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giri nathan
@girinathan.bsky.social
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CHANGEOVER, my tennis book about Alcaraz & Sinner, just came out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Changeover/Giri-Nathan/9781668076248 giri[at]defector[dot]com
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · Nov 21
Over 20 years I saw Rafael Nadal so many different ways - an intruder, a sage, a way through my own pain

Farewell Rafa

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Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain | Defector
Nadal was the destroyer of context, the man who played every point in vacuum, through comebacks and blowouts with the same equanimous mind and full effort.
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Josh Tam @chinkinthearmor.bsky.social · 3h
finally got @girinathan.bsky.social book from the library. halfway thru it and i may now be fully tennis pilled. enough to bankrupt myself for a jan melbourne flight
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 6h
you are allowed to spam me in broken English. you are not allowed to spam me like one of those official Netflix accounts talking about "seasoned food"
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 6h
I was fine with spam bots until they started talking like this
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 6h
sincaraz book was really a trojan horse to write more about medvedev so hopefully some publisher takes me up on that...

also @joshuablevin.bsky.social just said that these two should go on tour together and i'd watch that over Fedal no doubt
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 6h
tired: playing good tennis the whole time
wired: scintillating, confusing mix of good and bad
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 7h
tired: Sincaraz
wired: Tienvedev
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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 2d
I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
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maitreyi anantharaman @maitreyiaa.bsky.social · 2d
excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...
The Hottest Ticket In Vegas? Cathy Engelbert's Press Conference | Defector
LAS VEGAS — An Aces game overloads the senses well before the game itself begins. The national anthem features indoor fireworks. Seats rumble from the bass of the speakers. There’s so much to look at,...
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Defector @defector.com · 5d
Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump's likeness: defector.com/treasury-dep...
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 5d
lots going on here but my favorite part: photos the festival posted of Kevin Hart enjoying himsekf in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 5d
Learner Tien appreciation club is booming
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The Second Serve @the2ndserve.bsky.social · 5d
This kid from Irvine, Calif., has accumulated more top 10 wins this season than anyone besides Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner. -- @girinathan.bsky.social

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Killer of Giants - The Second Serve
Learner Tien has just moved inside the top 40 after hiring as coach the greatest-ever Asian-American tennis player from Southern California: Michael Chang.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 5d
Heartbreaking that our up and coming authors are forced to slum with a den of beer-soaked rowdies simply to discuss literature
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 5d
hilariously unlikely assortment of fellas - @davidjroth.bsky.social, @pjsauer.bsky.social, and me - in a Today Show segment this morning. also @michaelkosta.bsky.social but that's way less unlikely
How This Sports Book Chat Series Helps People Find Community
Squawkin’ Sports is a book chat series created and hosted by Patrick Sauer and David J. Roth that is helping people find community. NBC’s Sam Brock sits down with Sauer and Roth to talk about their mi...
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 7d
thank you for coming!!! glad you had a good time
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John Doyle @sportswritersinc.bsky.social · 8d
Episode 97 of the @sportswritersinc.bsky.social podcast is up with @girinathan.bsky.social of @Defector.com, author of "Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's #Tennis"

Great talk! Do it up!

Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6SGV...
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 8d
starting a new frozen yogurt venture with james harden
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 9d
this is tomorrow! rsvp here:

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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 20d
NYC: 9/30 I'll be at McNally Jackson Seaport talking tennis writing with my friends @knguyen.bsky.social and Chloe Cooper Jones

bring a CHANGEOVER to get it signed (or get one day of). I'll have some hats/stickers, too

RSVP here:

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Kate H @rivercat0338.bsky.social · 10d
My hold on The Changeover by @girinathan.bsky.social came in this morning and I've already LOL'ed 3 times in the first chapter. Great stuff. #tennis
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Sidewalk enjoyer @chajax.bsky.social · 12d
Just asked my library to purchase One of the Boys by @dirtbagqueer.rocks , Changeover by @girinathan.bsky.social , and Clodia of Rome by @dougboin.bsky.social . Mostly because I want to read them, but maybe someone else will too. Support your local library!
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 12d
It's just "Let's Remember Some Guys"
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 13d
[Drake voice] Comptrolla
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 13d
loved talking about this haunted, intricate table tennis novel. definitely go read UNDERSPIN

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E.Y. Zhao On The Cloistered, Competitive, Slippery-Floored World Of Table Tennis | Defector
E.Y. Zhao’s Underspin is a novel about a table tennis prodigy, Ryan Lo. The book opens with his funeral. From there, it’s a beautiful story, told obliquely through the perspectives of people who knew ...
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 13d
eyeblack, my newsletter where I document my research on sports, climate, and transportation has 117 subs already!

I'm floored, thank you.

But now that you've let me into your inbox, like the sinners from Sinners, I've developed an insatiable hunger for more.

Could we get to 150 today?
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A newsletter about my sponsored research on the sports, transportation and climate change. Keep your eye on the ball.
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 14d
nice review of CHANGEOVER in @sportsillustrated.bsky.social

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Changeover: Giri Nathan Sets Stage for Sinner-Alcaraz Rivalry in New Book
Giri Nathan's debut book details the rise of the 'Sincaraz' rivalry, the evolution from the Big Three to the New Two, and explores the art of racquet smashing.
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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 14d
most knowledgeable fanbase in the world, they love all the lore. i like how the shanghai crowd loudly gasped when meddy and stef posed for a photo together
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