SI.com · Oct 11, 2017
Mailbag: The Ups and Downs of Nick Kyrgios Continue
Some housekeeping:
1) Last week’s podcast: The great Courtney Nguyen, WTA doyenne, discussed the state of tennis is Asia.
2) Bonus podcast: here’s one we did in in 2015 with Richard Thaler…who won the Nobel Prize for Economics earlier this week.
3. From the full disclosure department, the WTA sent out its media ballots for 2017. I always think there’s something unseemly and unnecessarily secretive about making these votes in anonymity. Media, ostensibly, exist to serve an audience. Why wouldn’t you inform people about your voting? Here were the options. Under each I include my choice and a brief explanation.
Player of the Year
Simona Halep (ROU)
Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP)
Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)