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The ATP Tour heads to Rome for a star-studded Masters 1000 clay-court event. The Internazionali BNL d’Italia in the Italian capital is filled with a 96-man singles draw that features the 13 top-ranked players in the world. Day 1 in Rome will feature a bevy of intriguing Round 1 matches, including Ilya Ivashka taking on […] READ MORE
Tomas Barrios Vera and Zsombor Piros kept up their winning streaks on the Challenger Tour this week, although one of them had a week of rest between his back-to-back titles. Filip Misolic and Raphael Collingnon were involved in a very dramatic final in Roseto Degli Abruzzi, while Zizou Bergs completely dominated the field in Tallahassee. […] READ MORE
Now that Houston is done with the NCAA basketball tournament, it can focus solely on ATP clay-court tennis. We have six first-round matches on tap on Tuesday. Will the madness transfer from the basketball courts to the tennis courts? What do you think will happen? ATP Houston Day 2 Predictions J.J. Wolf vs Jordan Thompson […] READ MORE
Day 4 at the ATP event in Santiago promises to feature a lot of tight, exciting action in the conclusion of the round of 16. #32 Francisco Cerundolo will be the highest ranked player in action, but the matches should still be very exciting and high level. ATP Santiago Day 4 Predictions Juan Manuel Cerundolo […] READ MORE
Fans of clay-court tennis had better follow this week’s ATP Santiago Open extensively, because there aren’t going to be any ATP Tour events on this surface in March. We start things off with four singles main draw matches on day one and, as always, we here at LWOT will be offering our predictions for every […] READ MORE
Day 2 at the ATP event in Rio de Janeiro will feature plenty of high-level matches. Most of the attention will be rightly directed to Carlos Alcaraz’s tournament debut, but there’ll be plenty of other exciting action going on, including the debut of the other Buenos Aires finalist Cameron Norrie. ATP Rio de Janeiro Day […] READ MORE
Only eight men remain at the ATP Cordoba Open. Could we witness another first-time champion in the first clay-court tournament of 2023? We will find out soon enough. Four matches are on schedule, with the most anticipated match of the day featuring 2021 champion Juan Manuel Cerundolo taking on Bolivian No. 1 Hugo Dellien. Who […] READ MORE
oeiorThe second set of four second-round matches kicks off on Thursday at the ATP Cordoba Open. Local fans will have plenty to look forward to six Argentinian players in action on day four. A place is in the quarterfinals is on the line and, as always, we here at LWOT are offering our predictions for […] READ MORE
As the ATP Tour transitions from the first Slam of the year, Cordoba, Argentina, is set to host the fifth edition of the Cordoba Open. This is the opening leg of the Golden Swing and a tournament where we typically see very high-level tennis from clay-court specialists. Albert Ramos-Vinolas will look to repeat as champion […] READ MORE
It was a very young and exciting set of winners on the ATP Challenger Tour last week. The oldest of them, Juan Manuel Cerundolo, is barely 21 years old! It was also a good week to be a Frenchman named Arthur as both Cazaux and Fils grabbed titles. For the latter, it was his maiden […] READ MORE
A student from Poland, Damian is a connoisseur of the lower tiers of men's tennis and would probably watch the World No. 700 play a ferret if he could see it from the stands. Always pleased by a beautiful one-handed backhand or classic volleying technique.