Nick Lester
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Broadcaster and Commentator predominately in tennis ATP Media, Eurosport, BBC, USTA, Tennis Australia, ITF and Sky Sports
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Medvedev to Eurosport "It's just a little disappointing when they are making so much noise between 1st and 2nd serve, I guess some people just have a low I.Q"
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30 minutes after losing the final in Rome Stefanos Tsitsipas is out on the Pietrangeli court practising his serve.
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Fewest times Novak Djokovic has been broken in his 23 major title runs.
2023 Australian Open - 6
2015 Wimbledon - 6
2021 Wimbledon - 7
2018 US Open - 7
2013 and 2019 Australian Open - 8
Wimbledon 2023 so far just 3.
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Percentage of Serve and Volley points played in the men's draw
@Wimbledon
in last 20 years.
2001 37%
02 33%
03 25%
04 22%
05 19%
06 14%
07 12%
08 10%
09 10%
10 8%
11 6%
12 6%
13 8%
14 8%
15 9%
16 8%
17 7%
18 7%
19 5%
21 4% (so far)
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Great line from Medvedev's press conference last night
"Not every player is capable of playing the way Korda does, so that's beautiful.. If I do it, I would be ranked 700 in the world, so yeah.."
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Average groundstroke topspin speed for women’s and men’s finals,collectively numbers almost identical.
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The Top 10 on February 2nd 2004, the date Federer first held the number 1 ranking
1 Federer
2 Ferrero
3 Roddick
4 Coria
5 Agassi
6 Schuettler
7 Moya
8 Nalbandian
9 Philippoussis
10 Srichaphan
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Nadal's major QF record by event.
Roland Garros 14-1
Wimbledon 7-0
US Open 8-1
Australian Open 6-7
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Great story in the mixed with Harri Heliovarra and Anna Dalinina who had never met or spoken before, signed up together at the desk just before the deadline and go on to win the title.
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Tears flowing for Julien Benneteau, retired after the US Open, got a call from Yannick Noah 3 days after his return from NY, teams up with Mahut and proves to be the best player on the court to win in straight sets and lead France into the final.
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For those interested here are the official court speeds (via Hawkeye’s CPI) of all 9 masters main show courts in 2017.
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Novak Djokovic out warming up with leftie doubles world number 1 Mate Pavic on court 9 for those currently at Wimbledon.
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Rankings move made by a selection of young guys on
@ATPWorldTour
since start of 2018.
Tsitsipas 91-15
Medvedev 84-22
Coric 48-19
Chung 58-23
Shapovalov 51-29
Di Manaur 208-33
Tiafoe 79-40
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Khachanov today joined an elite group of Murray,Federer,Nadal and Wawrinka as the only players to have beaten Djokovic in a hard court final in the past 10 years.
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Ferrer talking to
@ATPTennisRadio
on playing in an era of the big 4 “ I wasn’t unlucky, I was a better player because of them”
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Roger Federer lending a helping hand to the drying process inside the Hard Rock this morning.
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Roger Federer's best seasons in terms of win/loss %
2005 95%
2006 94.8%
2004 92.5%
2017 92.4% (post Basel)
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Nadal on court "Its impossible to have a long career unless you have a passion and love for what you do"
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Cam Norrie now up to 34 in the live rankings and with Nadal, Goffin and Wawrinka out is guaranteed to be seeded at Wimbledon.
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Another extraordinary layer to the Aslan Karatsev story this year
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Sensible decision by the USTA to let all fans into the front section for the men’s doubles final.
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Been great sharing a booth with Nick in the this week in Melbourne , he’s enthused, brings a lot of insight and unsurprisingly hasn’t been afraid to tell it how it is.
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A side note to Nadal’s extraordinary efforts in Madrid, the Spaniard didn’t lose serve all week in either Singles or doubles.
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Gael Monfils after winning Rotterdam “it’s the 2nd tournament I can put my name next to Arthur Ashe which is very special”
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Worth remembering Andrey Rublev forget to enter qualifying this week,had planned to come here for practise but got in as alternate in Qualies.
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Matteo Berrettini's 2670 points is the lowest to finish 8th in the year round race since the tour finals moved to London.
