Housekeeping:
• Our most recent podcast guest, Rajeev Ram, talks about life on the ATP Tour. We’re going dark this week but we’ll have another guest next week.
• We had a lot of deeply partisan questions about Maria Sharapova after she won the title in Tianjin. So I’ll say it again: I think the Sharapova story is breaking the way it should. She screwed up. She paid a price. Now she’s working to rehabilitate herself and her ranking. Her most vocal critics can’t complain that she was given star treatment.