The State of Play with Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Author of The Circuit and award-winning poet Rowan
Ricardo Phillips joins Finn to talk about why he is not watching
tennis right now.


Phillips unpicks the ethics of tennis' return to his hometown,
New York, and tells us why we should celebrate the sport's
socially conscious players when tennis so often pretends
disengagement from the world. He also reveals how he created his
epic, a lyrical record of the bewildering and inspiring 2017
season, and describes what the events of that year - in tennis
and the world - mean for him now. 


The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey won the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for
Literary Sports Writing and is available from Picador for $17.00.


You can find Louisa Thomas' essay for The New
Yorker here.


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