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Ben Shelton and Otto Virtanen were among the winners of the five ATP Challenger Tour events this past week, claiming titles and fulfilling the high expectations around them. Yu-Hsiou Hsu was a much more surprising maiden champion in Sydney. Meanwhile, Daniel Altmaier went back-to-back in South America, while Christopher O’Connell ended up winning in Yokohama. […] READ MORE
After a couple of second-round upsets with second seed Pablo Carreno Busta and home star Grigor Dimitrov out of the tournament, the quarterfinals are now set. Back-to-back champion and top seed Jannik Sinner remains the one to beat in Bulgaria’s capital. As always, we here at LWOT will preview every match. Who do you think […] READ MORE
With the home star Grigor Dimitrov out of the ATP Sofia tournament, it will be interesting to watch who the crowd gets behind as we will see the rest of the second round played out. As always, we here at LWOT will preview and predict every match. Who do you think will win? We also […] READ MORE
It should be an entertaining third day at the ATP Sofia Open with six intriguing matches on the slate in Bulgaria. As always, we here at LWOT will be offering our predictions for every match on the schedule, including Alexandar Lazarov vs Lorenzo Musetti. But who will advance? ATP Sofia Day 3 Predictions Lorenzo Sonego […] READ MORE
ATP Play kicks off Monday in Hamburg for another clay court summer tournament. There are plenty of strong names on display, as well as two teenage Germans getting the chance to play at Tour-level. Many clay courters will be fighting to gain as many points as possible before the tour fully shifts back to hard. […] READ MORE
Five ATP Challenger Tour events were organized during the second week of Wimbledon. By far the biggest story was Jan-Lennard Struff looking next to unbeatable in Braunschweig. Pedro Cachin managed to secure his top 100 debut by triumphing in Todi. Read back on this week’s action: Challenger Tour Weekly Recap Braunschweig Jan-Lennard Struff came into […] READ MORE
Braunschweig, Germany- Maximilian Marterer advanced to the final of the 2022 Brawo Open, defeating Zhizhen Zhang 6-3 5-7 7-6. The match had basically three very different phases: up until 6-3 4-4 for the German (Marterer looking like he’d smoothly cruise to victory) from 4-4 in the 2nd to Zhang leading 5-3 in the decider (the […] READ MORE
Braunschweig, Germany– While Federico Delbonis and Jan-Lennard Struff had already faced each other in the opening round at a Challenger (Helsinki 2012), neither had played a lot on that circuit in recent years. In fact, the Argentinian last showed up on it at Ismaning 2020, while Struff played Phoenix earlier this year, but before that […] READ MORE
As his career winds down, 37-year-old John Isner is looking to leave his final mark at the tour’s biggest tournaments. That starts with the most famous of them all, The Championships at Wimbledon. The North Carolina native has focused his sights on the Slams and Masters 1000 level tournaments. A father of two, Isner has […] READ MORE
Jan-Lenard Struff came into Wimbledon on a slow streak, having won only two matches all year, but with the capability from time to time to raise his level and do some damage. Carlos Alcaraz, of course, has had a stellar year, but skipped the grass court season and entered Wimbledon not having played a match […] READ MORE