion. The market seems to think that means the Taylor Fritz problem has been solved too. That’s wildly ambitious. We’re taking full advantage. My instinct was to ignore the head-to-head. That’s almost always the right play in tennis. Different years. Different surfaces. Different versions of the same players. History has a way of lingering in markets long after it’s stopped mattering. The problem was, the more I watched these matches back (including just 2 weeks ago), the harder it became to dismiss. It stopped looking like a statistic and started looking like a blueprint; a tactical problem Zverev still hasn’t solved. His game has always been about creating time for himself. Give him enough of it and he’ll slowly squeeze the life out of a match. He settles into those heavy cross-court backhand exchanges, takes ownership of the middle of the court, and gradually turns every rally into the kind he wants to play. That’s the dominant, suffocating tennis that finally carried him to a Grand Slam title. But grass has always asked something different—its opposite. The ball stays low. The points get shorter. The windows close before Zverev has time to establish the patterns his game is built around. It’s not that he can’t play on grass. It’s that the surface consistently asks him to win in ways that are less natural. There are good reasons grass is Zverev’s statistically worst surface by win rate. There are good reasons the newest Grand Slam Champion has yet to claim a title on the surface. Then he runs into Taylor Fritz, on his best surface, where he has 5 titles. Outside of the New Two, there may not be a player on tour better equipped to exploit Zverev’s inefficiencies on the surface. Fritz doesn’t just play first-strike tennis—he insists on it. The serve starts the pressure. The first forehand keeps him on the front foot. And his compact backhand turns Zverev’s favorite rally into Fritz’s favorite rally. Instead of surviving the cross-court exchange, he attacks it, redirecting the ball before Zverev ever gets comfortable. That’s why Halle matters still. Fresh off finally winning Roland Garros. Ten straight wins. Playing at home. One of the fastest grass courts in the world. If there was ever a stage for the new-and-improved Zverev to show he’d solved this matchup, that was it. Instead, the match looked remarkably familiar. The market has moved toward Fritz since opening this as a pick’em. I don’t think it’s because bettors are blindly chasing a 10-5 head-to-head. I think it’s because they’re recognizing what the head-to-head has been pointing to all along: this is a tactical matchup before it’s a statistical one. Max Play on The American. Thank you for reading and best of luck, Super Team! 🍎 You can tail these on @thetailgateapp right now (PLEASE use code: SMOOTH ❤️). The best lines anywhere are legally available globally and in your App Store. 🍏 Track ALL my Official Plays on @SharpCircleBet, where I'm independently tracked & verified. Best of luck, Super Team ❤️. Trust the system; cash the slips. 🍐🍊🍌🍉🍇🍈🍑🍍🥥🍒🥭🍋🍎🍏🫐