Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is endorsing President Biden for re-election, and he explained why he’s behind the president he supported in 2020. 

“It’s clear that President Biden is really interested in implementing gun safety measurements, commonsense gun violence prevention measures,” Kerr told MSNBC. 

“I’ve been doing a lot of work the last 10 years with a lot of different gun safety [and] prevention people like Brady [United], Giffords, Sandy Hook Promise, March For Our Lives. I’ve learned so much, and I know that we can prevent lives [from being lost to gun violence]. 

“President Biden is adamant that he’s going to push for commonsense laws that can do that. I know that [former] President Trump will not do that. So, it’s really a simple choice for me.”

Kerr was asked if he was voting for Biden or didn’t want to vote for former President Trump in this year’s election. 

“I’m voting for Joe Biden, but I think the biggest thing for me, everybody needs to vote their conscious,” he said. “I’m voting on a few issues, but this is the main one. I lost my father to gun violence when I was 18 years old, so I know how much pain people go through every single day in this country. 

“I know gun violence is the No. 1 killer of children in America. And I know that there’s so much that we can do about this. I think most people out there agree with me, whether you’re Republican or Democrat. 

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“Eighty percent of people in this country want universal background checks — doesn’t matter your political affiliation. We can do this, but we kinda have to steer the cruise ship there. It’s going to take some time, but we need to implement laws that the vast majority of our country want, and President Biden is willing to do the work to try to get those changes.”

To further his point, Kerr brought up how he’s a recent grandfather, “and I’m thinking a lot about when she goes off to kindergarten. And she’s going to have to go through mass-shooting drills.

President Biden speaks during a campaign event at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center in Philadelphia April 18, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“The trauma that our kids all across America go through just from those drills and the possibility of facing that kind of situation is so traumatizing and just a terrible thought that our children are all feeling this way. We know commonsense laws save lives. They absolutely do,” he added. 

Kerr publicly backed Biden in 2020 when Biden was running against Trump, who was seeking re-election. 

Kerr has been in Biden’s corner since Biden was elected, too. Kerr was a surprise guest at an APEC event in November 2023, where he introduced Biden. Kerr also joined Vice President Kamala Harris last week to speak to students about gun violence. 

Kerr hopes Biden’s re-election will lead to those “commonsense laws” he believes Americans, no matter their political affiliation, will benefit from. 

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, right, said it was a “simple choice” to back Joe Biden for president.  (Getty Images)

“We can protect the Second Amendment, but we can also protect our citizens with some really simple laws,” Kerr said. “But we just have to get everybody on board. It’s such a political hot button, but it’s really not a common thought in our country that this is a controversial issue. It’s not. As I said, 80% of people want universal background checks. We should have that. That alone would save hundreds, if not thousands, of lives every year in America.”

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Three months in, the amazement has yet to dissipate.

Every day, the Dodgers watch Mookie Betts take the field hours before first pitch, field dozens of ground balls in pregame infield drills, and endure the toil of perfecting the shortstop position.

Every day, since the former Gold Glove right fielder made the unprecedented switch two weeks before the start of this season, the team marvels at the progress Betts has been able to so quickly make.

“There’s no perfect player,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said recently. “But if there is as close to a perfect player, it’s Mookie Betts. It really is.”

Indeed, in what was a virtually unprecedented defensive gamble this year, Betts’ move to shortstop hasn’t blown up in the Dodgers’ face.

As the season nears the halfway mark, Betts has led the Dodgers to a 41-26 record entering Tuesday’s game, providing a spark with his bat (he is hitting .309 with 10 home runs) and his glove (starting at shortstop in 55 of 67 games) to help the team surge to a 7½-game lead in the National League West.

Betts is far from a perfect shortstop. Playing the position regularly for the first time as a professional — and the first time at all since his days as a high school player growing up in Tennessee — there have been learning curves and growing pains, including a team-high nine errors and poor .957 fielding percentage (third-worst among 24 qualified MLB shortstops this season).

Such struggles, however, were inevitable for Betts this season. After replacing defensively scuffling teammate Gavin Lux at shortstop this spring, failure was the only way for Betts to learn a new, intricate, demanding position.

