Dominic Thiem, coming off a Beijing championship, was not expected to go all the way and win in Shanghai, on a fast hardcourt surface which doesn’t...
Alexander Zverev was thoroughly outclassed by Daniil Medvedev in the Shanghai Masters final… but this is a first-world problem for Zverev. Reaching the final felt like...
The reality of Stefanos Tsitsipas’s tennis existence is complicated after Shanghai. On one hand, Tsitsipas very clearly grew in stature by defeating defending champion Novak Djokovic...
The story on Daniil Medvedev after the Shanghai Masters is very similar to the one he authored at the U.S. Open. Very simply, Medvedev continues to...
For many tennis fans and commentators, life slows down in mid-September after the U.S. Open. For the second straight year, Alexander Zverev has gained new inspiration...
Thursday at the Shanghai Masters provided multiple matches in which top-10 players mastered small margins. Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated Hubert Hurkacz in a 50-50 match which went...
Matteo Berrettini continues to open eyes in Shanghai. We have seen the following story many times: A young tennis player reaches a new milestone in the...
When Stefanos Tsitsipas looked at the autumnal portion of his 2019 season, he didn’t have “beat Felix Auger-Aliassime” on his checklist, if only because tennis is...
Aryna Sabalenka in Wuhan. Naomi Osaka in Osaka and Beijing. Dominic Thiem in Beijing. John Millman in Tokyo. Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev in Beijing. The...
Call Dominic Thiem “McAfee” or “Norton,” because his antivirus program apparently does work. He just needed time to make it fully operational. Thiem came back from...
