Lu 🌒

side for tennis — i follow from @stuoiesimba

[michelle-ma-cherie]

true goat

[billiejeanbling]

edo_bove: There is a thread that binds my Budapest to your Paris and it runs on passion, friendship, and love for sport.

But also on the sense of sacrifice, pride, and feeling of having given everything you have.

Thank you for once again making me feel part of your family.

We are so proud of you 🫶🏻

[mousemannation]

as we come closer to the likely outcome i think i have figured out what i want to say about this. this being zverev winning a slam.

i understand that winning a slam comes with an amount of pedigree within tennis, and it’s an achievement that comes with a lot of publicity and lauding. on this level i understand the frustration with him winning one.

what i dont agree with is the idea that this fundamentally changes anything. zverev is good at tennis, this is not a moral judgement. he has been a serious contender for many years. as much as it feels vindicating to call him a choker, to make fun of him for not winning one- that is ultimately a selfish feeling because it doesn’t serve any purpose. and in some ways directly obfuscates and trivialises the real issue.

obviously, i don’t think making a joke here and there is necessarily wrong, but i do sometimes worry the overwhelming amount of posts treating players beating him like a game is diluting the seriousness. the posts that only ever call him the rat or another nickname, the posts congratulating people for “exterminating him”- i worry these miss the point. he isn’t some funny little issue, he’s a serial domestic abuser. whether or not a player beats him isn’t them doing a favour for women or for viewers who don’t like him, there is no morality in it.

if it’s more important for you to be able to make fun of him for not reaching some arbitrary point of success than it is for him to be recognised and face consequences for being a serial abuser than your priorities are wrong. i don’t actually think anyone is doing this on purpose, but i think it’s easy to get caught up in our own anger, our own desire to feel better short term.

the first allegations came out i believe in 2020, if zverev had won a slam before that it would not have changed the fact that he’s an abuser. if he’d won every slam since it would not change that fact. on the other hand, if he lost every slam first round it would also not change anything. the truth of it though is that he does make deep runs frequently. that’s why he’s been top 5 for so long, and him being top 5 for so long has already made him a face of men’s tennis regardless of his slam success.

no longer being able to say he’s a choker or he’s a slamless loser or whatever insult in that vein you want is not even remotely relevant when the real reason people should be upset is that he is, once again, a serial domestic abuser.

maybe flavio pulls off a miracle and he wins this one, zverev will continue to be a contender in the next and the next and the next. the issue has never been that he might win one, but that he’s able to compete at all.

[michelsens]

don’t be mad at flavio, jakub, or rafa for losing. don’t be mad at sincaraz or taylor fritz for not being there to beat him. be mad at the slams and the atp for allowing him to play, to be a public figure.

[anisimoved]

like what is there even to say? an abuser who shouldn’t be allowed to play won and now he’s going to be turned into some story about resilience and perseverance. the world cup is starting soon and i genuinely don’t have enough fingers to count how many abusers and assaulters will be out there playing and being celebrated.

women’s suffering means nothing. i’m just so fucking tired of it. i feel angry, helpless and exhausted watching the same thing happen over and over again

[livhelen]

Flavio cobolli u are still amazing and have a incredible future ahead of you keep believing♥️

[suncaraz]

che schifoooo il quarto set mi aveva anche dato speranza :///

[gamesetandmath]

flavio trained in chatrier for the public that had tickets for the final, invited a fan to hit with him and walked in court with the ball kids so they didn’t miss out on his chance he’s so lovely

[advantagealcaraz]

if you’d told me two weeks ago that a polish woman and an italian man would make it to the rg final, i would’ve been like ugh what a boring tournament. just hand the trophies to iga and jannik already

[cadillacjohnf1]

💖 MAJA CHWALIŃSKA, FRENCH OPEN FINALIST 💖

[lonelyyhar]

He was having the run of his life. He was back, he was smiling. He remembered how fun it can be, how good it can be. Fuck everything genuinely. I cannot stop thinking about one of his post match interview where with tears in his eyes and a wobbly voice he said “this reminded me that I am actually good at this. That my body works”. And to end it like this. I fucking hate this so much

[sinnersnote]

Italy's Sara Errani and Italy's Andrea Vavassori celebrate with the mixed doubles trophy after winning their final match against Evan King of the U.S. and Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski. French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - June 4, 2026.

Photographed by: Stephane Mahe

[coachplayer]

mirra andreeva 2026.06.04 x

[raddocanu]

MIRRA ANDREEVA

Throws her racket in celebration after defeating Marta Kostyuk (6-3, 6-1) in the semifinals of the 2026 French Open to advance to the finals. This is her second grand Roland-Garros semifinal and first Grand Slam final. She will meet the winner of the semifinal match; Maja Chwalinska v. Diana Shnaider. The winner of this tournament will win their first Grand Slam

[channelslam]

19 year old Mirra Andreeva (RUS) snaps Marta Kostyuk's (UKR) clay win streak in straight sets to reach her maiden grand slam final. She is the first player born after 2005 to make a slam final, and is the 5th youngest RG women's finalist. She is the youngest WTA player to reach a slam final since Coco Gauff in RG 2022.

[tienvedev]

u rly do love 2 see it

[tennisribbons]

I think what makes the possibility of zverev winning this slam also so horrific is that it’s not just going to be someone winning who doesn’t deserve it, but how it’s also going to reinforce the normalisation of just accepting abusers in sports spaces. Tennis is not the first sport that this has happened too, in fact we just had a club winning one of the biggest trophies in football for a second year in a row who has someone accused of rape as one of their key players. But it’s absolutely disheartening to see sports institutions bow down to these men again and again and give them more power and ultimately make all of these spaces less safe for women. And it’s especially disgusting if you consider that for a sport that prides itself on equality it systematically ignores the abuse of women. Not just on the women’s tour with coaches and team members, but also with abusers on the men’s tour. None of that is normal and should be accepted but both the tours and the media just seem to act like there’s nothing wrong and in fact completely fine. Then I remember that the media’s main focus for women still seems to be on getting women interested in sports through ‘fashion and gossip’, as if we’re incapable of getting interested in the sports itself, and it’s like yeah, of course you’re not taking any of this seriously. Because their golden boys will always be more important than anything else and god forbid any of these men actually have to take responsibility for their actions because that could ‘waste away their talent’. Meanwhile when a female generational talent gets wasted away because of abuse from their team members none of them really talk about it and everyone is just supposed to look away and pretend to not see what is going on. If you do show empathy and concern you get told you’re ‘parasocial and speculating’ because god forbid public institutions actually try to help the women stuck in toxic environments. No, we’re more busy with giving power to abusers and treating women like an afterthought because why change a broken system when it has worked for so long.