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Mailbag: Wrapping Up Wimbledon, and the Case For a Fifth-Set Tiebreak at 12-12 in the Slams

Time for a speed round to wrap up Wimbledon 2018. I’m also wondering if—amid all the storylines—we have made a big enough deal about the fact that 16-year-old Tseng Chun-hsin of Taiwan was the boys’ runner-up in Australia, won the French Open and then won Wimbledon over Britain’s own Jack Draper. Talk about a story hiding in plain sight….

This week’s podcast—a Wimbledon recap—will be up tomorrow.

b) I’ve been asked to publicize this and, in the spirit of good soldiering, I shall: “Strokes of Genius” was the No. 1 ranked documentary on iTunes this week. (And that’s without Federer and/or Nadal reaching the Wimbledon final!