It’s been a little while since we checked in on pro tennis, but the weeks immediately following the U.S. Open seem like the best time to do it. While there’s plenty of tennis that happens after the U.S. Open, including the year-end championships for both the WTA and the ATP, the Open signifies the end of the most popular portion of the tennis season, and essentially launches the beginning of the end of the calendar. It’s in this time period – between the Open wrapping up in early September and the season resuming at full speed in January – that we tend to stop and take stock of the sport. [Read more…]
