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Serve-and-volleying is a dying art but especially at the lower ranks, there are a few players who still try to make it their path to glory. One of them is 25-year-old Antoine Bellier who came out of basically nowhere (when it comes to the Challenger level) to win his maiden title at San Luis Potosi. […] READ MORE
John Isner and Maxime Cressy will have a serving duel on day 2 of the Australian Open, we have predictions for every first round match including Andy Murray and Daniil Medvedev’s matches as our panelists take you through the draw in Melbourne. John Isner vs Maxime Cressy Embed from Getty Images Jakub Bobro: Isner hasn’t […] READ MORE
Frances Tiafoe and Stefanos Tsitsipas play their second round matches at the US Open in New York as Grand Slam tennis continues. Our panelists Anish Joshi, Jack Edward, and Damian Kust, offer their predictions for all the matches. Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Adrian Mannarino Embed from Getty Images Jack: What looked like a tough draw for […] READ MORE
Day 1 at the US Open features an All-American battle between Frances Tiafoe and Christopher Eubanks. Our panelists Jim Smith, Yesh Ginsburg and Damian Kust are on hand to offer all their predictions for Monday’s Grand Slam tennis action. Thiago Monteiro vs Dan Evans Embed from Getty Images Damian: Evans has had a string of […] READ MORE
There should be plenty of entertaining tennis for the fans on day two at the All England Club. There are 32 matches on the slate at Wimbledon and as always we here at LWOT will be offering our predictions for every match, including Matteo Berrettini vs Guido Pella, Nick Kyrgios vs Ugo Humbert, Fernando Verdasco […] READ MORE
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Challenger Tour will host five events in the same week, something that used to happen quite regularly before. What’s crazy is that all three surfaces will be in play – grass in Nottingham, hard courts in Orlando, and three other clay-court tournaments. But before we get […] READ MORE
The Australian Open qualifying was originally supposed to finish on Friday, but 20 matches had to be postponed by one day. Using nine courts, the qualifying competition was belatedly finished, leaving the field set for the first Major of the decade. Australian Open Qualifying Day 5 The qualifiers Alejandro Tabilo Mario Vilella Martinez Daniel Elahi […] READ MORE
Speaking of this week’s Challenger Tour action, you can’t omit the unfortunate Florence incident. We’ve already covered it here and you should check out the article if you didn’t hear about a chair umpire who sexually harassed a ball girl and pep talked one of the players. Onto some better sportsmanship, Mikael Ymer took home […] READ MORE
As tennis finally enters its all too brief off-season, our resident tennis historian, Martin Keady, looks back at some of the highlights of the 2018 season. If 2017 felt a little like 2007, at least on the men’s side as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal shared the year’s Majors between them, 2018 felt a little […] READ MORE