Tennis & Olympic Sports

Diana Morales

Covers tennis and Olympic sport, with a soft spot for the training systems behind individual excellence.

Articles by Diana Morales

Olympics • athletics • distance running

3 weeks ago

A stiff plate inside a thick, highly resilient midsole improves running economy enough to reframe footwear as equipment....

Olympics • host cities • bidding

3 weeks ago

Olympic budgets overrun for structural reasons: an immovable deadline, purpose-built venues and open-ended security. Once voters...

Tennis • atp tour • wta tour

4 weeks ago

Tennis has no single body that owns its calendar, and ranking defence, mandatory events and appearance money all reward playing...

Tennis • atp rankings • wta rankings

4 weeks ago

Tennis rankings run on a rolling fifty-two week window with no reset, which makes holding a position a defence exercise and makes...

Tennis • court surfaces • clay court

1 month ago

Court speed is a consequence, not a property. How each surface is built determines the bounce, the friction underfoot and the...

Olympics • ioc • skateboarding

1 month ago

The IOC process behind adding an Olympic sport is more political than technical, and the same host-city rule that let breaking...

Olympics • altitude training • distance running

1 month ago

Why elite distance runners cluster in Iten and Addis Ababa, and what published hemoglobin and VO2max studies behind altitude...

Olympics • norway • winter olympics

2 months ago

Norway topped the 2026 Winter Olympics medal table with a nation of 5.5 million, built on a policy that bans ranking children's...

Tennis • atp tour • sinner

3 months ago

Sinner and Alcaraz did not just inherit the Big Three's trophies. Their rivalry runs on different bodies, court positions and a...

Tennis • tennis equipment • polyester strings

3 months ago

Gustavo Kuerten's 1997 French Open run introduced Luxilon polyester strings to the sport. Physics research explains why the...

Tennis • atp tour • clay court tennis

3 months ago

Thomas Muster and Sergi Bruguera once won almost exclusively on clay. The modern ATP calendar and surface data explain why that...