It’s normally the return, but this season it was the serve that carried Rafael Nadal back to the pinnacle of our sport. Nadal finished 2017 as World No. 1 for the fourth time in his career. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of his service patterns reveals a key change that took him from personal worst-to-first marks from 2016 to 2017. The Spaniard finished first on tour with second serve points won this season at 61.5 per cent (1076/1749), recording his personal best in this specific metric since emerging onto the tour in 2003. It’s a remarkable improvement, considering he won a career low (tied with 2004) 54 per cent in 2016. [ALSO LIKE] Nadal’s second serve dominance in...
In this edition of ATPWorldTour.com's Best of 2017 series, ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot travels to Croatia to explore where #NextGenATP star Borna Coric's tennis career started and how far he's come since then.
Follow Pablo Carreno Busta through an intense day of offseason training and listen to the Spaniard reflect on the best season of his career in 2017, playing in the Nitto ATP Finals as an alternate and what is to come in his game for 2018.
Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers shows how Rafael Nadal went from worst to first in 2017 after making a radical serving pattern switch. Getty Images photo.
Steve Johnson, Taylor Fritz, and Bradley Klahn joined other tennis players and personalities this month at the 2017 Los Angeles Tennis Bash at The Jack Kramer Club to raise money for, "local multi-sport tennis and learning programs for deserving youth".