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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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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Novak Djokovic is on the cusp of what would be the crowning achievement of the Golden Era in men's tennis: the Calendar Grand Slam. He's won his first 27 matches in majors this year, bagging titles in Melbourne, Paris (after
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"Return Error" will be a new series on this site dedicated to thoughts or ideas that are too long for Twitter threads but too short to write in the usual article format. 18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz just defeated world #3 Stefanos
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How do you beat Novak Djokovic, besides hoping for him to have an off day? Having a massive forehand helps. After all, Federer and Nadal have beaten him over 20 times each and may have the best forehands ever. Even
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Novak Djokovic beating Rafael Nadal in the Roland-Garros semifinals in June was the most pivotal match of 2021. The result essentially sealed Djokovic's status as the greatest of all time. In performing the toughest task tennis has ever offered against
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Ivo Karlović, at six feet and eleven inches tall, is a handful to play even in his 43rd year. Bernabé Zapata Miralles looked to have the measure of the massive Croatian -- he flicked passing shots throughout the first set, and
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I’m watching the warmup with Illya Marchenko closest to me, and he’s still absolutely dwarfed by the six-nine Kevin Anderson. For me, the big South African carries a fair amount of presence on court — this is a man who
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The Hall of Fame Open, hosted in Newport, Rhode Island, is the only professional grass court tournament in North America (or anywhere outside Europe, for that matter, according to Wikipedia). The facility is pretty incredible. There is a center court
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Novak Djokovic has played a lot of major semifinals. He's squeaked out wins by slim margins (2011 U.S. Open), he's thrashed his opponents (pretty much every Australian Open semifinal he's played besides 2012), and he's suffered a heartbreaking loss or
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