So, Nishikori is not playing Hopman Cup for Japan, a shame it would have been a good preparation ahead of the Australian Open. He has not played on the tour since August and will be quite rusty I believe, but he also has big support in Melbourne, I hope he'll go far this year.
Lot of good players struggling right now because of injuries , won't really blame Nishikori for not participating in Hopman Cup because his focus must be only on Australian Open . Hope Djokovic won't drop out because of elbow injury.
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So, Nishikori is not playing Hopman Cup for Japan, a shame it would have been a good preparation ahead of the Australian Open. He has not played on the tour since August and will be quite rusty I believe, but he also has big support in Melbourne, I hope he'll go far this year.
Lot of good players struggling right now because of injuries , won't really blame Nishikori for not participating in Hopman Cup because his focus must be only on Australian Open . Hope Djokovic won't drop out because of elbow injury.So, Nishikori is not playing Hopman Cup for Japan, a shame it would have been a good preparation ahead of the Australian Open. He has not played on the tour since August and will be quite rusty I believe, but he also has big support in Melbourne, I hope he'll go far this year.
Lot of good players struggling right now because of injuries , won't really blame Nishikori for not participating in Hopman Cup because his focus must be only on Australian Open . Hope Djokovic won't drop out because of elbow injury. 
So, Nishikori is not playing Hopman Cup for Japan, a shame it would have been a good preparation ahead of the Australian Open. He has not played on the tour since August and will be quite rusty I believe, but he also has big support in Melbourne, I hope he'll go far this year.
Hopman Cup 2018 , Vandeweghe v Pavlyuchenkova , the former leads 3-1 right now and looks strong but Pavlyuchenkova isn't a weak opponent she has got a good game too so I am gonna go for over 16.5 games @ 1.7 .
I watched the mixed doubles between Switzerland and Japan and the Japanese even though they lost the game made it very entertaining, they won the first set by 4-2 whiles Federer and Bencic won the second set by 4-1 and though I didn't watch the last set in read that they won by 3-0 .
Perfect day for Swiss on the first day of Hopman Cup 2018 . Hard luck for Japan but they played well too , lets hope the 2nd day is as much fun as 1st day. Hopman Cup 2018 , Vandeweghe v Pavlyuchenkova , the former leads 3-1 right now and looks strong but Pavlyuchenkova isn't a weak opponent she has got a good game too so I am gonna go for over 16.5 games @ 1.7 .
I watched the mixed doubles between Switzerland and Japan and the Japanese even though they lost the game made it very entertaining, they won the first set by 4-2 whiles Federer and Bencic won the second set by 4-1 and though I didn't watch the last set in read that they won by 3-0 . the Australian Open are close and Federer seems the favorite especially for the physical conditions of his strongest opponents:
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic, Nishikori and Wawrinka are in bad shape and maybe some of them will not participate.
A.zverev is not yet ready to win a slam tournament.
So Federer ,I think, he can win again this year and get closer to the first place in the atp ranking.
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic, Nishikori and Wawrinka are in bad shape and maybe some of them will not participate.
A.zverev is not yet ready to win a slam tournament.
So Federer ,I think, he can win again this year and get closer to the first place in the atp ranking.
Yes I'm really looking forward to the Australian Open, finally we have tennis back in Australia. Federer is strong favorite as most of his rivals have injury concerns or have not played for some time. Its most likely that Federer will win for the second year in a row but I would like to see Nick Kyrgios maybe challenge for the title as he now has a coach and he seems to be much better mentally now then previous years. So I hope he can go all the way.
He wasn't exactly in good health as he asked for a medical timeout and then after that dominated the match but that is to be expected when a competitor such as himself gets that far into a competition such as this one.
Alot of those top players are missing this time around due to injury so I would go with Federer to win it again this AO tournament.
Hopman Cup 2018 , Vandeweghe v Pavlyuchenkova , the former leads 3-1 right now and looks strong but Pavlyuchenkova isn't a weak opponent she has got a good game too so I am gonna go for over 16.5 games @ 1.7 .
the Australian Open are close and Federer seems the favorite especially for the physical conditions of his strongest opponents:
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic, Nishikori and Wawrinka are in bad shape and maybe some of them will not participate.
A.zverev is not yet ready to win a slam tournament.
So Federer ,I think, he can win again this year and get closer to the first place in the atp ranking.
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic, Nishikori and Wawrinka are in bad shape and maybe some of them will not participate.
A.zverev is not yet ready to win a slam tournament.
So Federer ,I think, he can win again this year and get closer to the first place in the atp ranking.
Yes I'm really looking forward to the Australian Open, finally we have tennis back in Australia. Federer is strong favorite as most of his rivals have injury concerns or have not played for some time. Its most likely that Federer will win for the second year in a row but I would like to see Nick Kyrgios maybe challenge for the title as he now has a coach and he seems to be much better mentally now then previous years. So I hope he can go all the way.
