Emptying the Charleston Notebook & Quotebook

Bringing y’all lots of quotes from top WTA players about a whole range of tennis topics.

As promised, I’m emptying the notebook here for Bounces subscribers from my coverage of WTA 500 Charleston last week, bringing y’all lots of quotes from top WTA players about a whole range of topics.

Below the paywall jump here you can read 4,000+ words of quotes and notes, including:

• Mixed feelings from Danielle Collins and Jelena Ostapenko on electronic line calling taking over;

• How Madison Keys processed her stunning blowout loss to Aryna Sabalenka in Indian Wells;

• Zheng Qinwen’s emerging personality and jokes;

• Jessica Pegula on how team sport athletes are “spoiled”;

• Amanda Anisimova’s regrets about her dust-up with Mirra Andreeva in Miami and the Instagram middle finger she posted.

• Maria Sakkari, mid-slide;

• Belinda Bencic and exhaustion over the constant baby talk around returning mothers;

• Ajla Tomljanovic on why Netflix’s Break Point was held back by other players’ unwillingness to open up.

• The mixed receipts on Charleston’s title sponsor, Credit One.

If you’ve read this far already, I think taking the jump and subscribing—to this and all other Bounces content past, present and future—will all prove quite worth it, and I will hugely appreciate your support of the reporting work I’m doing about the world of professional tennis. So if you can, thanks for subscribing! -Ben