Jon Wertheim answers your lingering questions from the Games, unpacking doubles results, eye-catching player remarks and some interpersonal drama.
• A reminder that Andy Roddick and I will be doing a live show in conjunction with the Cincinnati Open this Friday at a microbrewery near the event. Feel free to stop by.Also, we’ll be doing some additional shows in and around New York during the U.S. Open. Details to come.Bummer . Zero atmosphere there and difficult to get to with traffic.• The tennis event at the 2012 Olympics was held at the All England Club, d/b/a Wimbledon.
Other options: Tennis events were held at UCLA during the 1984 Olympics. The hitch: Other UCLA facilities will be used, so there will be congestion. Another idea: Ojai. Though, again, it might be oppressively hot. San Diego is perhaps too far. Pepperdine in Malibu? The clubs of Beverly Hills where Naomi Osaka, among others, trains? What about celebrity home courts—Jimmy Goldstein, Pete Sampras, the Robert Evans-Zaslav estate?• I’m, admittedly, in the tank for the Olympics.
I know the U.S. Open gets record crowds every year but it seems like such an insult to tennis fans to charge such fees.• I am a capitalist. I believe in the market, much as I believe in gravity. If people are willing to pay $200 for grounds passes, that’s what grounds passes are worth. The USTA may be a non-profit. But it seeks to find streams of revenue, which fund the growth and promotion of tennis.
None of the transgressions were felonies. None of these were national embarrassments. None rose to the level of scandal. But they were all poor.? Perhaps it’s better to compartmentalize it the way you would a let-cord winner—it’s only one point; it takes a minimum of 48 to win a match; we’ll be okay here—rather than turn it into a prolonged summit and even invoke Serena Williams. Your opponent bothers you? Fine. Take it up with them in the sanctity of the locker room.
Djokovic's gold medal will do a lot for his already impressive legacy, but he'll receive zero ranking points from the championship. / Amber Searls-USA TODAY SportsYet again, the theory that doubles teams of top singles players can beat doubles specialists has been disabused. When will U.S. team organizers realize, admit and modify behavior for team selections?
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