Introduction If Botic van de Zandschulp is water: a lovely, languid figure that redirects pace and carves out corners, Márton Fucsovics is earth: an unyielding, solid mass that absorbs pressure until, with one minute shift, the court shakes like a magnitude-eight earthquake. On semi-final day,...Continue reading
Introduction As with any match including Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, the serve was the main character in his quarter-final matchup against Hamad Medjedovic. For the majority of the first set, the 22-year-old Serbian looked to be the better player. Both players ended the set with an...Continue reading
Introduction As the heart of Hurricane Erin strikes the North Carolina coast, Winston-Salem is left with the remnants of an American southern summer. Under the overcast skies, a faint, dusty orange glow spreads through the late afternoon, clashing with the blue-green of the court and...Continue reading
Introduction The Canadian National Bank Open stretches over the dog days of summer. As the tennis world edges closer to the US Open, the evenings grow longer, but the heat remains the same. Color now adorns the backs of tournament contenders, a stark disturbance in...Continue reading
IMAGE CREDIT: Jack Draper AELTC/Florian Eisele In the first two rounds of Wimbledon, 36 seeded players have been eliminated, 17 on the women’s side and 19 for the men. This includes half of the current ATP top 10. Jack Draper is the most recent of...
Submitted for the 2025 BTJA Mike Dickson Award, this article was highly commended by the panel. Last July, I found myself searching for pockets of shade between the seats of the FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington DC. Omnipresent storm clouds hung overhead as Sebastian Korda...Continue reading
ATP Dubai Open Analysis 3/8/2024 25-year-old Ugo Humbert’s record against Daniil Medvedev is, after their meeting last week in Dubai, 3-1 in favor of the Frenchman. For a player that had, before February, never been ranked higher than 20 in the world, this is a...Continue reading
ATP Qatar Open Analysis 2/25/2024 Context At 3,000 points less than 4th ranked Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, according to Tennis Channel’s stream, had little to fight for this week at Doha 250. Most would disagree with this take. Every game played by Rublev is warfare....
WTA Elite Trophy Semi-Final Analysis 12/28/2023 Beatriz Haddad Maia has been a contender at the top of the women’s game for the better part of the last 18 months. In August of 2022, Haddad Maia cruised to a top 20 ranking in both singles and...
Davis Cup Analysis 11/28/2023 Miomir Kecmanović should arguably be in the top 25 based on skill level, but ranks just below 50 on the charts. Tennis fans, media, and evidently Kecmanović himself were surprised by his selection as the second ranked singles competitor behind Novak...