8th finisher points year by year.
2018 3895
2017 2975
2016 3300
2015 4035
2014 4400
2013 3300
2012 3490
2011 2965
2010 3665
2009 3300
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“He hit an underarm serve and it was the best thing I’ve ever seen” young fan walking out of the grounds
@Wimbledon
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71332 people made their way to the
@usopen
yesterday, the 2nd highest single day attendance ever.
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With the win today Rafa Nadal's record over 5 sets on clay improves to an extroadinary 104-2.
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At 37 years and 8 months Ivo Karlovic will finish the year inside the top 20 of the ATP rankings for the 1st time in his career, some effort
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A very honest Filip Krajinovic after making the final at Queens “to be honest I don’t like to play on grass, every year I find a way of skipping the tournaments”
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For those interested here is the court pace index at masters 1000 level, this is an average of the main show court at each event.
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Nadal warming up this morning ahead of potentially meeting number 39 with Federer,decision on fitness being made post practise.
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Roger Federer pulls out of Cincy with back problem, Rafa Nadal guaranteed to return to world number 1 on Monday.
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Nadal's level last night from ball one was frightening,one challenge of playing him neatly summarised here by his opponent.
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The things you don’t always see, 7pm, no one around but Sascha Zverev out working hard to get better.
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Been fortunate to work at the last 5 Davis Cup finals, by a considerable distance it remains the best atmosphere and occasion in the sport.
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Novak Djokovic has played 70 majors, he's now made the final in just short of 50% of them.
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Novak Djokovic's
@ATPWorldTour
record on Asian soil since the start of 2009 now sits at 56-4.
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Don't profess to be a font of knowledge on all sports but these two men must have a case at being the best all round athletes in the world.
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Roger Federer match wins at Majors after tonight's win.
Australian Open 85
Wimbledon 84
US Open 78
Roland Garros 65
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Nadal has now won 33 straight sets on clay, breaking his previous personal best of 32.
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Benoit Paire's extraordinary season,he's played 26 of 27 possible ATP weeks in 2019, has also played 2 challengers,1 German League weekend plus the last 7 weeks of doubles.
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Nick Kyrgios career record against players ranked 1 and 2 now stands at 6-4 👀
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Gael Monfils just hit a 1st serve that was clocked at 150mph on court 2.
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The length of the slide and mark Coric just made on the centre court in Bercy 😳
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Novak Djokovic has lost just 25 points all week on serve in 28 service games.
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Medvedev after losing the 1st set to Fokina in Madrid "I don't want to play on this surface"
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Cam Norrie reveals on
@primevideosport
that all his tennis shoes disappeared overnight from the locker room so he had to go and find a new pair this morning.
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Anyone that ever spent any time in the company of Giles Muller knows what a humble,classy and family man he is,very well deserved 1st title.
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Zverev Nadal today will be a first top 10 match up in
@DavisCup
since Murray and Nishikori played in Glasgow in the 1st round in 2016.
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Super happy to be back in Melbourne at the
@AustralianOpen
commentating for TA on the world feed for the next 2 weeks.
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Dominic Thiem travels 2800km from Halle to Antalya and lasts just 59 minutes,beaten by the world number 222 in straight sets.
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One of the most remarkable days of tennis I’ve ever seen.
Absolute legends 🙌🙌🙌
The moment Dan Evans &
@nealskupski
sealed our place in the
@DavisCup
Final 8⃣
#BackTheBrits
🇬🇧
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Look from up above as Andy Murray practises with Richard Gasquet in NY.
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That 7th game of the 2nd set between Nadal and Goffin is one the best I've ever witnessed in terms of quality, go watch it again.
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8 players collective head to head vs the field at World tour Finals in London.
Nadal 52-19
Federer 40-28
Thiem 16-16
Zverev 10-13
Goffin 15-20
Dimitrov 11-27
Cilic 9-25
Sock 7-14
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Gulbis broken to love in opening game on 18, taking umbrage at someone in crowd already,walks to the chair,opens bag,Jay Clarke walks over to same bag and says "thats my bag",comical start.
