Dmitriy EfremovDmitriy Efremov
China Open: When the Defending Champion Withdraws, the Real Bill Arrives on the RankingThere is a moment in tennis that few people notice: when a player withdraws...
An Se-young Breaks the Title Record: Reading the Denmark Open Final Through Load, Not EmotionOdense, the evening of 18 October. Game three, An Se-young trails 9-12. She...
Manchester United and Antonio Conte: The Tactical Gamble After Seven MatchesSeven matches, two wins. That figure appears on Manchester United's summary...
Vietnam U23 need one point to advance: The finishing problem and a historic opportunity against UzbekistanAt Nagoya, against an Uzbekistan U23 side that has already secured its place,...
Millwall 2-2 West Ham: A flattering draw or a warning sign?At minute 74 at The Den, Lyndon Dykes placed the ball on the touchline and...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Injury Equation: When Numbers SpeakAt the Lach Tray pool, on a Tuesday afternoon, I recorded an unusual number:...
Turkey complete a classic comeback against Italy to defend the European women's volleyball crown in IstanbulWhen the final ball of the fifth set hit the floor, Istanbul erupted. From tw...
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place in Glasgow: What the Results Board Leaves OutNaomi Korir's Fifth Place in Glasgow: What the Results Board Leaves Out The...
Jess Mruzik's Spike to the Face of a 14-Year-Old Libero: Vietnamese Volleyball Is Ignoring Its Biggest Structural ProblemThat spike was technically unremarkable. An American opposite attacker took h...
Bent Larsen on the Cover, Prague 2026 in the Gut: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 Through a Market LensBent Larsen is on the cover. There is not a single one of his games in the...
When Sports Data Wears the Wrong Label: An Audit Case from the Tennis DeskOn the second monitor of the tennis desk, the data file carried a tidy name:...
NBA Expansion: Las Vegas Ahead of Seattle, But the Billion-Dollar Race Is Still Full of TrapsIn a small podcast studio in Chicago, I sat alone that night, headphones on,...
Sindhu Loses to Chen Yufei in Asian Games 2026 Quarter-final: Third Game Collapses After a 122-Second RallyThe 122-second rally at the start of the third game is the thing I wrote down...
Vietnamese Badminton in the Regular Season: Fitness, Tactics and the Gap to FillThree in the morning in Shanghai, and I was still awake over a match that had...
When Ferrari Turns the Racetrack Into a Laboratory: Hinchcliffe's Counterintuitive ViewAt the Spanish Grand Prix at Madring, Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari stopped becaus...
Ilya Kharun, a 19.43-Second 50 Fly, and the Limits of a Hand-Held StopwatchIn the hand of Herbie Behm, head coach of the Arizona State swim program, the...
Sussex Senior 4*: The Battle at England's Domestic Table Tennis EventThis weekend, in Sussex, England, the Sussex Senior 4* table tennis tournamen...
The Narrow Door of Vietnam's Football Academies: The Names Nobody CountsOn the night of January 27, 2026, snow covered the pitch in Changzhou. I sat ...
Nine Analytical Dimensions, Zero Data Points: When a Table Tennis Report Returns a Null ResultTuesday night, fourth floor in Busan. I open a table tennis analysis file wit...
Asian Games 2026: PV Sindhu's Head-to-Head Matrix and the Limits of a First-Strike AttackHook I rewatched the 2026 Japan Open final twice, not to count smashes but to...
An Se-young Breaks the Title Record: Reading the Denmark Open Final Through Load, Not EmotionOdense, the evening of 18 October. Game three, An Se-young trails 9-12. She...
Manchester United and Antonio Conte: The Tactical Gamble After Seven MatchesSeven matches, two wins. That figure appears on Manchester United's summary...
Vietnam U23 need one point to advance: The finishing problem and a historic opportunity against UzbekistanAt Nagoya, against an Uzbekistan U23 side that has already secured its place,...
Millwall 2-2 West Ham: A flattering draw or a warning sign?At minute 74 at The Den, Lyndon Dykes placed the ball on the touchline and...
Vietnamese Swimming and the Injury Equation: When Numbers SpeakAt the Lach Tray pool, on a Tuesday afternoon, I recorded an unusual number:...
Turkey complete a classic comeback against Italy to defend the European women's volleyball crown in IstanbulWhen the final ball of the fifth set hit the floor, Istanbul erupted. From tw...
Naomi Korir's Fifth Place in Glasgow: What the Results Board Leaves OutNaomi Korir's Fifth Place in Glasgow: What the Results Board Leaves Out The...
Jess Mruzik's Spike to the Face of a 14-Year-Old Libero: Vietnamese Volleyball Is Ignoring Its Biggest Structural ProblemThat spike was technically unremarkable. An American opposite attacker took h...
Bent Larsen on the Cover, Prague 2026 in the Gut: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 Through a Market LensBent Larsen is on the cover. There is not a single one of his games in the...
When Sports Data Wears the Wrong Label: An Audit Case from the Tennis DeskOn the second monitor of the tennis desk, the data file carried a tidy name:...
NBA Expansion: Las Vegas Ahead of Seattle, But the Billion-Dollar Race Is Still Full of TrapsIn a small podcast studio in Chicago, I sat alone that night, headphones on,...
Sindhu Loses to Chen Yufei in Asian Games 2026 Quarter-final: Third Game Collapses After a 122-Second RallyThe 122-second rally at the start of the third game is the thing I wrote down...
Vietnamese Badminton in the Regular Season: Fitness, Tactics and the Gap to FillThree in the morning in Shanghai, and I was still awake over a match that had...
When Ferrari Turns the Racetrack Into a Laboratory: Hinchcliffe's Counterintuitive ViewAt the Spanish Grand Prix at Madring, Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari stopped becaus...
Ilya Kharun, a 19.43-Second 50 Fly, and the Limits of a Hand-Held StopwatchIn the hand of Herbie Behm, head coach of the Arizona State swim program, the...
Sussex Senior 4*: The Battle at England's Domestic Table Tennis EventThis weekend, in Sussex, England, the Sussex Senior 4* table tennis tournamen...
The Narrow Door of Vietnam's Football Academies: The Names Nobody CountsOn the night of January 27, 2026, snow covered the pitch in Changzhou. I sat ...
Nine Analytical Dimensions, Zero Data Points: When a Table Tennis Report Returns a Null ResultTuesday night, fourth floor in Busan. I open a table tennis analysis file wit...
Asian Games 2026: PV Sindhu's Head-to-Head Matrix and the Limits of a First-Strike AttackHook I rewatched the 2026 Japan Open final twice, not to count smashes but to...
