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Since TTW loves hypotheticals, here's one that has nothing to do with primes and peaks. This one's different. 1. Pick your favourite young player. 2. You are told he will win 3 slams in his career. (So if you're a very optimistic Alcatraz or Sinner fan i.e. you believe they will win a lot more...

WTA: the wait between the 1st slam title and the next WTA title... Inspired by the "Raducanu Will Never Win Another Title" thread. This thread is about how long it takes debut slam winners to win their next title - any WTA level. This list has no other purpose than to compare how each player...

Shouldn't it be called the Borg Cup instead? Laver is Australian, he is Team World. Nobody notice this irony?

Ostapenko turned 20 when she won her FO 2017 semis. Then she won the final. Does this count as a teenage slam win or not? She started the tournament as a teenager, aged 19, won 5-6 matches of the draw as a teenager, only the final was played as a non-teenager. So is this a teen title or not...

1. Both reached and lost their first slam final 2-3 months ago. 2. Both reached and lost their 2nd slam final at USO. 3. Tunisia has no slam champions, Norway has no singles male slam champions. 4. Both frittered away their chances at the USO. Jabeur had several openings in the 2nd set, Ruud...

The way things are going Federer has a smashed knee (and God knows what else), Nadal is well on his way to invalidity, and Djokovic will also probably eventually pay a heavy price for the torture he's been subjecting his body to. Djokovic fans who naively believe that "messiahs" are exempted...

Serena --------------------- 22 more slams, no 1 Hingis ---------------------- 4 more slams, no 1 Seles ----------------------- 8 more slams, no 1 (the stabbing prevented a higher number) Graf ------------------------ 21 more slams, no 1 (Seles stabbing greatly increased her number) Arantxa...

Wilander ------------------ 6 more slams, no 1 Becker -------------------- 5 more slams, no 1 Sampras ------------------- 13 more slams, no 1 Nadal ---------------------- 21 more slams, no 1 Chang ---------------------- did not win any more slams, but had a very good career, no 2 Edberg...

As voted by ATP pros in 1992. Source: Germany's Tennis Magazin. 84 pros were given a sheet to fill out, for 12 different categories (all of which get their own separate threads here). Each pro could name one or two players per category: 3 points were awarded for the first picks, 2 points for...

If a player goes up 4-0 for example, but then loses the set 4-6... ... how do we call this? Isn't it some kind of bagel? I mean, sure, there's no bagel in the score itself, but it's still 6 games in a row - within one set, and within a set that doesn't go to 76 or 75. If there is a name for...

We wondered why Nick suddenly became a pro, after almost a decade on the tour. Well, the answer may be simple. This guy could be to "blame": Nick may have actually taken this statement seriously - then panicked - then decided to win a slam (preferably Wimbledon) before his hated rival does...

AO: Nadal - Medvedev ------------ so far so good, the real final FO: Nadal - Djokovic -------------- the real final but played in the QF W: Djokovic - Sinner -------------- the real final but played in the QF USO: Alcatraz - Sinner ------------ the real final but played in the QF...

Found this article: https://www.tennis-prose.com/bios/flagrant-behavior-by-jerks-in-pro-tennis/ Read it. Starts off with defending Zverev. In it the author gives several examples of crass behaviour from former no 1 ATP players (and one WTA journeywoman), but won't identify them. BS or real...

In 2013 FO the average height of Nadal and Ferrer was lower than 2022 USO. But to find the final in which both players were shorter than Ruud and Alcatraz, we have to go all the way back to 2004 FO, Gaudio - Coria, both shorter than 180 cm. To find the USO final when both players were shorter...

It's just a matter of time until he gets bored of playing tennis, of trying, of practicing. This year must have been extremely tough for him, because had to actually spend hours every day (?) doing tennis stuff instead of playing video games, arguing with Ruud over social media, and...

If Alcatraz had lost to Tiafoe, we may have had TWO African winners at the USO. Women's champ and men's champ. Tiafoe's parents are both born in Africa (Sierra Leone), and Jabeur is obviously Tunisian. Now, you might argue "well, Jabba lost anyway". True, but consider the power of the...

Jabberwocky defeated Garcia, hence spoiling potential history being made. Two Garcias winning - one in the men's draw, one in the women's draw. Now, before you start complaining that Carlos isn't a Garcia but a Garfia, consider this fact... Alcatraz has been misspelling his own name!!! We...

I get the impression that some Djokovic/Nadal fans, or Big 3 fans in general (i.e. Federer fans hoping for a miraculous return), intrinsically dislike Alcatraz purely because he became a threat to SPOIL their precious Slam Race. Could this be where some of the over-the-top negativity toward...

Another strange WTA statistic.

Since recency bias has become the new standard for measuring achievement on TTW, I would like your opinions on the GOAT issue. Alcatraz or Ruud? Who is the best player ever?

AO -------- R3 FO -------- R1 W --------- chose not to play USO ------- R1 She is now 0-3 in the last 3 slam matches. She is now 0-4 in the last 4 matches. She had never before lost 3 slam matches in a row. Her only notable 2022 result is the final of Miami, everything else was early...

Disgust? Kovinic was destroyed in 2 of her last 5 matches, all of which she lost in straight sets. Didn't win one set since May. 67 26 06 26 16 16 67 16 36 57 Is Kovinic the EASIEST GIFT opponent in the entire draw? And how "accidental" is this really... Furthermore, Venus "randomly" drew...

Predicting the winner is impossible. Even at the QF stage it might be very difficult. Always a crap-shoot, at least in recent years. However, I can tell you which players have no chance, which have very small chances, and which belong to that "narrower" circle of favourites. Based on recent...

Zverev had never defeated a top 10 player at a slam... ... until Alcatraz was nice enough to lose to him at FO 22. Norrie had never defeated a top 10 player at a either a slam or a M1000 event... ... until Alcatraz was nice enough to lose to him at Cincinnati 22. In fact, Norrie was 5-24 vs...

Is it even possible? Are her coaches on sedatives? Do they get depressed and plan harakiri? This girl hits every single ball full power. No variation, no slicing (unless she really has to), no dropshots. Just BLASTING. All the time. As hard as she can whip it. So how is she coached? What can...

Correction. As long as Djokovic, Nadal, Busta, Isner, Murray, Wawrinka, Thiem, Cilic, Schwartzman, Vinolas, Agut, Verdasco, Dimitrov, Basilashvili, Monfils, Evans, Sousa, Krajinovic, Fognini, Duckworth, Goffin, Vesely, Lajovic, Mannarino, Coria, Gasquet, Millman, Kudla and Berankis are active...

WTA matches have been quite entertaining in recent years, with more and more crazy momentum swings, with numerous upsets and with many matches impossible to predict. Typical score history: 3-0 3-5 7-5 7-5 2-0 7-5 3-6 7-5 3-6 1-3 7-5 3-6 6-3 It's partly because the WTA has far more even...

WTA has been notoriously unpredictable in the recent decade, especially the last few seasons, but there are certain indicators that may help in at least predicting which of the slam holders have a chance. "Instagrammity factor" basically means how high the "social media corruption/distraction...

Bouzkova made 0 winners, 8 unforced errors. Potapova made 12 winners, 44 unforced errors. Did we ever have a pro of either sex ever win a final without playing a winner? I mean, I get it, Bouzkova didn't need to play any winners against a player who kept missing everything, but still...

A sport within a sport? Yes, unused match points is one of the most popular sports in women's tennis. This WTATennis page keeps track of a very long and speedily increasing list of matches won when defending MPs. For 2022...