I am absolutely convinced that this year there will be many surprises at the Australian Open!
Kyrgios, for example, could take advantage of his opponents' bad shape conditions and finally show everyone his talent.
the Australian Open are close and Federer seems the favorite especially for the physical conditions of his strongest opponents:
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic, Nishikori and Wawrinka are in bad shape and maybe some of them will not participate.
A.zverev is not yet ready to win a slam tournament.
So Federer ,I think, he can win again this year and get closer to the first place in the atp ranking.
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic, Nishikori and Wawrinka are in bad shape and maybe some of them will not participate.
A.zverev is not yet ready to win a slam tournament.
So Federer ,I think, he can win again this year and get closer to the first place in the atp ranking.
Yes I'm really looking forward to the Australian Open, finally we have tennis back in Australia. Federer is strong favorite as most of his rivals have injury concerns or have not played for some time. Its most likely that Federer will win for the second year in a row but I would like to see Nick Kyrgios maybe challenge for the title as he now has a coach and he seems to be much better mentally now then previous years. So I hope he can go all the way.
the Australian Open are close and Federer seems the favorite especially for the physical conditions of his strongest opponents:
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic, Nishikori and Wawrinka are in bad shape and maybe some of them will not participate.
A.zverev is not yet ready to win a slam tournament.
So Federer ,I think, he can win again this year and get closer to the first place in the atp ranking.
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic, Nishikori and Wawrinka are in bad shape and maybe some of them will not participate.
A.zverev is not yet ready to win a slam tournament.
So Federer ,I think, he can win again this year and get closer to the first place in the atp ranking.
About Rafael Nadal, they say his serve is the only shot where you can see he was born as a right handed but learned to play with his left hand.
As for Ivo Karlovic, quite simply he would ranked outside the top 500 with a "normal" serve
As for Ivo Karlovic, quite simply he would ranked outside the top 500 with a "normal" serve
Karlovic is really an atypical player in Tennis!
he is the tallest player in history with his 211cm.
His best weapon (perhaps the only one) is surely: make aces.
he holds the aces record in 1 match (2 sets of 3): 45
in the davis cup he made 78 aces against Stepanek in 2009
until 2012 it had the fastest ace record: 251km / h
Obviously every set ends often with a tie-break!
Karlovic is also the least serves broken player on the tour. His serve win percentage is the highest amongst all the ATP players.
Here are some new rules for the coming years:
-Shot Clock: between 2 points, the time will be increased by 5 seconds(from 20 to 25), but its application will be rigorous with an electronic shot-clock.
-Warm up: warm up time strictly enforced. The match will start in about 7 minutes
-withdrawals before 1st round match receive 50% prize money. The other 50% will go to the Lucky Loser
Who will play but will retire can be sanctioned by losing all the prizepool
-Another change of rule in 2019 in major tournaments, with the number of seeds limited to 16 instead of the current 32!
Oh wow! only 16 seeds. thats gonna be interesting. A lot more potential upsets possibilities then. Lets see how it pans out during Australian Open. Cant wait -Shot Clock: between 2 points, the time will be increased by 5 seconds(from 20 to 25), but its application will be rigorous with an electronic shot-clock.
-Warm up: warm up time strictly enforced. The match will start in about 7 minutes
-withdrawals before 1st round match receive 50% prize money. The other 50% will go to the Lucky Loser
Who will play but will retire can be sanctioned by losing all the prizepool
-Another change of rule in 2019 in major tournaments, with the number of seeds limited to 16 instead of the current 32!
About Rafael Nadal, they say his serve is the only shot where you can see he was born as a right handed but learned to play with his left hand.
As for Ivo Karlovic, quite simply he would ranked outside the top 500 with a "normal" serve
As for Ivo Karlovic, quite simply he would ranked outside the top 500 with a "normal" serve
Karlovic is really an atypical player in Tennis!
he is the tallest player in history with his 211cm.
His best weapon (perhaps the only one) is surely: make aces.
he holds the aces record in 1 match (2 sets of 3): 45
in the davis cup he made 78 aces against Stepanek in 2009
until 2012 it had the fastest ace record: 251km / h
Obviously every set ends often with a tie-break!
About Rafael Nadal, they say his serve is the only shot where you can see he was born as a right handed but learned to play with his left hand.
As for Ivo Karlovic, quite simply he would ranked outside the top 500 with a "normal" serve
As for Ivo Karlovic, quite simply he would ranked outside the top 500 with a "normal" serve
here are the 10 players who have done more aces in 2017:
Isner: 1123 in 57 matches (average for match 19,7)
Quarrey: 742 in 55 matches (13,5)
Anderson: 738 in 55 matches (13,4)
Muller: 735 in 50 matches (14,7)
Karlovic: 730 in 35 matches (20,9)
Cilic: 724 in 64 matches (11,3)
A.Zverev: 611 in 75 matches (8,1)
Raonic: 566 in 41 matches (13,8)
Dimitrov: 563 in 68 matches (8,3)
Federer: 550 in 57 matches (9,6)
Incredibles Karlovic and Isner with about 20 aces per match!
