Black on Black on Black: tennis edition

We got ourselves three Black tennis champs in Australia this month¹:

• Madison Keys² in Adelaide, beating Jessica Pegula 6–3, 4–6, 6–1
• Felix Auger-Aliassime in Adelaide, beating Sebastian Korda 6–3, 3–6, 6–1
• Gaël Monfils in Auckland, beating Zizou Bergs 6–3, 6–4

For Monfils, it’s a special win as the title makes him the oldest winner of an ATP Tour singles title by 2 months. The previous record holder? Roger Federer, when he won in Basel in 2019. It’s been a while since he beat Federer in something.

But to all the winners, a big congrats and I’m excited to see what they can do in Melbourne tomorrow.

1. Thanks to Black Spin Global and @thatsoleelee.bsky.social for the reminders ↩︎
2. For transparency, Madison Keys is biracial (white and African American) has stated she doesn’t identify as either but her Black heritage can’t be denied so she’s here ↩︎