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Kyrgios' Stellar Serving Sparks Best Year On Tour

The four players with the most impressive serve statistics since records were first kept in 1991 are Ivo Karlovic, John Isner, Milos Raonic and Andy Roddick. That list makes total sense. What you may not realize is who is fifth. It’s Nick Kyrgios. Kyrgios ended 2016 with his career best Emirates ATP Ranking at No. 13, winning three ATP World Tour titles in Marseille, Atlanta and Tokyo, going 39-15 on the season. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of the enigmatic 21-year-old Australian reveals he is already establishing himself as one of the best servers in the history of our sport. Kyrgios is ranked fifth in SERVE LEADERS on the ATP Serve Stats LEADERBOARDS, which is calculated using the...

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Biggest Grand Slam Comebacks Of 2016

Continuing our Season In Review Series, ATPWorldTour.com revisits the biggest Grand Slam comebacks of 2016: 4) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga d. John Isner 6-7(3), 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-2, 19-17/3R/Wimbledon With several second-round matches to be completed, the All England Club announced that play would take place on the Middle Sunday at The Championships for only the fourth time in the tournament's 139-year history (also 1991, 1997 and 2004). Tickets sold out within an hour of going on sale on Saturday afternoon, and it was to Court No. 2 where most fans headed. John Isner, the No. 18 seed, led No. 12 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-7(5). Isner had been close to ending the match a day earlier. He missed two break points...

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Biggest ATP World Tour Comebacks Of 2016

Continuing our Season In Review Series, ATPWorldTour.com revisits the biggest ATP World Tour comebacks of 2016: 3) Kei Nishikori d. Gael Monfils 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(3) – Miami quarter-finals Kei Nishikori left his comfort zone on an oppressively hot and muggy day in Key Biscayne by finding a way to come through one of the matches of 2016 on the ATP World Tour. At the end, his shirt saturated, he embraced Gael Monfils following a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(3) victory for a place in the semi-finals of the Miami Open presented by Itau. After saving five match points in the two-and-a-half-hour contest, sixth seed Nishikori admitted, “When I was down 4-5, love-40, I thought it was going to be it. It was...

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NextGen Surge Highlights 2016 Challenger Storylines

The 2016 ATP Challenger Tour season was filled with many intriguing storylines and pulsating moments. With 165 tournaments in 44 countries and territories, there was no shortage of entertaining tennis, as players fought for crucial Emirates ATP Rankings points. ATPWorldTour.com looks back at the season that was...  NextGen Stars Make Their Mark Rising players continued to have a major impact on the ATP Challenger Tour, with #NextGen stars racking up 17 titles in total. Teenagers comprised 13 of those 17 victories. Among the #NextGen winners were Andrey Rublev, Daniil Medvedev, Hyeon Chung, Elias Ymer, Yoshihito Nishioka and Kyle Edmund. Emerging Americans also made their presence felt in the second half of 2016. Frances Tiafoe won his first Challenger title in...

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