“I take a lot of pride in it, how I’ve come a long way,” Betts said this weekend, reflecting on the process while from a visiting locker at Yankee Stadium last weekend. “Starting from as low as I was, you go up pretty quick.”

What comes next, however, is much more unclear.

Between now and October — if not, more urgently, the July 30 trade deadline — the Dodgers will have to make several determinations regarding both Betts and their shortstop position:

• Whether Betts can truly hone the role by the end of the year — and be trusted to play shortstop regularly in the playoffs.
• Whether the process of getting there can be sustained without Betts overexerting himself physically, given the extensive pregame routine he has relied on for continued improvement.
• And, whether keeping Betts at shortstop — or, potentially sliding him over to second base — makes the most sense in the long haul for this year’s Dodgers team.

Right now, “everything is on the table,” said one person with knowledge of the situation who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.

Which is why, for as astonishing as Betts’ acclimation to shortstop has been, the process still feels stuck in an almost experimental phase — looming as one of the most important variables for a club with lofty World Series ambitions.

“I was talking to Lux,” Betts said after a recent game, “and I was like, ‘This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.’ … Not looking for any sympathy. But, you know, it’s tough. So I gotta get it done.”

During his first four years in the major leagues, Honus Wagner — or, as he is described on his Baseball Hall of Fame plaque, the “greatest shortstop of all time” — didn’t actually play a single game at the position.

Instead, after making 232 appearances in the outfield from 1897 to 1900, the Pittsburgh Pirates legend only started playing shortstop in 1901, and didn’t move there permanently until 1904.

Over the following 120 years, no player is believed to have recorded more outfield appearances before switching to shortstop on a full-time basis. Few ever dared such an ambitious defensive change.

That is, until this season came around.

Until Betts, the six-time Gold Glover who played a whopping 1,130 career games in the outfield before ever appearing at shortstop (five times more than Wagner did before making his switch), accepted the challenge with the Dodgers this spring, making a major career change at age 31.

“I’m doing something that is uncharted territory,” Betts said. “I can’t go ask someone. I can’t go talk to anybody. Nobody can lead me through this, because nobody has done this. So, it’s really like [being] a pioneer, trying to figure this whole thing out.”

Betts did have some familiarity with shortstop from his high school days. He was already preparing for a full-time switch to the infield this season, as well, set to become an everyday second baseman after playing there regularly in 2023.

Going straight to shortstop, though, was a monumentally taller task — like asking a teenager to take a driver’s test before they’d hardly even begun the learning permit phase.

Shortstop requires more range, more split-second instincts and a fundamental feel for making myriad types of throws across the diamond. There is less time to think, react or set your feet. And only through extensive practice — and obligatory failure — can the correct habits be developed.

“For me, it’s something I know I can do,” Betts said. “But I know that it’s gonna take time. There’s no way to go play shortstop — elite shortstop — in a month, with zero practice.”

Three months in, it remains a quixotic quest.

Dodgers officials, however, have been profuse in their praise of Betts since the start of the season.

“I don’t think it’s being talked about enough just how selfless Mookie is,” president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said. “Most superstar players wouldn’t put themselves in the position of being as vulnerable as he is. And the way he has attacked it, the improvement we have seen day over day, week over week, it’s been astonishing.”

Teammates have lauded the tireless effort that has gone into his transition — most notably the extensive routine of infield drills Betts will take under the guidance of longtime third base coach Dino Ebel and experienced shortstop teammate Miguel Rojas before almost every game.

“Everything he does, he’s trying to be the best at it,” first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “So, because he hasn’t done this before, he’s overloading the work. Trying to do everything he can to put himself, and us, in the best situation.”

Despite all that, publicly available defensive metrics paint a much bleaker picture of Betts’ shortstop performance.

His nine errors so far are fourth-most at the position. His .957 fielding percentage is better than only Cincinnati’s Elly De La Cruz and Pittsburgh’s Oneil Cruz. He does rank 10th among qualified shortstops in “defensive runs saved,” and has helped turn 26 double plays, 12th-most among the group.

