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...
Nitto ATP Finals Analysis 11/18/2023 Context – Sinner is on top Before the China Open this year, Jannik Sinner had only ever beaten one top ten player in Carlos Alcaraz. Heading into this year’s ATP finals, Sinner had beaten Alcaraz (again), Daniil Medvedev (twice) and...Continue reading
Nitto ATP Finals Analysis 11/15/2023 Daniil Medvedev rarely loses to players that do not play with variety. Called “Octopus” by a number of his compatriots, the Russian excels at counterpunching his way through just about any opponent. Carlos Alcaraz is a great example of a...Continue reading