Karlovic is also the player who made the most aces in history (12302 aces in 630 matches).
only 2 other players made more than 10,000 aces: Federer 10264 and Goran Ivanisevic 10131.
the next will surely be Isner (currently 9724 aces)
Isner: 1123 in 57 matches (average for match 19,7)
Quarrey: 742 in 55 matches (13,5)
Anderson: 738 in 55 matches (13,4)
Muller: 735 in 50 matches (14,7)
Karlovic: 730 in 35 matches (20,9)
Cilic: 724 in 64 matches (11,3)
A.Zverev: 611 in 75 matches (8,1)
Raonic: 566 in 41 matches (13,8)
Dimitrov: 563 in 68 matches (8,3)
Federer: 550 in 57 matches (9,6)
Incredibles Karlovic and Isner with about 20 aces per match!
Karlovic is also the player who made the most aces in history (12302 aces in 630 matches).
only 2 other players made more than 10,000 aces: Federer 10264 and Goran Ivanisevic 10131.
the next will surely be Isner (currently 9724 aces)
The strongest weapon Karlovic has is his serve, for the rest he is rather "limited". But 21 aces/match average is simply incredible! The rest of the players (except for Isner) are far away in these stats. What was Nadal his average btw?
Nadal this year made 286 aces in 78 matches with an average of 3,7 aces for match.
In his career he made "only" 3056 aces in 1035 matches with an average of almost 3 aces for match.
A very low average for a winning player like him!
Wow that's an interesting statistic, I didn't expect such a low average for Nadal! If you compare that to Federer he is miles away
. here are the 10 players who have done more aces in 2017:
Isner: 1123 in 57 matches (average for match 19,7)
Quarrey: 742 in 55 matches (13,5)
Anderson: 738 in 55 matches (13,4)
Muller: 735 in 50 matches (14,7)
Karlovic: 730 in 35 matches (20,9)
Cilic: 724 in 64 matches (11,3)
A.Zverev: 611 in 75 matches (8,1)
Raonic: 566 in 41 matches (13,8)
Dimitrov: 563 in 68 matches (8,3)
Federer: 550 in 57 matches (9,6)
Incredibles Karlovic and Isner with about 20 aces per match!
Karlovic is also the player who made the most aces in history (12302 aces in 630 matches).
only 2 other players made more than 10,000 aces: Federer 10264 and Goran Ivanisevic 10131.
the next will surely be Isner (currently 9724 aces)
Isner: 1123 in 57 matches (average for match 19,7)
Quarrey: 742 in 55 matches (13,5)
Anderson: 738 in 55 matches (13,4)
Muller: 735 in 50 matches (14,7)
Karlovic: 730 in 35 matches (20,9)
Cilic: 724 in 64 matches (11,3)
A.Zverev: 611 in 75 matches (8,1)
Raonic: 566 in 41 matches (13,8)
Dimitrov: 563 in 68 matches (8,3)
Federer: 550 in 57 matches (9,6)
Incredibles Karlovic and Isner with about 20 aces per match!
Karlovic is also the player who made the most aces in history (12302 aces in 630 matches).
only 2 other players made more than 10,000 aces: Federer 10264 and Goran Ivanisevic 10131.
the next will surely be Isner (currently 9724 aces)
The strongest weapon Karlovic has is his serve, for the rest he is rather "limited". But 21 aces/match average is simply incredible! The rest of the players (except for Isner) are far away in these stats. What was Nadal his average btw?
Nadal this year made 286 aces in 78 matches with an average of 3,7 aces for match.
In his career he made "only" 3056 aces in 1035 matches with an average of almost 3 aces for match.
A very low average for a winning player like him!
here are the 10 players who have done more aces in 2017:
Isner: 1123 in 57 matches (average for match 19,7)
Quarrey: 742 in 55 matches (13,5)
Anderson: 738 in 55 matches (13,4)
Muller: 735 in 50 matches (14,7)
Karlovic: 730 in 35 matches (20,9)
Cilic: 724 in 64 matches (11,3)
A.Zverev: 611 in 75 matches (8,1)
Raonic: 566 in 41 matches (13,8)
Dimitrov: 563 in 68 matches (8,3)
Federer: 550 in 57 matches (9,6)
Incredibles Karlovic and Isner with about 20 aces per match!
