What’s it about?

• Tennis.

• Tennis fans.

• Bashing tennis players.

• Explaining tennis with GIFs and news.

• Noodling off their statistics and on-court ballistics.

• How tennis overlaps with other sports and pop culture.

• Folklore: Andreas Seppi's perversely absent eyes as he dulled Roger Federer’s tennis into a holey slice of Swiss cheese, 2015. That man is already embalmed.

• Science: The mechanics of clay tennis, the silly ways "analysts" fluff its description, and the reason its technical beauty is lost on the larger readership.

• History: I might document Rafael Nadal’s best matches. I’m a longtime fan.

…and lots of other things.

What’s the newsletter’s tone?

This dragon flaps somewhere in between meme material and hardboiled spite:.

He’s a fan writing for other fans, zooming into issues that suddenly matter to him, borrowing the specifics from real experts, then attenboroughing for your pleasure.

Expect GIFs of famous rallies, exposition on the logic behind them, Dostoevsky’s quotes in Medvedev’s head, the white lies of white tennis fans, and a flair for the overdramatic.

As we Indians say, this is “timepass.”

Why should you subscribe to it, huh?

It doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Where to contact me?

Email:
benhanensballtalks@gmail.com

Phone:
+91 7738642044

Address:
305/306, H Wing, Palm Court Society, Mindspace, Malad West