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The Impossible Point is a short, unsettling novella that blends psychological thriller and sporting reportage to dig into the hidden mechanisms of modern elite tennis.
The story opens on the day before a memorable grass-court match in England between Grigor Dimitrov and Jannik Sinner. Dimitrov is playing some of the best tennis of his career, Sinner is the rising star with all the spotlight on him. Twenty-four hours later, a single point ends with Dimitrov clutching his chest, retiring injured, disappearing from the tournament – and quietly fading from the media stage as well. The crowd sees bad luck. The headlines talk about “one of those things that happen in sport.” But the slow-motion replays don’t quite add up.
As the media rush to fix the narrative, cracks start to show in the spotless surface of the tour: strange coincidences, scripted rivalries, silent edits to the official story. Is it all just human error and bias, or is there a System deciding who gets to win, who must lose, and what the public is allowed to see?
Mixing Philip K. Dick–style paranoia with almost forensic analysis of a single impossible rally, The Impossible Point asks a simple question with disturbing consequences: what if tennis was never just a game?
