Dominic Thiem discusses his 2017 campaign on the ATP World Tour, in which he broke into the Top 5 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, and looks ahead to what he will do to move his game forward even more in 2018.
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.
Continuing our Season In Review series, ATPWorldTour.com revisits the five biggest Grand Slam upsets of 2017. (5) Andrey Rublev d. Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 7-6(3), 6-3 – US Open Second Round Grigor Dimitrov had arrived, again. After reaching the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Rankings in 2014, the Bulgarian was back among the elite this August and again a favourite to make a deep run at Grand Slams. A week before the US Open, Dimitrov had won his maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati. The seventh seed was a trendy pick to reach the second week in Flushing Meadows. Read More: Rublev Honest After Tough Loss In Milan But #NextGenATP Russian...
Continuing our Season In Review series, ATPWorldTour.com revisits the top 5 ATP World Tour upsets of 2017. (5) Vasek Pospisil d. Andy Murray 6-4, 7-6(5) – BNP Paribas Open Second Round Vasek Pospisil has the game to beat the top players. In January 2014, he reached No. 25 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, and a year later, he was in the quarter-finals of The Championships, Wimbledon (l. to Murray). His serve-and-volley game can flummox the greatest. So even though Pospisil had been beset with injuries and had a triple-digit number (No. 129) next to his name, the Canadian, who had recently started working with former doubles No. 1 Mark Woodforde, surely believed he could shock the BNP Paribas Open and...
Continuing our Season In Review series, ATPWorldTour.com looks at the best two Grand Slam matches of the 2017 season. 2. Del Potro d. Thiem, US Open, Round of 16 - 4 September 2017 (Match Stats) Juan Martin del Potro appeared far closer to a plane ride back to Argentina than he did to a spot in the quarter-finals in Flushing Meadows when he faced the up-and-coming sixth seed, Dominic Thiem, on Grandstand in the fourth round at the US Open. Thiem dominated the first two sets in just over an hour, and it seemed a lethargic Del Potro was wilting away — and quickly — due to a flu-like illness. There was no second wind in sight for the ‘Tower...