Daddy Lessons

The Body Serve

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