But, according to Baseball Savant’s all-encompassing “outs above average” metric, Betts has been the worst overall shortstop in the majors.

And on multiple occasions in recent weeks, he has aired frustrations with himself about miscues in the field.

“I gotta clean up a lot of things,” Betts said after committing two errors in Pittsburgh last week. “There’s no excuses. But the fact is, this is all new to me, man. This is all new. And it’s going to take more than two months to get.”

The good news for the Dodgers is that Betts has looked increasingly smoother with his shortstop play. He is better at going to his right and fielding grounders on his backhand. After “cutting” his throws too much early in the year, as Freeman described it, with the ball tailing too low and to the left, Betts has gotten more consistent and accurate with his tosses of late.

“It’s Mookie Betts,” Freeman said. “Everyone knows he will master it.”

The question, however, is how long such mastery will take to achieve — and how well Betts will hold up physically in the meantime.

“You can plateau pretty quick,” Betts said of his progression of learning shortstop defensively. “So I don’t know where I’m at. I just know I’m trying to get better each day, and see what happens.”

Roberts called it a “lazy” narrative. But that doesn’t mean it contains no truth.

After winning NL player of the month in April, and emerging as an early most valuable player front-runner by mid-May, Betts’ offensive production has started to slide in recent weeks. Since May 16, he is batting just .226, with a pedestrian .381 slugging percentage over his last 21 games.

“It’s not that good,” Betts said of his recent production. “But I’m grinding. I’m working. You know me. I’m always working to get better. It’s just not happening.”

While any number of factors could be causing such struggles, one point of speculation has centered on Betts’ defensive workload — and whether all of his efforts to learn shortstop are hampering him in any way at the plate.

Both Betts and Dodgers personnel scoffed at that theory last week.

Betts said that, thanks to changes in his diet and daily routine (even as simple as morning walks with his family, to keep his body moving), this year is actually “the best I’ve felt since I was probably 21 or 22 years old.”

Ebel, who directly oversees the Dodgers’ infield defense, said the club’s training staff has offered similar evaluations, especially as Betts has started streamlining his daily regime of infield drills in recent weeks (where Betts once took five reps of each specific ground ball type, for example, he now takes only three).

“It’s a long season,” Ebel said. “But we’re watching him daily, and he says ‘I’ve never felt better.’”

Nonetheless, until Betts maintains dominance at the plate and in the field, there will be calls from some corners of the fanbase for the team to make a defensive lineup change.

The simplest solution could come internally. Rojas, who was the Dodgers’ primary shortstop last season, is not only among the most sure-handed players in the sport at the position, but is also having a resurgent season at the plate, batting .283 with 11 extra-base hits.

Right now, Rojas is playing mainly at second and third base — clearing the way for Betts to get as many reps as possible at shortstop, where the Dodgers hope he can continue his steady defensive improvements.

Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts leaps over the Rockies’ Hunter Goodman after throwing to first base during a game at Dodger Stadium on June 2.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Rojas is also battling some leg soreness that has prevented him from playing on an everyday basis the past two weeks.

But, come the stretch run of the season, the Dodgers could always opt to reinsert Rojas as their primary shortstop and slide Betts over to second base (a return to right field, people around the organization believe, is unlikely at this stage of Betts’ season).

The trade deadline will offer other potential opportunities, too.

It’s worth remembering, the Dodgers have had past interest in Milwaukee shortstop Willy Adames (though he seems destined to stay with a surprise Brewers team currently leading the NL Central).

They could also be a fit for someone like Toronto star Bo Bichette, but only in the unlikely event that the Blue Jays opt for a midseason fire sale.

The rest of the trade market looks light on top shortstop targets, though smaller names, such as Paul DeJong of the Chicago White Sox, should be available.

All of this is to say: There will be more traditional shortstops than Betts, both inside the organization and not, for the Dodgers to consider before they reach October.

And if the team ultimately does go in a different direction, Betts said last weekend that he would understand.

“I don’t care,” he said. “I just want to win. If I’m not serviceable enough and they need to move off [playing me at shortstop], I ain’t got no pride when it comes to this. I just want to win. I genuinely don’t care about anything else.”

