About the publication

FG Samartsidis is a sport science publication — a place where tennis, training, pedagogy, sport psychology, and the quieter disciplines of athletic life are written about with patience. The pages here cover what most outlets skip: the small biomechanical details, the coaching decisions that don't fit a caption, the manifesting and mindset work that sits behind every serious athlete, and the corners of sport few people know exist — including the world of deaf athletics and the Deaflympics, where Olympians compete in a silence the broadcast never carries.

The intention of this publication is to teach sport the way it's actually lived — slowly, technically, and without shortcuts. Tennis sits at the centre, but the scope is wider: strength, recovery, the psychology of competition, the pedagogy of coaching young athletes, and the unwritten craft passed between players who've spent years on court. Some essays are introductory. Others go where almost no one writes — into the specific, the granular, the things only a coach who has lived them can name.

The science is the easy part. The art is knowing which paper to forget on Tuesday morning.

Founded by Grigorios Samartsidis

FG Samartsidis is founded and written by Grigorios Samartsidis — a sport scientist in training, tennis coach, and competitive athlete based in Nicosia, Cyprus. A full-scholarship student at the University of Nicosia, ranked among the top 500 universities worldwide, he writes from fifteen years on court and a competitive career that has carried him across more than fifteen countries, from Brazil to Japan.

His record on court includes the No. 1 ranking in Cyprus men's singles, a career-high world No. 7 in deaf tennis, a 5th-place finish at the Deaflympic Games, the Cyprus university tennis championship, and recognition as one of Greece's top-distinguished athletes. The writing here is shaped by that experience — by the matches, the travel, the coaches, and the long hours that sit underneath every paragraph.

The work beyond the writing

Behind FG Samartsidis sits a quieter commitment: free tennis lessons for deaf children, taught with the same care given to any competitive athlete. The conviction is simple. A child grows the way a tree grows — with water, with the wooden stake that keeps the trunk straight in the early years, and with sunlight. Take any of the three away and the shape is decided long before the child had a say in it.

Too many young athletes reach the end of their road before they've started. No court nearby. No coach who speaks their language. No money for the season. Children who could have become historic in their sport are quietly closed out — not by talent, but by access. This publication exists, in part, to push against that. Every essay, every lesson, every piece of work shares the same direction: that no child should run out of road because the road was never built.

Correspondence is welcome. Disagreement, more so.