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No he won against Berrettini in Wimbledon in 2021 and he also won the Australian Open and the French Open, but did lose against Medvedev at the US Open. So in total that was three GS titles in 2021. He also won three in 2011 and in 2015 and now I think it is very possible that he will take him all four GS titles. He won on clay now and he doesn't have any weaknesses in the sense that he is "bad" on any surface. Grass is his strongest surface and if he doesn't get an injury I can't think of anyone to stoP him unless he has a very bad day and that doesn't happen very often. On hard court his win rate is about as good as on grass and I am getting the feeling that he will keep adding titles for a while now. Alcaraz said he was injured at the French Open but he is playing again already. I think that he was puzzled by the strength of Djokovic because even when he won the 2nd set it was insane how he had to play to even win that set. It is humanly not possible to keep such a performance for five sets usually. Even when he hit every ball perfectly he was far from winning the point.

as it looks now, this season look as better chance for Djokovic to win all GS's than in 2021, when he lost final to Medvedev at US Open
and on Wimbledon, looking at form and participants, he is a main favorite, really can't see who can win over him in London

maybe there will be a surprise, but doesn't look were likely to be honest, it is just that he will probably not play any tournament on grass before Wimbledon, but he is experienced enough not to lose in first few rounds, no matter opponent

Exactly, let's not forget Nole is 36yo and at that age anything can happen during the 2 weeks of GS. I guess he has some special training schedule before and during the Slams so he doesn't get injured but anyway. The risk at this age is too high - one awkward move and you pull a muscle and bye Wimbledon title. I'm not saying it can't happen to anyone else but the age is just amplifying this issue. Let's wait and see how it goes, we also need to know the draw.

So is Berrettini still recovering from injury, os is just not fit or is he massively distracted
with . . . other things?

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over at Queens - Murray will be playing de Minaur today, thats a tough draw for him but
I think the markets really dont know, the odds are even really, 1.86 to 1.88... I think I will
make a bet on Murray, he is playing in good form ATM.

Tiafoe also plays today in an easy enough draw against Van de Zandschulp, he
should win this one at 1.45.

Actually what is more appropriate is to withdraw rather than retire, the reason is always injured and by withdrawing from the tournament where last year he was the champion will make his ranking even worse, it is quite unfortunate because if he is fit he can become one of the strong challengers in the Wimbledon tournament later, unfortunately after his best career at the Wimbledon final two years ago, he often withdrew from tournaments due to injury.

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ATP Halle, the first and second seeds advanced to the next round but unlike Medvedev who was able to finish the match by only going through two sets, Tsitsipas had to work hard to win because lost in the first set from Barrère, while Alcaraz at ATP Queens will have his first match today and facing Fils seemed like it was no obstacle for him.

I think that it is already perfectly clear to everyone that Andy Murray's best days as a tennis player are already over, and if, with a successful combination of circumstances, you can still talk about winning a tournament, but you can forget about winning a singles tournament. However, there are other categories;))

Struff to play against the Russian player Roman Safiullin. Here Struff have got the higher winning chance. We will see close fights from the round of 16 as the young strong contenders will get slotted against each other. Though the match is a lose against Tiafoe, he could've got some boosting for the upcoming tournament. In that manner I'm expecting better performance from Struff. Lets see what happens?

Yes, Struff played really great. He started well and Tiafoe was a bit better in the decisive moments. Otherwise he would have won his first ATP tournament. So far he has tried it 200 times. But if he keeps playing like this he will win his first tournament this year. I am curious to see how he will perform in Halle.

my bets:

Daniil Medvedev - Marcos Giron

Daniil Medvedev, who currently occupies position number 3 in the ATP ranking and who in the past has already occupied position number 1 in the ATP ranking, has been doing a good campaign in recent months, on the other side we have Marcos Giron who currently occupies position number 57 of the ATP ranking, but last year he managed to reach his best career position which was reaching position number 49 in the ATP ranking. well, the difference between these two athletes is very big, so I bet on Daniil Medvedev's victory

Alexander Zverev - Dominic Thiem

Alexander Zverev who currently occupies the position number 23 of the ATP ranking, but he in the past he managed to reach a better position than this current position, he had a serious injury 1 year ago while on the other side we have Dominic Thiem who currently occupies the position number 89 in the ATP ranking but he was in a better position 3 years ago, he comes to this tournament looking to conquer a good position and he also had a serious injury in the past, in my opinion Zverev will win in this game

Andrey Rublev - Yibing Wu

Andrey Rublev who currently occupies position number 7 in the ATP ranking but who has already reached position number 5 in 2021, he won the ATP Monte Carlo in a final against Holger Rune, meanwhile on the other side we have Yibing Wu who currently occupies the position number 64 in the ATP ranking, but which has already managed to reach the position of number 54 in the world. anyway, for me the winner of this game will be Andrey Rublev

You are right, I made a mistake while writing my post - finalisti and not winner (and at least for Italians he has won Wimbledon ).