For now, though, the Dodgers don’t appear to be rushing down that path.

They remain mesmerized by all he has accomplished as a shortstop thus far. They’ve seen enough to not yet give up on the possibility of him cementing himself there for the rest of the season.

“No one wants to be uncomfortable and put in a position to fail, let alone a superstar,” Roberts said. “He could’ve stayed in right field and been a Hall of Famer. Or gone to second base and rode his ticket to the Hall of Fame. But now, he’s putting himself out there to play short.”

And he’s giving the club much to consider in the process.

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories from the past week on-court.

This week, the French Open in Paris drew to a close, with the second Grand Slam of the season playing out at Roland Garros. Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz won the singles titles, in a fortnight of five-setters, Hawk-Eye drama, raucous crowds and much, much more.

For a special edition of the Tennis Briefing, the writers at The Athletic look back on the tournament, and ahead to the coming of grass-court season.

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How many kinds of five-set thriller are there?

The 2024 French Open was a tournament for the five-set advocates and the sceptics.

There was high drama in Carlos Alcaraz’s semi-final win over Jannik Sinner and his Sunday defeat of Alexander Zverev in the final, both of which went to five sets, and both of which were electric, jittery, at times uncomfortable matches, as that drama appeared to take over. Novak Djokovic’s gruelling, and ultimately hugely damaging, win over Francisco Cerundolo in the fourth round was less than sparkling on the quality index; ditto Zverev edging past Tallon Griekspoor in the third round.

The crucial and final moments were made even more dramatic by the spells when those matches were simmering, and the five-set format retains a uniqueness of tension and endurance that a three-set match arguably can’t. Sceptics would say that some of those matches were long on time and low on quality. Both things are true; it’s possible for there to be bad, indifferent and brilliant five-set matches.

We saw all of the above at this French Open, including genuine thrillers like the late-night barnstormer on court 14 when Holger Rune edged past Flavio Cobolli in a final-set tiebreak, Djokovic and Lorenzo Musetti’s latest-ever finish at Roland Garros, and Dusan Lajovic and Roman Safiullin’s epic in the early rounds.

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Is Coco Gauff a multiple Grand Slam doubles champion in waiting?

It wasn’t the title Coco Gauff came to Paris for, but it was one she really wanted.

Gauff didn’t even think she was going to be playing doubles here, because her usual partner at Grand Slams, Jessica Pegula, is still recovering from an injury. Then another American, Taylor Townsend got injured. That left Katerina Siniakova — who, along with Gauff, is one of the world’s top doubles players — without a partner.

Townsend gave Gauff’s phone number to Siniakova. There was a text, and two days before the tournament began, the French Open had a very formidable new doubles team: an elite singles player and an elite doubles one, with plenty of experience in the biggest events: Siniakova was a seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion even before this tournament, Gauff a two-time Grand Slam doubles semi-finalist.

The results were both surprising and predictable. Gauff and Siniakova basically winged their way to the title, like two great jazz musicians playing a series of gigs together after little to no practice, ending with a 7-6(5), 6-3 win over Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani in the final.

Gauff and Siniakova had never played together before this year’s French Open (Mateo Villalba/Getty Images)

It wasn’t flawless.

Siniakova pegged Gauff in the back of the head in one match. Sometimes they didn’t know which direction the other one was heading in. Giggling apologies between points were not infrequent. Talent is talent though, and Gauff’s 125mph serves also helped plenty.

When it was over, Gauff said there was a larger lesson to cull from the experience. “I think it’s just one of those things that when you least expect it to happen, it happens,” she said.

“Same thing (with the) U.S. Open, when I won it (last September). I didn’t expect to win. I was having a really bad year. Then here, I didn’t even expect to play (doubles).”

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Can the wisdom of crowds prevail?

It already feels like it was about 10 years ago, but the first week of this French Open was dominated by stories of bad crowd behaviour. Raucous fans were making life hard for some of the players, and David Goffin reported he had been spat at by a supporter when the atmosphere was particularly feverish during his first-round win over home favourite Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.

Tournament director Amelie Mauresmo announced a site-wide ban on drinking in the stands a couple of days later, in what straight away felt like a heavy-handed response.

