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December 29, 2017, 10:46:33 PM
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.

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 remember watching it last year and it was a toss up between Federer and Nadal. But after him winning it the way he did last time it showed what kind of competitor he really is and no body can beat him when he is healthy and in his top form when in the finals.
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.
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December 29, 2017, 09:25:08 PM
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 .
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December 29, 2017, 07:01:34 PM
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.

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.
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December 29, 2017, 06:11:23 PM
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.

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.
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December 29, 2017, 05:40:54 PM
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.
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December 21, 2017, 04:30:34 PM
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  Wink

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.
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December 21, 2017, 04:28:59 PM
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 Smiley
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December 21, 2017, 01:31:19 PM
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  Wink

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!

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December 20, 2017, 01:34:38 AM
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  Wink
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December 19, 2017, 05:30:04 PM
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)



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  Smiley.
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December 19, 2017, 03:27:33 PM
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)



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!
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December 18, 2017, 02:03:04 PM
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)



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?
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December 18, 2017, 12:35:37 PM
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)


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December 15, 2017, 10:24:54 AM
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.

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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December 14, 2017, 09:22:37 PM
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.

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.
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December 14, 2017, 09:07:22 PM
Nice to see a tennis thread here.  Wink
Lol at AO organizers ignoring Djokovic in their video teaser. This is going to be the year of Serb, IMO. Hope he can thrash the spanish pusher as far as at Melbourne
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December 14, 2017, 11:52:12 AM
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.

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)
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December 14, 2017, 11:19:27 AM
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.
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December 14, 2017, 09:00:02 AM
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.
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December 04, 2017, 01:17:03 PM
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!
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