WEEK: 08.21.2017 American Sloane Stephens gets the mover of the week honors. Four tournaments played since her return from foot surgery and the American is making noise. In her first two tournaments, she lost in the first round; however, she made it to the semifinals in the last two tournaments. She will take a break…
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Rafael Nadal turned professional in 2001 and did not win his first ATP Tour title until 2004. He cracked the top ten for the first time on April 25th, 2005, at number seven. Exactly three months later, he got to number two in the rankings. Nadal maintained that number two ranking until August 18th, 2008…
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Western & Southern Open, USA [2] Simona Halep (ROU) vs. [6] Garbine Muguruza (ESP) 2:1 was their head-to-head coming into this final favoring Muguruza; however, Halep won their last encounter. Would that benefit Halep? Muguruza has traditionally underperformed after doing well at the Majors, perhaps that should have helped the Romanian. Yet, Halep has struggled…
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W&S Open, USA [2] Rafael Nadal (USA) vs. [29] Richard Gasquet (FRA) Their head-to-head coming into this match was 14:0 in favor of Nadal. Confidence should have been high for Nadal; however, losing his last match to someone he should have defeated carried over to the beginning of this match and Nadal was very tentative….
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W&S Open, USAÂ Injury continues take a toll on the game of many tennis players and three have been forced to end their season prematurely. Hopefully the remainder will recover in time for the last major of the season, which is less than two weeks away. PLAYER RANK INJURY Andy Murray 1 Murray put so…
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WEEK: 08.14.2017 It was a week of highs for Denis Shapovalov; he got to his first semifinals of an ATP Tour event, which just happened to be a Masters 1000 event, Coupe Rogers. If that was not impressive enough, he knocked out the number two ranked player on Tour, Rafael Nadal, en route to accomplishing this…
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