In her tournament review on Sunday, Maursemo accepted organisers may have jumped the gun, while also rejecting the idea that the ban contributed to the numerous empty seats seen on the main courts at Roland Garros.

Raucous crowds have brought passion to the tournament. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP via Getty Images)

“Honestly, in my opinion, the alcohol, maybe it wasn’t necessary, and I don’t think it was the reason why the stadium at some point was empty,” she said.

The lesson here is that tennis needs to take a step back and not try to stamp out all behaviour it finds a little too much. Something like the Goffin incident clearly oversteps the mark, but having passionate, engaged fans is hardly a bad thing.

There are plenty of tennis players who would love to have this kind of raucousness more often, with many tour events grappling with empty seats and a lack of atmosphere that is, in a wider sense, a far bigger problem for the sport.

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What will it take for the French Open to accept Hawk-Eye?

Apparently, the people who run the French Open needed yet another reminder:

High-speed cameras and the computer technology that allows them to make line calls with the tiniest margin for error are better than the human eye — and better for humans.

Little has moved the needle so far, but costing a finalist a Grand Slam title may make the FFT (France’s tennis federation, which organizes the French Open) reconsider staying loyal to umpires coming down from their chair to inspect ball marks on the red clay to estimate whether the edge of a tiny ball nicked or missed a painted line, with millions of dollars riding on the decision.

Last year, Wimbledon’s obstinance may very well have cost home favourite Andy Murray a chance to win his match against Stefanos Tsitsipas. But that was in the second round.

On Sunday, in the fifth set of the men’s final, a similarly mistaken line call prevented Alexander Zverev from breaking Carlos Alcaraz’s serve and knotting the set at two games each. Everyone watching on television or with access to social media knew very quickly that Alcaraz double-faulted and that chair umpire Renaud Lichtenstein should not have overruled the original line judge’s call.

The crucial line call helped keep the momentum with Alcaraz in the final’s fifth set (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)

Once again, the wider world had access to the correct information, but the people who really needed it, and should have been protected by it, did not.

“There’s a difference whether you’re down 3-1 in the fifth set or you’re back to two-all — that’s a deciding difference,” said Zverev, after he had learned that the final call had been wrong. “It’s frustrating in the end, but it is what it is. Umpires make mistakes. They’re also human, and that’s OK. But of course, in a situation like that, you wish there wouldn’t be mistakes.”

Pascal Maria, the assistant referee for the French Open, said earlier in the tournament that officials are not considering moving to fully electronic line calling, which will be ubiquitous on the ATP Tour next year.

Officials used to argue that the Hawk-Eye system was not as effective on clay because of the raised lines. Supporters of the technology say that is no longer an issue, and regardless, the computer was always better than a human anyway for this task.

The ruling against Zverev fell within the error tolerance of 3mm (just under an eighth of an inch), so it may never have been called out by an electronic system — but there would have been no person being asked to track a minuscule distance at high speed under severe pressure. Tennis needs to save its officials, and itself, from the vitriol that comes with mistakes.

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Can Iga Swiatek emulate Rafael Nadal in yet another way?

Iga Swiatek has long idolised Rafael Nadal — and similarities between the two have become increasingly hard to ignore.

So here’s another one: it was after Nadal’s fourth Roland Garros title that he won his first Wimbledon, in 2008. So could this be the year, after Swiatek’s fourth French Open, that she too breaks her duck in south-west London?

When The Athletic put this to Swiatek on Saturday, she responded with typical modesty.

“I think the biggest progress I can make on grass right now is using my serve that is better, but also I don’t expect a lot at Wimbledon next month),” she said.

Iga Swiatek will return to Wimbledon as world No 1, but not necessarily a favourite. (Julian Finney / Getty Images)

“The balls are different. Overall, tennis is different on grass. I’ll just see and I’ll work hard to play better there.”

Swiatek also explained that she has been happy with her progress on grass, saying that she feels “like, every year, it’s easier for me to adapt to grass”.

