You are such a beautiful and witty writer Andrea. Thanks for the erudite insights and laughs along the way. Buy the stone; imagine it under your bare feet on a hot summer day. You can’t go wrong.
Interest abides! I know a lot of bloggers and podcasters do mail bag and AMA episodes from time to time. I hope you’ll do them frequently. There are so many things about tennis and the tours that no one tells us fans about. We’d love to know more, and Andrea Drink is the perfect source for tennis wisdom.
Andrea Petkovic (or Drink as the case may be) damn you for being so funny as to make me snort with laughter. Just how good of a writer are you?! I mean… gems such as these don’t come everyday: "Loïs Boisson has crushed that reputation like I crushed on Marat Safin 15 years ago. Strongly, determinedly and shyly." “Meanwhile, my emotional cardiogram always looked like waves of the Atlantic. Manic and wild”
Thank you for writing this substack, please continue to do so and hopefully it will buy you many many Italian floor tiles for your house in Germany.
Thanks for the insight, Andrea. Sounds like Carlos picked a very good time to enter that wonderful zone. Timing is everything and Sinner was playing such superb tennis with no let up. It made for extraordinary tennis.
Loïs Boisson is and was truly superb not I’m a tennis player or anything like that but like drink I know what I like and this young player has a very strong career ahead.❤️
Andrea, there is nothing I look forward to so much as reading your thoughts from wherever you are in the world. At one moment I am laughing out loud and in the next I am understanding a little bit more the crazy life of a tennis player. Thank you, thank you for writing to us and sharing your insights and amazingly poignant words. And you should definitely get the Italian stone. . . If something moves you like this you know you want to live with it for a long time.
Spot on about the entire, to me, reason that Sinner did not prevail, not just in the tie break but for the entire match. You simply cannot serve in the 50% range on firsts and have a chance to win. Had he been playing a 24 year old Agassi with that serve stat, the match would be 3 sets.
Agreed. I thought if Sinners first serve was in, he was on the offensive during the point and he did wind up winning 70% of those points, but he was close to just getting half his first serves in and it was 50/50 that he'd win his second serve. A stressful senario. I wonder if coach Andrea's tennis acumen had the chance to talk to an obliging Cahill, what would they discus as how Sinner can get more first serves in or how he can win more second serves. Is it as simple as the old adage of "Hit 10,000 balls by Friday and you'll be good"?
You are such a beautiful and witty writer Andrea. Thanks for the erudite insights and laughs along the way. Buy the stone; imagine it under your bare feet on a hot summer day. You can’t go wrong.
Interest abides! I know a lot of bloggers and podcasters do mail bag and AMA episodes from time to time. I hope you’ll do them frequently. There are so many things about tennis and the tours that no one tells us fans about. We’d love to know more, and Andrea Drink is the perfect source for tennis wisdom.
Andrea Petkovic (or Drink as the case may be) damn you for being so funny as to make me snort with laughter. Just how good of a writer are you?! I mean… gems such as these don’t come everyday: "Loïs Boisson has crushed that reputation like I crushed on Marat Safin 15 years ago. Strongly, determinedly and shyly." “Meanwhile, my emotional cardiogram always looked like waves of the Atlantic. Manic and wild”
Thank you for writing this substack, please continue to do so and hopefully it will buy you many many Italian floor tiles for your house in Germany.
Thanks for the insight, Andrea. Sounds like Carlos picked a very good time to enter that wonderful zone. Timing is everything and Sinner was playing such superb tennis with no let up. It made for extraordinary tennis.
Loïs Boisson is and was truly superb not I’m a tennis player or anything like that but like drink I know what I like and this young player has a very strong career ahead.❤️
Thanks for the insights and answering my question, Andrea Getränk!
Had black coffee plus raspberry cake right before reading this. On my way to Italy. Check ✅
Andrea, there is nothing I look forward to so much as reading your thoughts from wherever you are in the world. At one moment I am laughing out loud and in the next I am understanding a little bit more the crazy life of a tennis player. Thank you, thank you for writing to us and sharing your insights and amazingly poignant words. And you should definitely get the Italian stone. . . If something moves you like this you know you want to live with it for a long time.
Andrea is one of the best tennis writers today.
Extra like for the Martini Hingis. Well prepared over a few sentences, and then dropped elegantly ...
Love your analysis always. Would love to hear you again on Stubbs’ podcast. I’ve missed your analysis with her. Do you have plans to return?
Spot on about the entire, to me, reason that Sinner did not prevail, not just in the tie break but for the entire match. You simply cannot serve in the 50% range on firsts and have a chance to win. Had he been playing a 24 year old Agassi with that serve stat, the match would be 3 sets.
Agreed. I thought if Sinners first serve was in, he was on the offensive during the point and he did wind up winning 70% of those points, but he was close to just getting half his first serves in and it was 50/50 that he'd win his second serve. A stressful senario. I wonder if coach Andrea's tennis acumen had the chance to talk to an obliging Cahill, what would they discus as how Sinner can get more first serves in or how he can win more second serves. Is it as simple as the old adage of "Hit 10,000 balls by Friday and you'll be good"?
Being Italian, I'm now curious about the name of that stone you're considering for your floors (if it does indeed have a name)
I crushed on Marat Safin, too. Hey, this was a particularly good piece!! Bravo, Andrea Copa. (BMac is currently nom de plume of Miami Bertha, fyi)
Allez! Allez! Allez! Andrea!
Your Finite Jest cup runneth over and we Drink it all up. When mere prose fails, I’ll leave it to fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell to lyrically express:
“Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh, I would still be on my feet” 👣
So happy you answered my question and what an answer you gave 👌🏽! Next question … when is your next book coming out 🥰?