Tennis - ATP World Tour – Tagged "2016" – Page 18

Nov 29, 2016

Watch NextGen Behind The Scenes Documentary Part I

ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot goes behind the scenes with NextGen ATP stars during the Asian swing.

Nov 29, 2016

Rivalries Of 2016: Thiem vs. Zverev

Continuing our Season In Review series, ATPWorldTour.com revisits the fiercest rivalries of 2016. Today we feature Dominic Thiem vs. Alexander Zverev: The future superstars of the ATP World Tour made their presence known with significant statements in 2016. Players aged 19-23 accounted for 11 titles in total and two of them wasted no time in kicking off a budding rivalry. Longtime sporting adversaries Austria and Germany added Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev to the fray, with the pair meeting on four occasions this year. Each encounter proved to be an intense clash of exuberance and shotmaking, as 23-year-old Thiem and 19-year-old Zverev contested a trio of three-set clashes on the ATP World Tour, in addition to a four-set battle at...

Nov 28, 2016

Del Potro Plays Through Broken Finger Against Cilic

Juan Martin del Potro has endured more pain than most tennis players during his injury-stinted career, including four wrist surgeries during the past seven years. So of course he wasn't going to let a broken left pinky finger stop him during his final match of the season on Sunday. Del Potro and Marin Cilic were tied two sets a piece during their Davis Cup match when the Argentine broke his smallest left finger while trying to catch a missed Cilic serve off the bounce. Del Potro played through the injury, though, and improved upon his already impressive 2016 by coming back from two-sets down for the first time in his career to beat Cilic 6-7(4), 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 in four...

Nov 28, 2016

Del Potro, Other Top Players Find Success Behind Second Serves

Twenty years ago was the golden age of the big server. Players such as Goran Ivanisevic, Pete Sampras, Richard Krajicek and Boris Becker dominated during an unprecedented period of first-serve dominance, the mid- to late 1990s. Today, it’s superiority behind the second serve that has risen to prominence as players look to climb the Emirates ATP Rankings. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of first- and second-serve win percentages beginning in 1991, when such statistics were first kept in tennis, to the 2016 season, shows a clear and dramatic transition of where players are excelling to begin the point. Performance categories were created with the following criteria: First-serve points won at 80 per cent or higher; Second-serve points won...

Nov 28, 2016

Celebrating The Best Of 2016

Join us in coming weeks as we re-live the drama and excitement of 2016 in our annual review of the ATP World Tour season. We begin this week with the five most intriguing rivalries of 2016. We'll also look at the best matches, biggest comebacks, most stunning upsets, statistics, hot shots, off-court fun and more. Look for new content each day as we reflect on a great year and count down to the start of the 2017 season, which begins Jan. 1 in Brisbane (and Jan. 2 in Doha and Chennai). The Rivalries Andy Murray v Milos Raonic Dominic Thiem v Alexander Zverev Andy Murray v Novak Djokovic Juan Martin del Potro v Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka Andy Murray...