Former Wimbledon doubles champion Horia Tecau is now a published author. The Romanian wrote a children's book titled, 'Viata in ritm de tenis', translated in English to 'Life in the rhythm of tennis', to show children the importance of sports and reading. The 110-page book encourages children to pursue their dreams through hard work and how to persevere through life's challenges. “It's full of lessons that I've learned through my tennis experiences,” Tecau said. Buy The Book Tecau provided space in the book for children to write their own dreams as well. He launched the book with about 300 kids on 12 December in Bucharest. The 31-year-old Tecau has won 29 tour-level doubles titles, including 2015 Wimbledon, 2015 Barclays ATP...
Next November, the ATP World Tour’s brightest young stars will take the stage in Milan for the Next Gen ATP Finals. Billed as the ‘Next Generation’ during the campaign launch this past March in Indian Wells, this group of players unleashed their potential in 2016. In total, 22 players aged 21 and under finished in the Top 200 of the Emirates ATP Rankings, including eight inside the Top 100. Continuing our season in review series, we look back on the 2016 campaigns of the top NextGen players. [ALSO LIKE] No. 13 Nick Kyrgios (21 years, 7 months) The Australian clinched a trio of titles in 2016 to place fifth among tour leaders behind Andy Murray (9), Novak Djokovic (7), Dominic...
Who will prevail as NextGen stars and fans go head-to-head in a Pokemon Go battle in Cincinnati Starring Nick Kyrgios, Sascha Zverev, Taylor Fritz, Borna Coric and Kyle Edmund.
You are serving, down break point. The initial element of a successful hold strategy is to make your first serve. You would think this would come naturally for the Top 20 players in the Emirates ATP Rankings – an innate ability to elevate their games in moments of crisis. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of 13,295 break points against Top 20 players in both the 2015 and 2016 seasons actually showed just the opposite, with this elite group struggling like players at all levels of the game to find new heights when they need them the most. Only four of the Top 20 in 2016 made more first serves down break point than they did on average during...