Whether Swiatek can complete the fiendishly difficult French Open-Wimbledon double this time — as with every year she wins at Roland Garros — will be one of the key sub-plots as the surfaces switch for the early summer.

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Will the grass provide a soft landing for stars on the comeback trail?

It’s impossible to have witnessed this French Open and not feel very encouraged about the prospects for a few stars on the comeback trail from injury or, in Naomi Osaka’s case, maternity leave.

Canadians Denis Shapovalov and Bianca Andreescu both made the third round at Roland Garros on a surface neither of them particularly enjoys. Shapovalov has been working through an injured knee. Andreescu has spent eight months recovering from a stress fracture in her back.

Both are now moving on towards Wimbledon.

Shapovalov could not be more thrilled. Grass is his favorite surface, and if he can beat quality opponents on the clay, he’s someone that players and fans alike will want to circle on their draw sheets.

Andreescu married power and craft in her return to Roland Garros, and could be formidable on the grass (Robert Prange / Getty Images)

The same goes for Andreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open champion. She showed every bit of her competitive fire and nearly unmatched creativity in Paris, and though she’s hardly a grass court specialist, her athletic talent and experience on the surface should make her a very good watch at the All England Club.

And then there’s Osaka, the furthest thing from a clay lover, pushing Iga Swiatek, the reigning and ultimate champion, to within a point of elimination in the second round. Osaka has never been much for grass either, but if that is what she is capable of on a surface she doesn’t like, there’s no reason she can’t perform even better at Wimbledon, where the grass will give her all sorts of love that the clay does not.

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Shot of the week

This was CINEMA pic.twitter.com/s7NY23uR6c

— Served with Andy Roddick (@Served_Podcast) June 9, 2024

Passing shot de esquerda a uma mão. Carlos Alcaraz.pic.twitter.com/AqM0NRPE65

— B24 (@B24PT) June 9, 2024

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🏆 The winners of the week

🎾 ATP: 

🏆 Carlos Alcaraz def. Alexander Zverev 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 to win the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris. It is Alcaraz’s first French Open title.
🏆 Lloyd Harris def. Leandro Riedi 7-6(8), 7-5 to win the Lexus Surbiton Trophy (Challenger 125) in Surbiton, England. It is Harris’ first ATP title.

🎾 WTA:

🏆 Iga Swiatek def. Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 to win the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris. It is her fifth Grand Slam title and third French Open in a row.
🏆 Anca Todoni def. Panna Udvardy 6-4, 6-0 to win the Puglia Open (125) in Bari, Italy. It is Todoni’s first WTA title.
🏆 Katie Volynets def. Mayar Sherif 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 to win the Makarska Open (125) in Makarska, Croatia. It is Volynets’ first WTA title.

📈📉 On the rise / Down the line

📈 Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz both move up one place, to No 1 and No 2 respectively. It is Sinner’s first time at world No 1.
📈 Coco Gauff ascends one spot from No 3 to No 2. It is her highest career ranking to date.
📈 Jasmine Paolini moves up eight positions from No 15 to No 7. It is her highest career ranking to date.

📉 Novak Djokovic falls two places from No 1 to No 3. It is his lowest ranking since the summer of 2022.
📉 Aryna Sabalenka drops one position from No 2 to No 3 after Gauff surpassed her at the French Open.
📉 Andy Murray tumbles 25 spots from No 71 to No 96.

📅 Coming up

🎾 ATP: 

📍Stuttgart, Germany, Boss Open (250) featuring Andy Murray, Alexander Zverev, Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton.
📍Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, Libema Open (250) featuring Alex de Minaur, Sebastian Korda, Arthur Fils and Tommy Paul.

📺 UK: Sky Sports; U.S.: Tennis Channel 💻 Tennis TV

🎾 WTA:

📍Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, Libema Open (250) featuring Jessica Pegula, Naomi Osaka, Clara Tauson and Bianca Andreescu.
📍Nottingham, England, Rothesay Open (250) featuring Ons Jabeur, Emma Raducanu, Marta Kostyuk and Katie Boulter.

📺 UK: Sky Sports; U.S.: Tennis Channel

Tell us what you noticed this week in the comments below as the men’s and women’s tours continue.

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