Hello everyone. As always, we’ll start with some procedural stuff.
• The most recent SI/Tennis Channel podcast features poet and new tennis author Rowan Ricardo Phillips, who was excellent:
• Next up: “Daily Show” correspondent and former University of Illinois tennis stalwart Mike Kosta
• Speaking of Illinois tennis…
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When is tennis going to stop its environmentally unfriendly use of plastic? Despite the global outcry about how plastic is killing our oceans, tennis still continues to use plastic, single-use water bottles and plastic bags for racquets, among other things.