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Of course Djokovic Is absolutely a favorite in this tournament but I will always take a look in younger player or some outsider. I Will not surprised if there Is a surprise this year but lets see, It would for sure a great show as usually

He never even won any Grand Slam (and most likely never will).

Djokovic' on-grass win rate is at 85.83% and then from the active players who are going to play Wimbledon the next one is Bautista Agut with 69.59%. After that come Gasquet and Kyrgios and considering how strong Djokovic is right now, he is well set to increase his GS title count further this year. I guess only some kind of black out could stop him.

I know right? Those are the argument which some people who does not have any idea about things generally make too sure that they know stuff. Even if they necessarily don’t. It is even though he was really in an unfavourable position, he was still victorious by defying the odds. I was actually surprised to even see that he has a fitness event at this late stage of his career.


Yes, he did not win. I am not very much into this, but I also don’t know the specific reason for him to retire. I was googling about him and it was actually a little surprising that he decided to retire at 27. I know that he had suffered a lot of injuries. Can anyone tell me how severe was the date problem of his injuries that he had to retire so early?

I am glad for Murray he won but I don't think he has any chance to win Wimbledon; he can win a couple of matches but that will be it. Yes, he has 10 victories on a row on grass, but against unknown and low ranked players. I just checked and the highest ranked player was nr 69... We will see in the Queen's tournament what he can achieve as also more top50 players are playing there.

He never won Wimbledon - he lost in the final against Đoković.

berrettini retired from Queen's Club Championship! The former winner of Wimbledon has not been able to play this tournament.
Bad news for him and all supporters. It seems the player has hit a loong streak of defeat and retirements.
Now he is at 34 place in ATP (last place was 21th). I think this an interesting data for all gamblers.
First of all, he is now in bad shape so it's could be interested bet against him.
Secondly, when he will come back to play as usual, this can be a bargain chance...
But... we don't know "when"... so let's wait.
Interesting fact (like we have seen with Tsitsi)... he starts to play bad after he has get officially linked to "Melissa Satta" a famous italian starlet.

Yes great win by Andy and he got it done in 2 sets as well.

If you aren sure how it happened, Andy has found some tournaments which align
with his level of tennis and capabilities and thats Challenger level. I think
he said somewhere very recently that all he wants is to win tournaments and has
realised that its not going to happen on the ATP circuit.

Some people are talking him up a bit for Wimbledon because he has won bact to
back Challenger titles but he need favourable draws to get through the rounds.

Prior to the finals, both have met in two matches. Each have won a match, and this made winning prediction hard. Somehow based on the player statistics Struff had an upper hand against Tiafoe. Finally Tiafoe made it in style with two deciding set wins. Missed the first set 4-6 and fought back to win the other two sets 7⁷-6¹ 7¹⁰-6⁸. With this he had recorded his third ATP Singles title and first grass court title.

It was a tournament challenger so how could he possibly face Alcaraz, and even if he faced the young tennis player there would still be opportunities especially on grass which is not the favorite of the Spanish player, and what Murray got was a way for him to get back fit, at Wimbledon later he still has a chance because he is pretty good on grass, his only real enemy is when injuries come back to him which can ruin all his struggles.

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Struff lost to Tiafoe but it was a very close match, this will be Struff's first ATP title if he can beat his opponent, he played pretty well only his opponent played even more solidly despite the pressure from the crowd that was on the German's side.

Much expected win. This have helped him move few ranks high on the world tennis rank list. Young players are dominating the court and it is really hard for him to win more matches. However his thoughts and staying positive at this age with much of injuries and recovery breaks shows his love to tennis. A good win and congratulations. I'm not sure how it happened, but it was said that the kids of Andy Murray have come to the match to give him a father's day support and wishing him the same. Really great!!!

It seems that the Greek track has found the connection with the world top after all. He has beaten very good players more than once this year. Van Rijthoven was unable to defend his title in Den Bosch this year, but it looks like things just went in the right direction for him last season. Greek track seems to be someone who is ready to attack the world top. It was a nice final with 2 players who can serve very well on grass. And now we go to Wimbledon, where the holes can be served back into the court.