Daily Bagel: Rookie Dominic Thiem, why tennis players hate sunscreen

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet. • Here's Christopher Clarey on 20-year-old Dominic

Courtney Nguyen | Aug 29, 2014

Daily Bagel: Rookie Dominic Thiem, why tennis players hate sunscreen /

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• Here's Christopher Clarey on 20-year-old Dominic Thiem, who is into the fourth round in his U.S. Open debut.

• Takeaways from the new young adult romance series from Monica Seles.

• Juliet Macur of The New York Times on why best-of-five-set matches should be banned.

• Very good discussion by Howard Bryant of ESPN on how to discuss -- or not discuss -- weight and fitness issues in women's tennis.

• From FiveThirtyEight's Carl Bialik: The state of American tennis, and why the women are winning.

• This is worrisome on so many levels: Why tennis players hate wearing sunscreen (and therefore, they don't).

• It's come to this: What Canada can teach the U.S. about tennis.

• Non-tennis: A great read on Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Published Aug 29, 2014

COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.