HeyJaredHard Hitting
The only newsletter about the frustrations & thrills of recreational tennis.
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A cheek-grazing skirt, a tripod hijack, backhands, Snoopy knows too much (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Dear diary, this is my week in tennis. I write this intro with spirits that are at last, ascending. An unidentified virus put me flat on my back for six days, and is finally, god-willingly beginning to loosen its grip. At one point last week, I couldn’t discern if there were three or four bananas in the fruit bowl. At many points, I cried. But during Zverev’s flavorless win over Trinity Rodman’s boyfriend yesterday, I felt nothing. While I was happy to be past the crying phase, t
My tournament with Nike & Kallmeyer at Grand Central (opens the original)
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Build a Player with comedian and writer, Brian Park (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Build a Player, a series in which I have ordinary tennis partisans stitch together their favorite pro-player qualities to form the ultimate player.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1118" src=
My shonky forehand, getting high before tennis, a hot French woman (opens the original)
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Welcome, hitters, to a new series I’m christening Dear diary, this is my week in tennis. May it be a new method for containing my disorderly thoughts into neat parameters; a new way of arranging words under subheaders as is customary around here. In this dispatch and others like it, I will reveal how I played, what I saw on New York’s courts, what I consumed (watched/read/purchased), and what I talked about in a given week… where tennis is concerned.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" h
Build a Player with BAGEL's Stuart Brumfitt (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Build a Player, a series in which I have ordinary tennis partisans stitch together their favorite pro-player qualities to form the ultimate player. Today’s guest is Stuart Brumfitt, who has been professionally liable for something mouthy internet denizens are obsessed with but mightn’t ever master—having taste—practically his whole career. All’s to say, Stu has an impressive oeuvre as an Editor, having helmed all the good titles (<s
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