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Hey everyone,

• Here’s this week’s Served podcast.

• This week’s buy-my-friend’s-book appeal: The Plunge by Chris Ballard .

Onward …

Love your podcast. Thanks! I’d like your thoughts on this: Is anyone else tired of hearing Jannik [Sinner] described as a machine or robot, as if he doesn’t have a creative game that’s beautiful and spectacular to watch, like Carlos [Alcaraz]’s game? Personality doesn’t translate directly into play, IMO. Jannik is also passionate about tennis, and Carlos plays a tactical game too. Labels are simplistic for such all-rounded excellence.

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• We—fans, media and marketing types—like these cut-and-paste labels. It’s all so much easier to digest (and sell) when everyone is reduced to a caricature and one-phrase logline. Sinner has been reduced to the clinical, efficient, bloodless tennis engineer. Why? Because it seems his game isn’t hit-or-miss, but rather steady, and his on-court emoting is minimal.…