Fifteen-all is a leaking ship. The boat is still afloat, still steaming along in the right direction, but it is definitely taking on a little water that the server probably does not know about. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of the Top 10 in the Emirates ATP Rankings shows a modest decline in the win percentage for the server from the start of the game at love-all to two points later at 15/15. Top 10 Average Win Percentage 0/0 = 85% 15/15 = 82% The Top 10 average a three percentage-point drop from 0/0 to 15/15, as the finish line for the game moves from four points away, to just three points away. Top 10 Hold Percentage At...
From No. 1067 in the Emirates ATP Rankings to facing John Isner in the second round of the Australian Open, Mischa Zverev has come a long ways in the past two years. ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot has the story.
Ivo Karlovic has been at it again! This time engraving his name in the Australian Open record books. The 6’11” Croatian fought back from an 0-2 sets deficit to beat Horacio Zeballos 6-7(6), 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 22-20 in five hours and 14 minutes on Tuesday night for a place in the second round. The match fell 38 minutes short of Novak Djokovic’s win over Rafael Nadal in the 2012 final, which lasted five hours and 53 minutes. The Karlovic-Zeballos match lasted 84 games breaking the Australian Open record since the introduction of the tie-break in 1972, surpassing Andy Roddick and Younes El Aynaoui's 2003 classic of 83 games – including a 21-19 fifth set. “This match is what I will,...
See how the Emirates ATP Rankings look after week two of the 2017 ATP World Tour season, on 9 January 2017, following tournaments in Auckland and Sydney.