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Roger Kaplan

Roger Kaplan

Roger Kaplan, a Washington-based writer, covers the Middle East and Africa (and tennis) for The American Spectator.
by | Oct 7, 2020

Anything can happen in tennis, but the two-set trouncing of Simona Halep by Iga Swiatek was a shocker. The teen…

by | Sep 29, 2020

It was Yom Kippur and Tennys Sandgren, like Diego Schwartzman (and Sandy Koufax) a Bible man but unlike them not…

by | Sep 28, 2020

There was not much to say about the match between Simona Halep and Sara Sorribes Tormo other than that the…

by | Sep 17, 2020

At the French Open one time not too long ago, I spied an usher whom I remembered from a previous…

by | Sep 14, 2020

He began by choking and ended with a cramp; in the great scheme of things, or at least a single…

by | Sep 11, 2020

Victoria Azarenka won the first point in her U.S. Open semifinal, but then she doubled, lost the next three points,…

by | Sep 10, 2020

After Pablo Carreño Busta, the man of Asturias, outlasted the dynamic young Canadian Denis Shapovalov the other night — actually it…

by | Sep 9, 2020

They break each other, then hold, the score is 3-2 for the Canadian, who is 21 and looks like he…

by | Sep 7, 2020

If a pitcher steps off the mound after giving up a two-run homer that blows his lead and throws a…

by | Sep 6, 2020

Denis Shapovalov, down two sets to one, came back from a 2-5 deficit in the fourth set to beat Taylor…

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