#NextGenATP Jared Donaldson breaks the American mould. The 20-year-old Donaldson, 20, who lives in Irvine, California, is racing up the Emirates ATP Rankings in 2017, enjoying a career-high position at No. 51 this week. He started 2017 at No. 105, playing a mix of ATP Challenger and ATP World Tour events for the first four months of the season. Now he is doing damage only in the big leagues, and he is doing it in an unconventional way for an American prodigy. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis reveals that, in general, American players are more proficient on the serving side of the game than returning. For example, there are currently four American players in the Top 26 of...
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Since 2008, the best returner in the game has either been Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal. Those two players have finished atop the Infosys ATP Return Games Won LEADERBOARD every year for the past nine seasons, but neither of them are currently first in 2017. The surprise package who is dominating on the return side of the equation so far this year is Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman. Schwartzman, 24, boasts his career best Emirates ATP Ranking of No. 33 this week, primarily driven by winning a tour-leading 36 per cent (192/532) of his return games. Nadal is in second place winning 34 per cent (212/626), while Djokovic is in fourth place, winning 31 per cent (141/461). At 5’7”, 141 lbs, Schwartzman...
Four more points is all you need. You have put yourself into position to win the match, and now you need to serve it out. The Top 10 players in the world are clutch in situations just like this but none of them are perfect on serve with the match on the line. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of the Top 10 (on 31 July) reveals that, since the start of the 2015 season, they have combined to hold serve just under 90 per cent of the time when serving out a match. They are performing slightly better in the 2017 season, but nobody has held every single time they have had the opportunity to seal the match....
