This week on Tennis With An Accent, Saqib Ali is joined by Louisa Thomas, a published author and contributing writer at The New Yorker magazine, where she has written about tennis for several years. She had written about tennis at Grantland since 2011 before the website closed down.

She and Saqib discuss WTA World No. 1 Naomi Osaka, whom she recently interviewed for Vogue Magazine,  and the other players she likes to write about. Ms. Thomas speaks about magazine-based tennis writing, as a reality which is separate from deadline-based instant analysis or on-site reportage. Thomas also talks about women’s tennis as a source of empowerment for women, and on the complexities of today’s younger tennis personalities and the need to not lump all players into the same group. 

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