Nadal, Djokovic, Federer and Murray: What Do the Stats Say About Their Game?

My complaint against ATP is that they don’t really make it easy to study stats. They do have match facts, but they are confined to this year. Anyway, I decided to work with what I have to draw some conclusions about the game of the top four. Service game stats:   Name Aces No. 1st serve % age 1st serve points won % age 2nd serve points won % age Service games won % age Break... 

Rafael Nadal: 4 Reasons He Has to Be US Open Favorite

No. 2 in the ATP World Tour Rankings for the first time since the days of Roger Federer‘s dominance, Rafael Nadal is looking to put forth a strong effort at the 2011 U.S. Open. Set to begin Aug. 29, this year’s U.S. Open has the makings to be one for the ages. As far as Nadal is concerned, Rafa comes off a crushing defeat to Novak Djokovic in the final of the 2011 Wimbledon after... 

Why Tennis Players Should Be Required To Get A College Education

The 1,878th (tied for last in the ATP Standings) singles player in the world, Tilen Zitnik, has made a combined total of $4,219 in singles and doubles play in his entire career. The minimum wage in the lowest paying state, Minnesota, is $6.55 an hour. If Zitnik was working a normal nine-to-five every day with a one-month vacation and a one-hour lunch break, he would receive $11,004 for the year. Tennis... 

Lleyton Hewitt and the Top 15 Australian Men in Tennis History

Tennis is a sport that is rivaled by few when it comes to how diverse the field is of athletes taking part at any given time in the many tournaments taking place around the world each year. In looking at the diversity, I decided to take on researching and developing this slideshow that will look at the top 15 players to have played or currently play under the Australian flag. I will present a snapshot... 

Serena Williams: 3 Reasons She Has to Be the Favorite at the U.S. Open

The 2011 U.S. Open is still a little more than a month away, yet American Serena Williams has already been pegged as the favorite to win this year’s title. Last month at Wimbledon, Williams, playing in her first major since undergoing foot surgery, was knocked out by Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli in the fourth round. Looking for her 14th Grand Slam title, Williams has committed to numerous tournaments... 

Baku Cup: Mariya Koryttseva Ousts Elena Baltacha

World No. 165 Mariya Koryttseva upset the only seeded player to play at the Baku Cup on Monday, who is almost a hundred spots above her. The Ukrainian won the match 6-1, 7-5 in an hour and 45 minutes at the first hard-court tournament of the summer. This is not the first time Koryttseva has upset Elena Baltacha. She outplayed the top British player last year in Moscow in the Round of 16 on the indoor... 

2011 U.S. Open: 5 Reasons Roger Federer Has a Shot to Win the Tournament

Almost everyone believes Novak Djokovic will win the 2011 U.S. Open.  Fans are saying it, oddsmakers are saying it and even some here at Bleacher Report are saying it. But, despite the overwhelming majority that is siding with the Serb, former universal favorite Roger Federer still very much has a shot at winning the U.S. Open himself.  It was only a short few years ago that the conversation... 

Rafael Nadal: Can He Recover His Number One Ranking?

The question whether Rafael Nadal can recover his number one ranking should be split up into two parts: (i) Can he recover it by year-end? (ii) Can he recover it sometime in the future? The answer to (i) is : Most probably No. In fact unless something unexpected happens to Djokovic, it is difficult for the Spaniard to overtake the Serb in ranking points by year-end. Their year-to-date points are Djokovic:... 

2011 German Open Preview: Gael Monfils Leads Stacked Field in Hamburg

World No. 7 Gael Monfils and Jurgen Melzer lead the field at this week’s bet-at-home Open German Tennis Championships in Hamburg, the first ATP Tour 500 level event since Barcelona in April. The top six seeded players are the same ones that lost in the early rounds of the MercedesCup in Stuttgart last week. Monfils faces a potentially tricky match-up against 57th-ranked Radek Stepanek, who he... 

The Top 10 Funniest Interviews with Rafael Nadal

Anybody who has heard Rafael Nadal speak in an interview is accustomed to his most frequently used phrase: “Well for sure, no?” But, the King of Clay has come up with many other laughable lines over the years as well. Rafael Nadal means no harm off the tennis court. He constantly commends his fellow players and says how good they are, even when he himself would beat them in comfortable... 

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