@girinathan

author of CHANGEOVER, on the rise of Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner; "thoughtful, elegantly written, and frequently very funny" - @nybooks [email protected]

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my book, CHANGEOVER, will be out this summer. read about Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, the end of the Big 3, and pretty much any stray thought about tennis still rattling around my skull preorder it here 🎾 bookshop.org/p/books/changeo…
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Ok lets not literally test this
giri (read CHANGEOVER)@girinathanOct 20
never been so at ease heading into Knicks season. 0-82 wouldn’t remove my serene smile. we have broken free of fandom samsara
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never been so at ease heading into Knicks season. 0-82 wouldn’t remove my serene smile. we have broken free of fandom samsara
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tombstone engraved in the AI restaurant poster font
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I reviewed Francis Fukuyama's new memoir for Defector defector.com/francis-fukuyam…

Francis Fukuyama Is The Last Grandpa | Defector

If you’re not following Francis Fukuyama on Instagram, you’re missing out. His posts exemplify a Boomer picaresque aesthetic: the occasional typo in his captions, pictures of electronic parts that...

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The Second Serve
@the2ndserveOct 9
The Boys Are Back in Town @girinathan thesecondserve.com/the-statu…

The Status Quo Has Been Restored - The Second Serve - Home of OPEN Tennis Magazine

Alcaraz and Djokovic restore the status quo.

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What is Christine Brennan's 10-point plan for Properly Respecting Caitlin Clark? defector.com/christine-brenn…

Christine Brennan Has Fully Lost It Over Caitlin Clark | Defector

If you listen to a certain subset of the media—not necessarily the sports media—the state of the WNBA is dire. A generational talent is being squandered. Weak leadership has failed a league on the...

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Only one Sincaraz match in 2026 and it was that Monte-Carlo final, devastating. We must, once again, remember the good times: simonandschuster.com/books/C…

Changeover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY * THE NEW YORKER * NPR * TOWN & COUNTRY * The story of Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and th...

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giri (read CHANGEOVER)@girinathanAug 21
CHANGEOVER has now been out for exactly one year. Let it be your water in this time of Sincaraz Drought Remember the good times
Changeover, by Giri Nathan, covers the rise of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, and their rivalry

ALT Changeover, by Giri Nathan, covers the rise of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, and their rivalry

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on Kei Nishikori's retirement:
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"For a guy who wasn’t getting any free points, who was grinding away in both service and return games alike, trying to win by virtue of raw baseline meritocracy, Nishikori took his career about as far as his physical tools could take him." @girinathan 🚨Kei Nishikori has retired. 🚨 thesecondserve.com/kei-nishi…

Kei Nishikori: A Wizard Prepares to Disappear - The Second Serve - Home of OPEN Tennis Magazine

Kei Nishikori plays his last Japan Open

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i suspect more and more things will become like this over time: defector.com/the-state-of-th…

The State Of The U.S. Open Is The State Of Us | Defector

It’s being shouted from all corners: The U.S. Open has become an overcrowded, overpriced circus awash in influencers, aspirational influencers, corporate stooges, drunken buffoons, brand activations,...

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The Daily Show
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Defector Media writer @girinathan on how influencers, hecklers, and selfies disrupted the US Open
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loved talking tennis on the daily show
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Full interview with @GiriNathan: youtu.be/BL8dNHrC_fc

Giri Nathan On Tennis & The Spectacle Of The U.S. Open | The Daily...

Defector Media staff writer & cofounder and bestselling author, Gir...

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Full interview with @GiriNathan: youtu.be/BL8dNHrC_fc

Giri Nathan On Tennis & The Spectacle Of The U.S. Open | The Daily...

Defector Media staff writer & cofounder and bestselling author, Gir...

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TONIGHT: @DefectorMedia staff writer & “Changeover” author @GiriNathan chats with Michael Kosta about the spectacle around the U.S. Open and the state of professional tennis
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we wrote a few brief Annie Dillard odes at Defector, here’s part of mine:
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wrote about Zverev after Roland-Garros, and the same thoughts apply now: defector.com/its-hard-to-fin…
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I like how Jim Courier sees tennis, great to chat with him: defector.com/how-tennis-chan…

How Tennis Channel’s Jim Courier Sees The Sport | Defector

The quality of the average tennis broadcast has skyrocketed in recent years. Analysts assume far more curiosity and intelligence on the viewer’s part than I can ever remember, and they’re no longer...

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mark leidner@markleidnerSep 10
I never cared about tennis before this year but now am obsessed with the U.S. open thanks to this writer whose book I got my wife for her bday. the poetry, the intensity, the blistering humanity of these players... I feel like I’m trapped in a tennis themed area of the Backrooms
giri (read CHANGEOVER)@girinathanSep 10
at the intersection of broader disconcerting trends— everything is phone, everything is gambling, and nobody knows how to be around each other in public —lies the 2026 U.S. Open defector.com/the-state-of-th…

The State Of The U.S. Open Is The State Of Us | Defector

It’s being shouted from all corners: The U.S. Open has become an overcrowded, overpriced circus awash in influencers, aspirational influencers, corporate stooges, drunken buffoons, brand activations,...

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at the intersection of broader disconcerting trends— everything is phone, everything is gambling, and nobody knows how to be around each other in public —lies the 2026 U.S. Open defector.com/the-state-of-th…

The State Of The U.S. Open Is The State Of Us | Defector

It’s being shouted from all corners: The U.S. Open has become an overcrowded, overpriced circus awash in influencers, aspirational influencers, corporate stooges, drunken buffoons, brand activations,...

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Talking U.S. Open with some tennis heads this Tuesday, 9/8. I'll be signing CHANGEOVER paperbacks too. Free to attend
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what I wrote about Arthur Ashe Stadium last year—probably a little worse this year
Zara Rahim@ZaraRahimSep 2
Arthur Ashe is so unbelievably loud it’s insane. I started chatting w my section usher and he said that the amount of people emailing the @usopen to tell them to tell people to stfu is unprecedented and he’s never heard it this loud before in his 25 years of working there.
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yeah acoustics of closed roof definitely worsens this. probably a bigger factor than the changing composition of the crowd though that is also a factor xitter.cf/thewoffword/status/209…
Jwo@thewoffwordSep 3
I think the main reason its worse this year is that the roof is now always closed. When I was courtside for Shelton on Monday night it was just unbelievably loud
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