choke

2024 IW SF, loss - overall 62.2% 1st serve in, which is fine, but only 53.3% in the third set, where he got rekt 6-2. Out of the 11 sets Sinner played in the tournament, that was his second worst figure (the worst was a diabolical 35.7% in the second set against Lehecka, which didn't matter...

On its own the greatest choke job in tennis history is undoubtedly 2019 Wimbledon on serve double Championship point. However Daniil Medvedev has etched himself in the record books as the first man to TWICE lose a Slam Final leading 2-0. His opponents were 35 year old dragged out Nadal and...

Just wanted to alert the board of this hilarity, if a little belated. Serbian Laslo Djere gets his name into the record books by losing yet another tiebreak to Franco Agamemnone in the first round of Umag, cementing his memory as a professional choker who plays tennis. Djere won a tiebreak in...

On one hand, he has won a slam, reached a few slam finals, won Indian Wells, titles on different surfaces, but on the other hand, he has failed to deliver on the biggest stages more often than not. He hardly put up a fight against Nadal at RG (Ken Rosewall notably called his game 'disappointing'...

It is hard to deny that Zverev has helped Djokovic to dominate in 2021. Basically that famous ultrachoke in 2020 USO final was a blessing for Djokovic. Since then Thiem is in a downward spiral. He is no longer a real threat in ATP badly lacking a motivation. Zverev defeating Thiem at 2020...

I think it's time for us to formulate some hypothetical (mythical, uninjured, peak, sodomized etc.) Top Trump cards for the NextGen SUPERSTARS. To kick things off, I propose the following defining attributes to reflect their abilities, each of which can be ascribed a score from 1 to 10. Overhype...

So i did my research before playing this pusher last weekend knowing that he would be getting every ball back and feasting on my mistakes and whatnot and i was up 4-1, and somehow just let everything slip and ended up losing 5-7. I kept up the active footwork and hit the deep knowing that would...