About this episode
Since we last spoke, the entire Olympic tennis tournament and the Canadian Open came and went. Our coverage isn’t comprehensive but more of a riff on the most interesting bits to us . We devote a good chunk of time to the tennis world’s incursions into the “gender controversy” involving Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif, including ugly, often defamatory statements by tennis legends and one current player (the latter being the only one to retract). We bounce over to Canada for some disjointed thoughts on the National Bank Open and finally touch on the end of an era, the dissolution of the stormy Stefanos-Apostolos working relationship. 01:15 The Jamaican Olympic tragedy 11:00 Tennis at the Olympics: Novak, Zheng, Nadalcaraz 23:00 The myth of the badly behaved American trio (it's not a trio) 33:25 Andy Murray’s last dance 34:54 Tennis covers itself in shame during the Imane Khelif “gender controversy” 51:35 Policing women’s bodies is not liberation, it’s more of the same 56:25 Random Canadian Open thoughts 67:30 Shapovalov defaulted 70:35 Stef and Dad break up