author of CHANGEOVER, on the rise of Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner; "thoughtful, elegantly written, and frequently very funny" - @nybooks giri@defector.com
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my book, CHANGEOVER, will be out this summer. read about Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, the end of the Big 3, and pretty much any stray thought about tennis still rattling around my skull
preorder it here 🎾
bookshop.org/p/books/changeo…
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never been so at ease heading into Knicks season. 0-82 wouldn’t remove my serene smile. we have broken free of fandom samsara
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I reviewed Francis Fukuyama's new memoir for Defector
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The Boys Are Back in Town @girinathan
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What is Christine Brennan's 10-point plan for Properly Respecting Caitlin Clark?
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Only one Sincaraz match in 2026 and it was that Monte-Carlo final, devastating. We must, once again, remember the good times: simonandschuster.com/books/C…
CHANGEOVER has now been out for exactly one year. Let it be your water in this time of Sincaraz Drought
Remember the good times
ALT Changeover, by Giri Nathan, covers the rise of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, and their rivalry
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on Kei Nishikori's retirement:
"For a guy who wasn’t getting any free points, who was grinding away in both service and return games alike, trying to win by virtue of raw baseline meritocracy, Nishikori took his career about as far as his physical tools could take him." @girinathan
🚨Kei Nishikori has retired. 🚨
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i suspect more and more things will become like this over time: defector.com/the-state-of-th…
Defector Media writer @girinathan on how influencers, hecklers, and selfies disrupted the US Open
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Full interview with @GiriNathan: piped.video/BL8dNHrC_fc
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TONIGHT: @DefectorMedia staff writer & “Changeover” author @GiriNathan chats with Michael Kosta about the spectacle around the U.S. Open and the state of professional tennis
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wrote about Zverev after Roland-Garros, and the same thoughts apply now: defector.com/its-hard-to-fin…
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I like how Jim Courier sees tennis, great to chat with him: defector.com/how-tennis-chan…
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I never cared about tennis before this year but now am obsessed with the U.S. open thanks to this writer whose book I got my wife for her bday. the poetry, the intensity, the blistering humanity of these players... I feel like I’m trapped in a tennis themed area of the Backrooms
at the intersection of broader disconcerting trends—
everything is phone, everything is gambling, and nobody knows how to be around each other in public
—lies the 2026 U.S. Open
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at the intersection of broader disconcerting trends—
everything is phone, everything is gambling, and nobody knows how to be around each other in public
—lies the 2026 U.S. Open
defector.com/the-state-of-th…
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what I wrote about Arthur Ashe Stadium last year—probably a little worse this year
Arthur Ashe is so unbelievably loud it’s insane. I started chatting w my section usher and he said that the amount of people emailing the @usopen to tell them to tell people to stfu is unprecedented and he’s never heard it this loud before in his 25 years of working there.
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yeah acoustics of closed roof definitely worsens this. probably a bigger factor than the changing composition of the crowd though that is also a factor
I think the main reason its worse this year is that the roof is now always closed. When I was courtside for Shelton on Monday night it was just unbelievably loud
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