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Takashi Williams is a freelance sports journalist based in New York City.

Currently a contributing writer at The Athletic and The Second Serve, his work has also appeared in The Nation, Slate, The Progressive Magazine, Sports Illustrated, CLAY, STRUNG(Dirt.fyi), and Tennis.com(Tennis Channel).

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Primarily a tennis writer, Takashi specializes in covering the intersection of sports and culture. Before professionally freelancing, he wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator during his four years at Columbia University and graduated as a double major in English and honors in Ethnicity/Race Studies.

He wrote an award-winning senior thesis exploring misogynoir on the women’s tennis circuit and was fortunate to have taken courses taught by the likes of Jhumpa Lahiri, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Maria Hinojosa.