LONDON—It’s July 4th here, rather than the grander-sounding 4th of July, or Independence Day, as it’s known in my country. On this day in 1776, the United States broke away from England; 241 years later, everyone seems ready to break away from everyone else—the red states from the blue states in the U.S., the Brits from the rest of Europe over here.

What does geo-politics have to do with tennis, you ask? I mention it because while flipping through the Daily Mail’s copious tennis coverage on Tuesday morning, I came across this memorable phrase, which was said by a losing player to his opponent on the hallowed lawns of Wimbledon on Monday:

DUDE, DON’T TALK TO ME

Can there be a more fitting slogan for our era? Yes, the words were uttered by Denis Shapovalov, an 18-year-old in a backwards baseball cap, but don’t they sum up exactly what you’re thinking most of the time? Though I guess the fact that they came from a Canadian—i.e., one of the civilized ones—should make us a little alarmed.

Shapovalov hasn’t been the only person saying and doing things at Wimbledon, of course. Here’s a look at how the London papers saw Day 1.

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The Telegraph and The Sun engage in dueling Andy Murray headlines. Each plays off his recently injured hip, but only one of them makes any sense to me.

Here’s how The Telegraph puts it:

HIP HIP MURRAY!

Champion shrugs off injury to open Championships in style

Now The Sun:

MANY HIPPY RETURNS

Crocked Muzza on march again

I’m going to guess that “crocked” doesn’t mean what I think it means.

Keeping Tabs: "Heck yeah" Djokovic can win, says philosophical Agassi

Keeping Tabs: "Heck yeah" Djokovic can win, says philosophical Agassi

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Either way, the papers are pleased with Murray’s performance, and optimistic about his future. Again, The Sun and The Telegraph offer an interesting contrast in headlines.

The Sun:

MUM ON ANDY

Preggers Kim sees Muzza sail through

The Telegraph:

MURRAY MOVES FROM GERIATRIC TO FELINE AS BUBLIK IS CAST ASIDE

None of this prepares us what’s coming when we turn the page, though. There, a cold wind, courtesy of Greg Rusedski, slaps us square in the face:

I AM NOT CONVINCED ANDY IS FIT TO DEFEND HIS TITLE

Who invited this guy? Worse still, Rusedski probably has a point:

“Only when the champion has to exert himself fully,” Rusedski writes, “will we see the extent of his injury problems”

Tennis Channel's Daily Serve recaps Day 1 from Wimbledon:

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On Tuesday, we’ll get our first look at last year’s runner-up, Milos Raonic. But the big man has had already had some interesting things to say—and draw—about his fellow players. The Times asked Raonic, a budding art collector and reseller, to sketch a few of his rivals. Here’s his view of Rafael Nadal:

“‘Let’s start with Rafa, just because it’s the easiest,’ Raonic says as he picks up a pen. The Nike Headband appears early, but he’s not quite sure how to draw the Spaniard’s eyes. ‘I don’t know what Rafa’s eyes look like. I never looked the guy in the eyes and said, ‘Rafa, you have great eyes.’”

As far as revealing quote go, that’s obviously hard to top. But the The Times gives it a go in its sit-down Q&A with Johanna Konta.

The rising British star is asked who her best friend was at school (“I started home schooling when I was 12. Before that, I don’t know”) what her favorite film is (“I don’t have one”) what her first memory of Wimbledon is (“Interestingly, because I spent my younger years in Australia, I don’t have many early memories of Wimbledon”) and what color her bedroom walls were as a child (“I think they were just white”).

Yet all of those revelations pale in comparison to this exchange, which includes one of the gutsiest answers I’ve ever heard to any question, in any interview.

Q: What was the first album you had?

Konta: “The Spice Girls and the Backstreet Boys. There is nothing embarrassing about the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys. They are classics.”

That’s a T-shirt-worthy quote, if I’ve ever heard one. Now we know why Konta is a professional tennis player: She backs down from no one and no thing.

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Keeping Tabs: "Heck yeah" Djokovic can win, says philosophical Agassi

Keeping Tabs: "Heck yeah" Djokovic can win, says philosophical Agassi

Simon Cambers of the The Guardian rounds out the early Wimbledon coverage by talking to Andre Agassi about his plans for his new pupil, Novak Djokovic. The takeaway? I’m guessing the locker-room motivational speeches, and the cross-Continental dialogue between the American and the Serb, should be quite interesting.

Agassi begins with a rhetorical question: “Can a guy this objectively find his way back to the trophy?”

His answer?

“Heck yeah, he could. Of course that could happen. That’s the plan, that’s always the plan—to get better—and the belief in winning has to be yours and yours alone. I think there’s enough momentum that could build to give that particular dream, hope, or objective a real shot.”

What will Andre’s lessons for Novak be?

“I can effectively say there is belief in what the plan is and how we’re going to go about it. It will get more nuanced and layered as we go—it’s problem solving and I’m enjoying learning. I’m enjoying giving some tools and I have the utmost belief that it’s going to make him once again the best of who he is.”

In the end, even if his tennis doesn’t improve, Novak will learn a lot about how to manage his finances from Andre.

“You heart and mind is a bank account,” Agassi says. “You’ve got to give it more than you take out of it. When you cross that line, you file for bankruptcy.”

Was this Andre’s sly way of trolling Novak’s last coach, Boris Becker? Either way, that’s it for the Tuesday papers. Enjoy the tennis, and happy 4th of July to everyone back in the States.

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Keeping Tabs: "Heck yeah" Djokovic can win, says philosophical Agassi

Keeping Tabs: "Heck yeah" Djokovic can win, says philosophical Agassi

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