MOTW: Irina-Camelia Begu The mover of the week honors goes to Irina-Camelia Begu. The twenty-nine-year-old Romanian won the Indian Wells Oracle Challenger Series 125K tournament over the weekend. Begu was once ranked as high as number twenty-two back in 2016 and as has happened so often with athletes, injury negatively impacted her game. The path…
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MOTW: Heather Watson In 2015 Heather Watson got to a career high of thirty-eight in singles. That was the year she had Serena Williams on the ropes at Wimbledon. Although she had been to a singles final last year, she had not won a singles title since 2016. She fell out of the top hundred…
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Gianluca Mager At A Career High Mover of the week honors go to twenty-five-year-old, Gianluca Mager. Mager broke unto the scene in 2013 and en route to his first ATP Tour final, he defeated the heir apparent on clay, Dominic Thiem. Perhaps it was a bit too much to ask of the Italian, to win…
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MOVER OF THE WEEK Mover of the week honors go to Irina-Camelia Begu. She won an ITF tournament in Egypt over the weekend to give her some much-needed ranking points and more important, re-confirm her belief in her ability to win. When you have been losing more than winning, doubts creep in and you have…
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Mover Of The Week: Vesely Jiri Vesely once ranked as high as 35 (2015) has had to fight many battles with injuries, which has caused his ranking to suffer like so many other players. The impact that injury has on a player in multifactorial; it injures the body and damages the confidence. Sadly, as a…
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Movers Of The Week All tennis players look forward to the majors, they are the four biggest opportunities to boost their rankings; however, if you do poorly your ranking can remain unchanged or be drastically affected depending on what you did at that tournament the previous year. Many players will be quite happy today when…
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