I waver here between trying to capture the tennis vox populi on the one hand and, on the other, trying to steer the week’s tennis talk to a new direction.
To the first point, we were flooded—predictably—with Serena emails. To the latter point, this has come at the expense of plenty of other stories, not least the triumphs of Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic. I have half a mind to zig where the world zags, and jump right to questions about Djokovic’s underrated slice and whether Osaka can win on the faster courts of Australia and whether Jack Sock might drop singles for doubles.