Jon Wertheim answers your questions on the Paris Games, the state of doubles and the politics of retirement.
. Because it is 2024, and dignity can be a sparse commodity, I am obliged to tell you to smash the like button and subscribe, rate and review. I am also duty-bound to invite you to our live show in Cincinnati on Aug. 8, the Friday before the tournament.As a longtime Rafael Nadal fan, all I can say at this point is this is painful. Please make it stop.It is a Hague-violating international crime to tell athletes it’s time to quit.
In order to differentiate Olympic tennis, perhaps there could be a team format. Figure skating has both a team and individual events and it works well. Borrow from World Team Tennis if needed; shorten the sets, and make national representation truly mean something. Perhaps it would encourage the top names to play mixed as well!• Well played. Channel Triple Crown, it is. What if Alcaraz wins the U.S. Open? The Summer Triple Crown? He will have three on the trot, on three surfaces.
Like many of you, I wish it were prioritized by broadcast decision-makers. But I’m all-in on Olympic tennis. And suspect most fans are as well.charity or mercy and B) especially with dangerous opponents—and 22-time major winners at their venue of choice certainly meet this description—you cannot start handing out games.
Talking to players about this, it’s clear that the overwhelming majority would value a singles major above—if slightly—an Olympic gold. But I would submit that a doubles gold in the Games would mean more to most players than a major title. There’s a chicken-and-egg problem. The doubles players complain that the ATP has not properly invested in marketing the product. The ATP—factions of it, anyway—respond that the market has spoken and there is no sense investing in the product. Instead, we get “innovations” like. But this has been the liminal state of doubles for decades. And I suspect this will continue. The ATP won’t euthanize doubles. But it won’t make an additional investment.
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