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Record breaking week in Halle, 116,200 people through the gates (including today's sell out) most ever in 25 year event history.
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January 1st - June 5th Novak Djokovic W/L 44-3
June 6 - October 30 Andy Murray W/L 42-3
Two remarkble runs.
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Andrey Rublev 48/62 at the net this week in Rotterdam,Russian's game evolving impressively.
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Nadal’s last 2 sets against the regarded 2nd best clay court player in the world 6-0 6-0.
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Murray comes back from break says to umpire "Verdasco is in locker with both coach and trainer, the referee and supervisor and just twiddling their thumbs"
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How well has Sebastian Korda played the big points in 2021 on
@atptour
Tour leader in Break Points Converted at 48% and after today's win in Parma will be Number 4 in Break Points Saved at 70%.
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Race to London as of Monday.
1 Nadal 7095
2 Federer 6545
3 Thiem 3390
4 Zverev 3210
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Final day in the box for one of the best
@usopen
ever, can’t think of too many majors in recent years with quite the excitement this past fortnight has produced.
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Two time Olympic Gold medalist Andy Murray back to work in Cincy with first practise session.
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Over and out from
@AustralianOpen
what a fun few weeks down under as always, Melbourne the best place to be every January.
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Spare a thought for Dennis Istomin,playing in the final of the Asian games in Palembang,Indonesia on Saturday,scheduled to play 1st round match on Monday on court 12
@usopen
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For 13 years and 8 months one of either Federer or Nadal have occupied a spot in the ATP top 5 but tomorrow that comes to an end.
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Nadal's 100 finals spans 12 years and 3 months,breakdown in numbers.
Majors 20
Masters 42
Outdoor 93
Indoor 7
Clay 56
Hard 37
Grass 7
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The US open are trialling a video review for the purposes of a potential default this year,the referee/supervisor has the option to look at the incident on a tablet and decide whether a default is the correct course of action.
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In 7 career meetings with Andy Murray, John Isner has had 34 break points, he's converted just 1.
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At age 39 Ivo Karlovic makes the last 4 in Houston and becomes the oldest ATP semi finalist since Jimmy Connors in 1993.
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Arguably as impressive as Benoit Paire’s win in Lyon is the fact that he’s now played every single week of the season, 18 events in total including challengers,contrary to perhaps the obvious the guy sure seems to enjoy life on tour.
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Having tested out the wrist Juan Martin Del Potro WILL play the 2nd semi final this evening in Shanghai.
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A gentle reminder Spain haven’t lost a
@DavisCup
home tie since 1999, Brazil and Gugu Kuerten the last team to leave with victory.
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Alex Zverev announces on court in Adelaide that he has pulled his hamstring during practise today and says he will rest and aim to be ready for Melbourne.
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Roger Federer has played 31 best of 3 set matches in 2017, the mean match length is just 82 mins.
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Novak Djokovic has won 33 of his last 34 matches
@MiamiOpen
in a period spanning 6 years, appreciate he's seemingly a long way off but his domination on Key Biscayne (and elsewhere) was incredible.
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Excellent piece on the ups and downs of my cousin's journey
@Neil38Etheridge
in the Guardian 👏
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Djokovic playing his 23rd major final today,in 18 of those he’s faced a top 5 player and in only 1 has he faced a non top 10er.
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What a story Constant Lestienne is in persistence, turned pro in 2013, over 600 career matches in the books, took 9 years to break top 150, 2 months later breaks the top 100, wins 1st ever ATP match in San D last week, heads to Tel Aviv gets 1st top 50 win and is in SF tonight.
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Sugita another example of a player coming good late on, spent 5 years ranked between 200-100, now top 50.
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Alize Cornet returns after the heat break with top on back to front,takes it off to change it on court and receives a code violation.
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Been privileged to travel with tennis for a few years,not sure I've seen a more impressive display than the 1 we saw this week from Federer.
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Reilly Opelka after going down a break in the 3rd to Bautista Agut in Doha "I'm going to lose money 2 weeks in a row"
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Nadal's % of return games won on clay going into
@rolandgarros
is 48% in 2018, Only 1 season has it ever been higher on clay, 2008 for a full season on clay it was at 51%.
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