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No. 29 Hubert Hurkacz, +6 The Pole started the 2021 ATP Tour season in fine form by capturing his second ATP Tour trophy last week at the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com. He beat first-time finalist Sebastian Korda 6-3, 6-3 in the final and returns to the Top 30 of the FedEx ATP Rankings for the first time since the week beginning 24 August 2020. The 23-year-old Hurkacz is one spot off his career-high of No. 28, which he attained on 3 February 2020. Read More & Watch Delray Beach Fina...

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Eight hundred consecutive weeks. That’s how long Rafael Nadal has been living inside the Top 10 of the FedEx ATP Rankings. His run has spanned more than 15 years and counting: 5,600 days. 134,400 hours. The Mallorcan’s streak has already lasted longer than the Napoleonic Wars or World War I, World War II, and the American Civil War combined. By the time he’s done, look out Thirty Years’ War. Nadal broke Jimmy Connors’ mark of 789 consecutive weeks in the Top 10 in...

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Welcome to 2021. Following a thrilling finish to a wild and unpredictable 2020 campaign, a new season has dawned on the ATP Challenger Tour. While the initial stages might appear different than in years past, the battle to become the next breakout star remains the same. In a typical year, the stars of the Challenger circuit would be descending on tropical Noumea and sun-kissed Australia in January. But with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact the world, players are adjusting and adaptin...

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Fast starts fill the trophy cabinet. Novak Djokovic has won the Australian Open an unprecedented eight times from 16 attempts since he first competed at Melbourne Park in 2005. You can draw a straight line from his silverware to his speedy starts in opening sets. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of players who have won the highest percentage of games in the opening set at the Australian Open over the past 30 years finds Djokovic perched at the top of the tree. The data set in...

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Rafael Nadal and Roberto Bautista Agut invested huge amounts of intensity and commitment into every training session they shared in Mallorca before making their way to Australia. This level of dedication before they begin their season is a clear sign of their intentions: to reach fifth gear for the start of 2021. Both of them will be members of Team Spain at the ATP Cup, a competition in which they were on the verge of the title last year. Before stepping on the plane for the first event on t...

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Marcus Daniell hit a booming ace off the court this week — for charity. The Kiwi announced that starting in 2021, he will donate at least 10 per cent of his annual winnings to effective charity organisations for the rest of his life. “I take deep pleasure in knowing that every success I have in my working life will ultimately end up saving or changing lives,” Daniell said. Daniell on 30 November 2020 launched High Impact Athletes , an organisation whose purpose is t...

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There is no active player outside of the Big Four — Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray — who has a better winning percentage against the Top 10 players in the FedEx ATP Rankings than Daniil Medvedev. According to the Infosys ATP Performance Zone , the Big Four are in a league of their own against active players. Djokovic leads the way with a 68.3 winning percentage, with Nadal (64.7%) and Federer (64.6%) not far behind, and Murray at 55.1 per cent. But Med...

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