Mailbag: Is Roger Federer's ATP-WTA Merger Proposal Realistic?

Hey all you cool cats and kittens…

Housekeeping:

1) We had no Beyond the Baseline podcast last week but the wonderful Jamie Lisanti and I spoke about the Williams/Williams final at the 1999 Miami event for The Record, a new podcast from SI.

2) This week’s Beyond the Baseline podcast guest, Dr. Jonathan Katz, talks sports psychology and the challenges athletes face during times of inactivity.

3) Spoiler alert: Dr. Katz—who’s worked with winners of majors, lower-ranked players and the of Texas tennis program—is offering to volunteer his services to professional players during this time of inactivity.

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I filed the Mailbag last week and then, boom, Roger Federer drops a tweet and tennis goes…