How Many Seconds Of Denis Shapovalov's Rap Can You Tolerate?
Denis Shapovalov is a favorite around these parts. The 19-year-old plays a stirring, free-wheeling style of tennis…
Tennis Prodigy Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Past The Internet Hype And Looks Like The Truth
As of today there are only two teenagers in the top 100 of men’s tennis. The game skews older than ever, and a player…
This 20-Year-Old Travel Vlogger Adds Some Much-Needed Fresh Blood To Men's Tennis
This gripe will be all too familiar to anyone who has followed men’s tennis, but the sport doesn’t have any gosh-darned…
Every Promising Tennis Player Must Own Tomas Berdych At Some Point
At this point in time, Tomas Berdych is more useful as a benchmark for the progress of young people than as a tennis…
Shapo Begged On His Knees
Kei Nishikori, you were missed. The Japanese star popped a tendon in his right wrist in mid-August, closed up shop for…
Frances Tiafoe Beat The Rest Of His Class And Got Himself A Title
Twenty-year-old Frances Tiafoe came to Delray Beach as a wild card entry with a wild forehand. He left as the youngest…
Shapo Beats The Bot
A rite of passage, for any young tennis player, is figuring out how to defeat the servebot. A servebot is a large…
Shapo Is Everywhere At Once
It’s Friday afternoon, as good a time as any for your sporadic and entertaining Denis Shapovalov update. Today he was…
Shapo Stalled Out Two Points From The Finish Line
The last time Denis Shapovalov met Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, he could have easily been confused for a half-fluke, a lucky…
Denis Shapovalov And Coco Vandeweghe Both Had Banana Trouble At The Australian Open
Tennis players often snack on bananas during changeovers. The light meal is routine and usually without drama, but Day…
How's Shapo? Shapo's Pretty Good.
Denis Shapovalov, Canadian golden child with over-cinched hats and a liberated style of play, was the breakout player…
Give It Up For Denis Shapolarolovov
Before first-round play at the Brisbane International Monday, an announcer chopped up Canadian wonderteen Denis…
Shapo Takes Time Out From Tennis Match To Consider The Fine Coffee Of Milan
Denis Shapovalov is in the middle of a tense five-set match against Andrey Rublev at the NextGen tournament in Milan.…
Promising Tennis Youths Subjected To Awkward, Humiliating On-Stage Ritual
This week, the highest-ranked male tennis players 21 and under have been assembled in Milan to play a year-end…
Praise Shapo
With today’s first-round victory at Basel, Canadian wonderteen Denis Shapovalov has officially qualified for Milan, the…
Hail Shapo
Eighteen-year-old Denis Shapovalov cracked the top 50 this week, becoming the youngest player to do so since an…
Apparently Shapo Did Not Know How To Hit A Dang Slice As Of Three Months Ago
The slice is one of the most basic tools of tennis, a versatile shot that can do any of the following and more: safely…
Where Did El Shapo Come From?
A friend of mine from Vancouver likes to joke that it’s possible to spot a product of Tennis Canada—Canada’s national…
The Kids Are Winning—Just Not The Ones We Thought
Sure, tell a story about tall boy who’d grown out of the pinstriped pajamas that Pharrell Williams designed for him,…