Good fun read about a fun player to follow. Just one thing, I think in the following paragraph, I assume you mean on the men's side not the women's side (I assumed you were trying to compare the different potential off-court earnings for players on the different tours but I could have mis-interpreted what I was reading).
'Duguid and I spoke during the first week of Wimbledon, when Lys had just broken the 200,000 mark in Instagram followers. Fame and fortune in women’s tennis have never been as strictly tied to rankings and results as they are on the women’s side, and Lys was one of the clearest current examples of that.'
She seems hilarious and kind and is obviously beautiful and charismatic — a tennis marketer’s dream. I wish she were having a better year; I got your newsletter in the middle of the beatdown she was receiving today from Paula Badosa, which was hard to watch. I hope so much she can better compete at some point with the firepower of the hardest-hitting WTA players; maybe more strength training? Either way, just a clearly awesome person and I’ll be rooting for better tournaments for her soon!
(Editing this after Lys made an amazing comeback against Badosa post-first set. Go Eva!)
She has great positivity for women, especially women on the tour and that reflects also in how she also posts about the social media hate and disgusting comments that she has to deal with - mainly due to sports betting (men). That alone earns great respect.
I am not sure about the pronunciation. In Germany it is not Eeva (like Iva Jovic). Petko doesn’t call Eva like that when talking about her in German. I guess she anglices her name.
Nice piece. Why is it that she has almost no accent speaking English and has basically an American accent? Did she spend a lot of time in the U.S. growing up, or attend English-language schools?
Good fun read about a fun player to follow. Just one thing, I think in the following paragraph, I assume you mean on the men's side not the women's side (I assumed you were trying to compare the different potential off-court earnings for players on the different tours but I could have mis-interpreted what I was reading).
'Duguid and I spoke during the first week of Wimbledon, when Lys had just broken the 200,000 mark in Instagram followers. Fame and fortune in women’s tennis have never been as strictly tied to rankings and results as they are on the women’s side, and Lys was one of the clearest current examples of that.'
Is Eva Lys the only woman in WTA history to have exactly three letter in her full first name and last name?
It took some Googling, but I came up with Zhu Lin. (And Li Na has both of them beat.)
She seems hilarious and kind and is obviously beautiful and charismatic — a tennis marketer’s dream. I wish she were having a better year; I got your newsletter in the middle of the beatdown she was receiving today from Paula Badosa, which was hard to watch. I hope so much she can better compete at some point with the firepower of the hardest-hitting WTA players; maybe more strength training? Either way, just a clearly awesome person and I’ll be rooting for better tournaments for her soon!
(Editing this after Lys made an amazing comeback against Badosa post-first set. Go Eva!)
Ha yes this was a first test of a mid-match BouncesBounce™️, I may have uncorked something potent here!!
Great story! Thanks, Ben!
She has great positivity for women, especially women on the tour and that reflects also in how she also posts about the social media hate and disgusting comments that she has to deal with - mainly due to sports betting (men). That alone earns great respect.
I am not sure about the pronunciation. In Germany it is not Eeva (like Iva Jovic). Petko doesn’t call Eva like that when talking about her in German. I guess she anglices her name.
I wonder if it’s less anglicized and more Slavic since she’s Ukrainian?
That could be the case. Unfortunately I have no knowledge about the Ukrainian language and pronunciation.
Nice piece. Why is it that she has almost no accent speaking English and has basically an American accent? Did she spend a lot of time in the U.S. growing up, or attend English-language schools?