Best opponents Alcaraz and Sinner have beat to win their Slams so far vs. the best opponents Federer and Nadal beat from 2004-2007 to win theirs
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Sabalenka withdraws from Beijing
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Which players hit the largest percentage of topspin baseline groundstrokes? Tennis Insights' "core shots" statistic excludes all "varied" shots such as dropshots/slices/volleys.
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Roger Federer has 2 match points
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The current WTA top 10's hold% and break% over the last 52 weeks
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(2019 Wuhan SF) Sabalenka hits an insane BH winner from outside the court on match point against world #1 Ashleigh Barty
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(2015 IW final) Djokovic counterattacks and pins Federer in the backhand corner before finishing with an inside-out FH
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Holger Rune's returning practice
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ATP top 10 ranked by percentage of baseline points won
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When does Kirk Cousins get traded this season?
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Daniel Jones in his first 2 games as a Colt: 71.4% completion rate, 588 yards, 5 total TDs, 0 turnovers, 111.1 rating
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After losing the deciding match to Czechia vs. Jakub Mensik, Frances Tiafoe is now a career 1-7 at the Davis Cup, with his only win against then-#275 Mejia. Team USA has been eliminated.
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A comparison of trajectories: Taking a look at WTA year-end ELO by age for some active players. ELO data from Tennis Abstract and live ELO used for 2025 due to year not being over yet.
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Davis Cup: Lehecka(CZE) def. Tiafoe (USA) 6-3 6-2, Czechia lead 1-0
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Nadal AO 22 final win was seen a borderline miracle at the time, but 20-30 years from now will be seen as “22 Slam guy beats 1 Slam guy.” What other accomplishments have aged to look relatively expected when they absolutely weren’t at the time?
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The 2025 WTA race visualized (credit @womtennis on Twitter)
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The end of the "random" WTA era: After a clear trough between 2017 and 2022, recent years have seen a clear rise in performance among the top tier. For example, current #3 Gauff has 7874 points, which would be enough for year-end #1 in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.
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How effective are the ATP top 15's 1st serves and what kind of damage/percentage tradeoff do they have? This graph compares their 1st serve% and % of 1st serves that go unreturned over the last 52 weeks. What stands out the most?
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How the Sabatek rivalry since 2023 has arguably been the biggest analytical outlier in tennis history: Here are the WTA top 3's total points won% vs. ranking points earned in the entire 2022-2024 seasons as well as in the last 12 months. Other players included for comparison purposes.
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Geometric mean of average opponent ranking for each of Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer in their Slam-winning runs
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A late-blooming outlier? Until this week, all female 4+ Slam winners in the Open Era had reached their 1st Slam final by the age of 21. However, recent 4-time winner Aryna Sabalenka didn't reach her final Slam final until the age of 24 years and 8 months at AO 2023.
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The 2025 Slam season is officially over! Make your predictions for 2026's winners and finalists.
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Fun fact: Sharapova won a lower percentage of points head-to-head against Serena (43.5%) than De Minaur has won against Sinner (44.1%) and only slightly higher than Gasquet won against Nadal (43.1%)
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