The Tennis Tragic #020 / Hiding Under The Bed / Rafa calls in from quarantine, Matte catches Linsanity, David and his father discuss formative sports memories, and more dreams of great players retiring from matches.

The Tennis Tragic #019 / Fig Ignorant / Roger goes under the knife, Vasek spoons out a little maple, and Matte and David stick a fork in the GOAT convo.  Is it fully cooked?  Hard to say!

The Tennis Tragic #018 / Dreams-Come-True-Girl / Do dreams really come true?  Do you just need to believe in your dreams?  Is that enough?

Matte and David discuss childhood dreams, premonitory dreams, endings, Margaret Court, Godwin's Law, John McEnroe, Martina Navratalova, Evonne Goolagong, Colin Kaepernick, Ash Barty, Tennys Sandgren, commerce, Garbine Muguruza, and Sofia Kenin's first major title.  As it was foretold.

The Tennis Tragic #017 / AO 2020 Day Six / The gang discuss the finer points of Kyrgios's performance (and behavior) in his match against some Russian guy?  Hatch-a-something?  Khachanov!  That guy is pretty good.  Also:  Goffin-Rublev, Bethany Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin on the doubles court, and a look forward to a desperately tedious Raonic-Cilic match.

The Tennis Tragic #016 / AO 2020 Day Five - The Demons Are Always There / Federer summons forth another unholy victory against a righteous John Millman.  Coco defeats elder stateswoman Osaka.  Serena bows out to Wang Qiang.  Tennys Sandgren's guns were out, as the suns... were out?

The Tennis Tragic #015 / AO 2020 Day Three - More Sweetie / We doubled down on a couple of long and delightful five-setters and explored some on-site commercial activations.

The Tennis Tragic #014 / AO 2020 Day Two - Tragic Tuesday / 88 Completed Matches!  88 pro athletes, fallen in fierce competition!  We gathered the morning after this epic day at Melbourne Park to discuss the highlights, the smashed racquets, the heartbreak, the occasionally sublime play, Court 3 acoustics, and RESPECT.

The Tennis Tragic #013 - AO 2020 Day One - Are we doing daily episodes?  We're doing daily episodes!  Or mini-episodes?  Whatever the case, Matte, Alex, and David rolled down to the AO grounds under the threat of rain and got stuck in the squall.  The tennis was unexceptional and mostly water-logged, and we came away musing mostly about the season's new fashion lines.

The Tennis Tragic #012 / AO 2020 Draw Show / Matte and Alex just arrived in Melbourne and we immediately started talking about brackets, the space-time continuum, possible future screaming matches, and whether or not anything is truly inevitable.

The Tennis Tragic #011 / January 14 2020 / For the first time since meeting at the 2019 Australian Open, The Tragic Three convened in Brisbane, Australia to watch real, live tennis - checking out the inaugural ATP Cup's Group Stage with a little WTA Brisbane International bonus action on the side!

We witnessed grown men smashing racquets, speculated about the true lineage of some rising stars, gently argued about the use of instant replay and towel racks, and discussed the pros and cons of nation-based competitions.  Matte also set a world record at the serve machine!

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