The perfect percentage is 54%.
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by Craig O'Shannessy
1M ago
G’day, Jannik Sinner is the best player in the world today. Period. Sinner won Rotterdam yesterday with a gutsy 7-5, 6-4 victory over Alex De Minaur. He has now won 15 matches in a row and collected back-to-back titles after winning the Australian Open at the start of the year. But Sinner’s current purple patch goes back further than this. It actually started at Wimbledon last year, where he reached the semi-finals. Here are his tournament results starting at Wimbledon 2023. Wimbledon = Semi’s Toronto Masters 1000 = Winner Cincinnati Masters 1000 = Rd 32 US Open = Rd 16 Beijing ATP 500 = Winn ..read more
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2024 Australian Open Men’s Final: 8 Keys To Victory
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by Craig O'Shannessy
2M ago
G’day from Melbourne! It’s the vs. the in the men’s final this evening! Jannik Sinner will take on Daniil Medvedev in an intriguing match-up that will decide Grand Slam glory to start 2024. Here are seven things that will go a long way to deciding the final outcome. 1: TIME ON COURT TO THE FINAL Sinner = 14:44 hrs Medvedev = 20:33 hrs This is a substantial difference in energy exerted over the past two weeks. Sinner: Round By Round Medvedev: Round By Round Sinner’s build-up to the final has been on point. He started with four straight-set victories against some quality players, signaling ..read more
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2024 Australian Open Rd1: More Points At Net
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by Craig O'Shannessy
2M ago
G’day from Melbourne, Points played at the net are on the rise again at Melbourne Park this year. Hip, hip, hooray!!! As you may well know, I am always championing players venturing to the net to win points for a variety of reasons. Taking time away, pressuring with court position, and taking the opponent out of their comfort zone are just a few. The main one is the cold, hard facts of the win percentages! Comparing round one for the men and women at the 2024 Australian Open to the previous three years uncovers an uptick in points played at net. That’s healthy for our sport and smart for the ..read more
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Novak’s Forehand Is Being Put To Sleep
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by Craig O'Shannessy
4M ago
NEW Webinar: Tuesday, November 21: 1.00 pm US Central / 8.00 pm CET Webinar 35: The Backhand Cage G’day From Torino, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer have won the year-end ATP Finals six times. Djokovic could very well be sitting alone at the top of the mountain after the dust has settled in Torino this weekend. He must get through Carlos Alcaraz and either Jannik Sinner (who he has already lost to this week) or Daniil Medvedev to take the title. Is it a stretch to say Novak has been “struggling” in Torino this week? Maybe. Maybe not. He has been pushed to three sets in all three of his round ..read more
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Sinner d Djokovic in ATP Finals. 5 Things To Know Why
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by Craig O'Shannessy
4M ago
G’day From Torino, I had the privilege of sitting in the front row to watch Jannik Sinner vs. Novak Djokovic at the ATP Finals last night. What a high-energy, high-level match! Sinner prevailed 7-5, 6-7(5), 7-6 (2) in three hours and nine minutes of scintillating tennis. The crowd was going ape droppings for Sinner, and at times, they really got under Novak’s skin as he taunted them back with arm gestures. Five things stood out to me from the match. Here we go… 1: Novak was broken, leading 40-0 at 5-5. Things were even in the opening set between the two players up to 5-5 as big serving and sho ..read more
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The Key Stat To Break Serve More Often
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by Craig O'Shannessy
4M ago
G’day from Torino, Through the first four matches here at the 2023 ATP Finals, there have been 16 breaks of serve from 102 service games. That means players are holding 84% of the time. That’s a very solid number. As a comparison, the men held serve 78% at the US Open this year. One factor to consider is the different sizes of the data sets (4 matches compared to 127). So what is the common theme with the breaks of serve in Turin the past couple of days? Longer service games. The table below highlights the average amount of shots players hit when holding serve and when they are broken. On ave ..read more
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When Is The Right Time To Approach?
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by Craig O'Shannessy
4M ago
G’day from Torino, Novak Djokovic and Holger Rune combined to come to the net an eye-opening 56 times in their ATP Finals match last night. Djokovic defeated Rune 7-6(4), 6-7(1), 6-3 in three hours and four minutes. It was a very entertaining match, with Rune trying to throw the proverbial kitchen sink at Djokovic to rattle the cage. Boris Becker was a few seats down from me and it was fascinating to see him standing up for almost the entire match trying to pass on positive energy to Rune. He may have also been trying to get into Novak’s head as well… Net Points Won Djokovic =  62% (16/2 ..read more
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Carlos Alcaraz Has 10 Red Flags
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by Craig O'Shannessy
5M ago
Is Carlos Alcaraz in a post-Wimbledon slump? After winning both Queens and Wimbledon this year, the 20-year-old Spaniard has competed in Toronto, Cincinnati, the US Open, Beijing, and Shanghai. He failed to win any of those five events and only made one final (Cincy). So what gives? Let’s put the magnifying glass over his two most recent losses in Asia to figure out what’s going wrong when he is losing matches. Beijing Semi-Finals: Lost 7-6(4), 6-1 to Jannik Sinner  Shanghai Rd 16: Lost 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 to Grigor Dimitrov When you blend both these matches into one data set, you get an idea ..read more
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How Coco Gauff Won The US Open Final
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by Craig O'Shannessy
7M ago
G’day from New York! Defense defeated offense. Speed of foot defeated speed of racket. Coco Gauff defeated Aryna Sabalenka. Gauff defeated Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in a remarkable display of courage, determination, positive match rituals, defensive prowess, and a single-minded between-point routine that never changed, no matter if she won or lost the point. Everything looked exactly the same until she fell to the court, instantly sobbing after winning match point. Like so many three-set matches, the most important time was the first game of the second set. That’s where Gauff won the match. She ..read more
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2023 US Open Semi Djokovic v Shelton. The Only 5 Things That Matter
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by Craig O'Shannessy
7M ago
Let’s say for a moment that Ben Shelton somehow finds a way to defeat Novak Djokovic in their US Open semi-final this afternoon (3:00 pm start). How would it happen? How in the world would he pull it off? There are five distinct pathways to victory that all need to merge to spawn such a shocking, dramatic victory. Here they are. 1: RALLY LENGTH (Tournament Average = 68% in 0-4 Shots) To the semi-finals, Shelton is playing a speedy 76% of his points in the 0-4 rally length. To be clear, both players only hit the ball in the court a MAXIMUM of two times for it to qualify for this rally leng ..read more
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