Watch the five best Hot Shots from the ATP Challenger Tour in the month of January, featuring Filip Peliwo, Kei Nishikori, Denis Kudla, Mikael Ymer and Leander Paes.
It was an early candidate for Hot Shot of the year, as Tecnifibre's Filip Peliwo races to the baseline to strike a stunning tweener at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Newport Beach.
Filip Peliwo celebrated the seminal moment of his young career on Sunday, breaking through as an ATP Challenger Tour champion for the first time. The 23-year-old Canadian defeated Denis Kudla 6-4, 6-2 to claim his maiden Challenger crown on the indoor hard courts of Knoxville. Peliwo streaked to the title in impressive fashion, dropping just one set in eight matches as a qualifier. Peliwo toppled eighth seed Tommy Paul, a surging Liam Broady, third seed Taylor Fritz and second seed Henri Laaksonen, before ousting Kudla in the final. A former junior No. 1 and champion at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2012, Peliwo has struggled in his transition to the professional circuit. Having fallen outside the Top 500 in...