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After a year out of the tennis calendar, the ATP Maharashtra Open in Pune is back for its 26th edition. Though the tournament’s field has suffered due to its new place in the calendar, many players usually relegated to the Challenger Tour will be able to show what they are capable of on the main […] READ MORE
The ATP San Diego Open probably has the most star-studded draw amongst ATP 250s this season. With so many top-20 players, the tournament promises to be an entertaining one, and the exciting tennis should continue on day two. As always, we here at LWOT are offering our predictions for every match on the schedule, including […] READ MORE
Two finals between the top two seeds were played out this week on the ATP Challenger Tour, which hadn’t happened before this season. One of them included a meeting of the two highest-ranked Dutchmen in the ATP Rankings. Who took it and how did the tournaments in Iasi, Amersfoort, Nur-Sultan, and Todi play out? Read […] READ MORE
Day 3 of the ATP Barcelona Open sees 11-time champion Rafael Nadal begin his campaign. After a shock defeat at the hands of Andrey Rublev in Monte Carlo, the Spaniard will come in to Barcelona determined to get back to his usual winning ways on clay. In this article I predict four of the matches […] READ MORE
We are predicting all of the matches on Day 1 of the ATP Barcelona Open. There are many story lines on Monday. Andrey Kuznetsov will be looking to record his first Tour-level victory this season, and will Benoit Paire be motivated to produce his best tennis? We also predict the rest of the Day 1 […] READ MORE
Following the conclusion of the ATP Miami Open, the attention of the tennis world turns to the European clay-court swing. The action on the terre battue is set to get underway in Cagliari at the ATP Sardinia Open and on day one there are four intriguing matches on the slate. But who will book their […] READ MORE
Day 1 of the ATP Miami Open will signal the first main draw play of a Masters 1000 event this season. It’s a 96-player draw, so we get a few days of players battling it out to face a seed in the Round of 64. Who will advance on Wednesday? We look at every match […] READ MORE
Compared to a total of 158 ATP Challenger Tour events that took place in 2019, organizing just 59 (and finishing 56) seems like a failure. But considering what happened this year, men’s tennis’ second-tier circuit did well to manage to give the lower-ranked players great opportunities to compete while doing well to avoid an extensive […] READ MORE
Although the focus of the tennis world was on Melbourne for the first week of the Australian Open, there was plenty of exciting action going on elsewhere. On the ATP’s Challenger Tour, the first indoor event of the season was played in Rennes, whilst Bangkok hosted its second tournament in as many weeks. Here’s a […] READ MORE