Karlovic is also the player who made the most aces in history (12302 aces in 630 matches).
only 2 other players made more than 10,000 aces: Federer 10264 and Goran Ivanisevic 10131.
the next will surely be Isner (currently 9724 aces)
Isner: 1123 in 57 matches (average for match 19,7)
Quarrey: 742 in 55 matches (13,5)
Anderson: 738 in 55 matches (13,4)
Muller: 735 in 50 matches (14,7)
Karlovic: 730 in 35 matches (20,9)
Cilic: 724 in 64 matches (11,3)
A.Zverev: 611 in 75 matches (8,1)
Raonic: 566 in 41 matches (13,8)
Dimitrov: 563 in 68 matches (8,3)
Federer: 550 in 57 matches (9,6)
Incredibles Karlovic and Isner with about 20 aces per match!
Karlovic is also the player who made the most aces in history (12302 aces in 630 matches).
only 2 other players made more than 10,000 aces: Federer 10264 and Goran Ivanisevic 10131.
the next will surely be Isner (currently 9724 aces)
The strongest weapon Karlovic has is his serve, for the rest he is rather "limited". But 21 aces/match average is simply incredible! The rest of the players (except for Isner) are far away in these stats. What was Nadal his average btw?
here are the 10 players who have done more aces in 2017:
Isner: 1123 in 57 matches (average for match 19,7)
Quarrey: 742 in 55 matches (13,5)
Anderson: 738 in 55 matches (13,4)
Muller: 735 in 50 matches (14,7)
Karlovic: 730 in 35 matches (20,9)
Cilic: 724 in 64 matches (11,3)
A.Zverev: 611 in 75 matches (8,1)
Raonic: 566 in 41 matches (13,8)
Dimitrov: 563 in 68 matches (8,3)
Federer: 550 in 57 matches (9,6)
Incredibles Karlovic and Isner with about 20 aces per match!
Karlovic is also the player who made the most aces in history (12302 aces in 630 matches).
only 2 other players made more than 10,000 aces: Federer 10264 and Goran Ivanisevic 10131.
the next will surely be Isner (currently 9724 aces)
Isner: 1123 in 57 matches (average for match 19,7)
Quarrey: 742 in 55 matches (13,5)
Anderson: 738 in 55 matches (13,4)
Muller: 735 in 50 matches (14,7)
Karlovic: 730 in 35 matches (20,9)
Cilic: 724 in 64 matches (11,3)
A.Zverev: 611 in 75 matches (8,1)
Raonic: 566 in 41 matches (13,8)
Dimitrov: 563 in 68 matches (8,3)
Federer: 550 in 57 matches (9,6)
Incredibles Karlovic and Isner with about 20 aces per match!
Karlovic is also the player who made the most aces in history (12302 aces in 630 matches).
only 2 other players made more than 10,000 aces: Federer 10264 and Goran Ivanisevic 10131.
the next will surely be Isner (currently 9724 aces)
here are the 10 players who have climbed more positions in the ATP rankings in 2017:
1. Filip Krajinovic: 234th - 34th +200
2. Andrey Rublev: 156th - 39th +117
3. Kevin Anderson: 67th - 14th +53
4. Aljaz Bedene: 101th - 49th +52
5. Damir Dzhumhur: 77th - 30th +47
6. Ryan Harrison: 90th - 47th +43
7. Adrian Mannarino: 60th - 28th +32
8. J.Martín Del Potro: 38th - 11th +27
9. Diego Schwartzman: 52th- 26th +26
10. Alexander Zverev: 24th - 4th +20
Krajinovic (25 years old) and Rublev(20 years old) are surely the players who have achieved the most important improvements.
What about Shapovalov ? He is 51st currently but not sure how much he has moved , where did you get this stats from btw? Great move by Rublev actually because he is just 20 years old , amazing.1. Filip Krajinovic: 234th - 34th +200
2. Andrey Rublev: 156th - 39th +117
3. Kevin Anderson: 67th - 14th +53
4. Aljaz Bedene: 101th - 49th +52
5. Damir Dzhumhur: 77th - 30th +47
6. Ryan Harrison: 90th - 47th +43
7. Adrian Mannarino: 60th - 28th +32
8. J.Martín Del Potro: 38th - 11th +27
9. Diego Schwartzman: 52th- 26th +26
10. Alexander Zverev: 24th - 4th +20
Krajinovic (25 years old) and Rublev(20 years old) are surely the players who have achieved the most important improvements.
I have considered only the players currently in the top 50!
Shapovalov currently 51st has improved by 200 positions.
Other players, in the top 100 who have improved significantly are:
Tsitsipas +1120 (currently 91th)
Ebden +620 (76th)
Stebe +320 (82th)
Gojowzyk +130 (60th)
Kavcic. +120 (97th)
- Tsitsipas is a bih talent and I think that he will be a surprise at ATP tour next season.
Krajinović made huge progress this year, specially in the second part of the year when he climbed 200+ position to 33th.
I can't wait season to start to see how his performance will be, and to see Đoković back on court.
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