Welcome back everyone, and happy 2026. We hope the year is not merely new but improved. We’ll start Australian Open preview coverage next week. (Happily, Tennis Channel will be on site.) But this week, with a nod to Nick K.—columnist and former Oregon gubernatorial candidate Kristof; not self-saboteur and episodically committed tennis player Kyrgios—let’s start with a game of predictions for the new year.
We can revisit in 11-plus months and see how we all performed. My answers are in bold.
