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writer @ defector CHANGEOVER, my tennis book about Alcaraz & Sinner, can be preordered here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Changeover/Giri-Nathan/9781668076248 giri[at]defector[dot]com
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my baby loves this

I’ve been saying this for years! Thank you Jannik 🙏🏾

this series of interviews, conducted by @sabs.bsky.social and compiled here, is one of the best things we’ve published defector.com/meet-the-civ...

when baby starts to release a poop my confidence level that it’s going to remain inside the diaper ≈ my confidence level that a full-speed westbrook transition layup is going to go inside the hoop

read this book and immediately started watching the French Open after a lifetime of deep indifference to tennis; that’s both a recommendation and a warning

Just pre-ordered this while watching a tennis match (Fonseca v Cobolli), because my entire personality is now tennis I guess

pre-orders help authors! pre-orders from your local bookstore help everyone! pre-order things. it helps!

💫 CHANGEOVER got a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social !

my father in law said he’d read some of my book and said he found it way better than all my previous writing and it was so psychological and even reminded him of Proust (?!) and it turned out he read the dummy copy which is just my book jacket wrapped around a posthumous Mary Higgins Clark novel

I need your help…

Coco Gauff looks to continue to confound on the grass. via @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/forces-of-na...

by the end of the nba playoffs every commentator’s voice is hitting like an intrusive thought

after so much classic rock had just washed over me, that burnt CD of SMiLE in 8th grade was the first time I ever envied a having-a-white-dad-style musical education. unforgettable! a self-contained universe. what a mind… R.I.P

making some last minute adjustments to the book

I think more people texted me today than on the day I became a dad. not sure what that means about society but it’s great for TENNIS

Enjoying this all caps TENNIS MATCH? Get @girinathan.bsky.social's book on Sinner/Alcaraz imo: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Change...

Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 French Open men’s final, @girinathan.bsky.social’s publicist

One of our very best tennis writers—if you like the sport or simply enjoy good sentences, check him out!

my book, CHANGEOVER, will be out this year. 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 🎾 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Change...

it's cool that the best American tennis player of this generation has serve & forehand as *weaknesses* and is incredible at everything else. not a monolith!!!

With the pre-final ceremony still underway for the women's final, there's a bit of time to look ahead to the #RolandGarros men's final. And since it's going to be Jannik Sinner vs Carlos Alcaraz, I had to discuss it with author @girinathan.bsky.social. www.benrothenberg.com/p/giri-natha...

Thank you!! It comes out August 19, preorder link below

Jannik Sinner by @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/back-in-black/

Pacers close games with an accursed, haunting inevitability. Edgar Allen Poe-ass team

parenting book 2025: If your child is experiencing Big Feelings in the middle of a crosswalk, gently redirect traffic around them as Feelings are expressed in their totality parenting book 1995: So you’re going to want at least 90 proof brandy to rub on the gums,

Richard Gasquet by @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/mozarts-outro/

imagine how good a Thibs offense would look if they were allowed to pass

New at Bounces: An interview with Victor Martinez, aka "Victor Barber," the very nice man from Murcia who became wildly polarizing among tennis fans…for how he cuts Carlos Alcaraz's hair. Read here (free, but subscribe to get Bounces in your inbox!) www.benrothenberg.com/p/victor-bar...

starting to understand why Nike refused to give me any comment or interview on their styling of Carlos & Jannik lol

Can't think of a single time the MGM lion advanced the plot of the movie in any way. Just needless jump scare

Thrilled to have an article in The Guardian today, the publication I used to read to learn about tennis and still read to keep up with it. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

Over 20 years I saw Rafael Nadal so many different ways - an intruder, a sage, a way through my own pain Farewell Rafa defector.com/rafael-nadal...

that line about loving humanity in general but hating your fellow man in particular… I have the opposite with Knicks fandom. if I know you I cherish you but if I see a viral clip I want them sent to the KITH gulags