Jon Wertheim breaks down the No. 2 seed’s remarks. Plus, Emma Navarro’s star turn and Ons Jabeur’s future.
Clapback? Whining? … after defeating Holger Rune in the Round of 16 at Wimbledon. If you are among the 17 people who missed it, here’s his
5. By the same token … shouldn’t this be beneath him? You’re the best men’s player in the sport’s history. You have won this event seven times. Your kids are there. It’s Centre Court. You have played a dynamite match. And you’re calling out a few Holger Rune fans … who might or might be sprinkling boos with the familiar Ruuune cheer? Why?
Jon, where did Emma Navarro come from? I consider myself an engaged tennis fan. And I did not hear her name much before this year. She is really solid!really solid. Where does she come from? She was born in New York in 2001 and hails from South Carolina, where she spent most of her youth. As for lineage, her father is a significant player in tennis circles. But only recently did I make the connection that she is the granddaughter of Frank Navarro, an Ivy League football coach of distinction.
Navarro charged past Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff before falling to Jasmine Paolini in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. / Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports• Was I the last person to realize that the lovely Ons Jabuer shared initials with disgraced O.J. Simpson?desire to start a family To me, the best point in favor of the five-set format is not the equal-work-equal-pay flawed argument. It is what Mike alludes to. We think about classic matches and inevitably they are five-setters. We talk in heroic terms about marathons and comebacks down 0–2. The women foreclose this by playing best-of-three matches. But, on a balance of interests, it’s not enough to change the format.is a terrible decision.
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