In beating Hubert Hurkacz 3-6, 6-0, 7-6 (5), Novak Djokovic has secured a seventh career year-end number one finish, setting yet another ATP all-time record. He's well clear of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer -- both at five -- and
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How much power do crowds have in tennis? At their most partisan, they can be a massive nuisance for the player not enjoying the support. Imagine over 10,000 people screaming in delirious joy not after your opponent wins the match,
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Note: links are used throughout this article. The links aren't visible naturally, so I've bolded the places where links are embedded (headings are not links). I've been a tennis fan since the 2016 Roland-Garros tournament. Though I've enjoyed every step
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In the first round of this year's Paris Masters, lucky loser Dominik Koepfer upset Andy Murray, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (9). He saved an astonishing seven match points, some of them with sequences of play you'd have to see to believe.
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Earlier today, Frances Tiafoe trailed Jannik Sinner 3-6, 0-3, 15-40 in the semifinals of the Vienna Open. Tiafoe battled hard for holds of serve in the second set, hitting some dazzling shots to stay afloat. Sinner was holding serve easily,
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18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz beat world number seven Matteo Berrettini 6-1, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5) in the Vienna Open quarterfinals today. The match wasn't as closely contested as the average third-set-breaker battle; Alcaraz won 15 more points in the match and
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Click here for the first four editions of "Return Error." Andy Murray is a fairly easy player to understand. He plays similarly to how he behaves on court: the iron-wristed crosscourt backhands reflect his consistent intensity, the way he scrambles
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Attempting to win a tennis match is a cruel, convoluted race. On a micro scale, each player is trying simply to win points. But from a wider view, each game is a battle to get to game point and then
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Tennys Sandgren vs. Thiago Monteiro in the first round of the 2021 Indian Wells Masters. After about an hour and a half of play, Sandgren steps to the baseline to serve for the match at 6-4, 5-3. It’s a blessing,
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Mardy Fish's documentary Untold: Breaking Point was released on Netflix recently. One of the central threads was the pressure put on the American male players to fill the shoes of Sampras, Agassi, Courier, and the other greats of the 90s.
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