The Five Finest Wimbledon Men’s Finals Ever

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Ahead of the 2021 Final, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, looks back at the finest Wimbledon Men’s Singles Finals ever. The 2021 edition will have to go some to match these classics. In ascending order, here are the five finest Wimbledon Men’s Singles Finals Ever. 2001: Goran Ivanišević beats Pat Rafter 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, […] READ MORE


Rafael Nadal and the Art Of Winning with Fewer Points

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In tennis, there are some times where the player that wins the match didn’t win more points than their opponent. This situation of winning with fewer points rarely occurs but when it happens, the player who won the match is usually the one who managed better the difficult situations. Playing with the score and dealing […] READ MORE


Federer, Nadal and Djokovic: Their Five Finest Finals

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One of the many reasons why the current Federer-Nadal-Djokovic (or “Fedalic”, for short) era is undoubtedly the greatest in the history of men’s tennis is that the members of “The Big Three” have played so many classic finals against each other, especially at the Majors. The Wimbledon 2019 Final was yet another extraordinary example of […] READ MORE


Is This A Problem? Roger Federer Is Not Hitting As Many Aces

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Roger Federer is serving fewer aces than he was a year ago at Wimbledon, according to data from IBM. This year, through the quarterfinals, he has 42 aces. At the same point in 2018, he had 64. He has played the same number of sets– exactly 17 sets through the quarterfinals in each of the […] READ MORE