Category: Singles
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Who will be the top ten male tennis players in 2025?
With Rafa and Roger surely in retirement, we predict the year-end top ten for 2025
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Want to get better at tennis? Then be prepared to lose
I play a lot of tennis. In the past two weeks, five competitive matches across three different formats – mixed doubles, singles and men’s doubles. And how many sets have I won, you ask? A big fat zero. Now, that’s clearly not my aim as a tennis player. I always play to win, to be…
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Things we learned from the Next Gen ATP Finals tournament
Apologies for my lateness. So much to do, so much tennis of my own to play, that I’ve only just caught up with the final of the Next Gen ATP Finals tournament last week (spoiler: Hyeon Chung won). If you haven’t seen it, and you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber, I thoroughly recommend you look at…
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Why I love watching tennis (and why all tennis players should watch it too)
As I write this, tennis players are battling it out in Rome. I can think of no better setting than the home of the Colosseum, that epic battleground where gladiators would fight to the death, to symbolise all that’s amazing about tennis. For make no mistake, a true, intense tennis match is a fight. The…
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Video: Dustin Brown’s trick shots
We like a good, gravity-defying trick shot here at Tennis Talent and Germany’s Dustin Brown is one of the finest purveyors in the sport today. This supercut, which comes courtesy of Wimbledon, shows Brown at his cheekiest: a diving volley, a tweener (which prompts a gasped “is that humanly possible?” from the shocked commentator) and, our…
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Imperious Johanna Konta wins Apia International Sydney Open in style
Wow. Watching Johanna Konta, a woman who only broke into the top 50 in late 2015, dismantle World No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4 6-2 in the Sydney Open this morning, “wow” was the only word to capture her performance. Radwanska is famed for her defensive abilities, able to retrieve the most well struck and well placed of…
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Tip of the day: The approach shot
There’s nothing worse than doing the hard slog of laboriously setting up a winner, only to squander it with a misplaced or weak approach shot. In this excellent tutorial for Tennis Now, coach Blair Henley offers tactical and technical advice about how to pull off the perfect approach shot – and win the point. Or,…
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Tip of the day: Dynamic warm up
It may not be the most exciting part of playing tennis, or any sport for that matter, but warming up is absolutely key if you want to avoid those niggling aches and pains – or a more serious injury. “Well, duh, everyone knows that”, I hear you moan. However, many of us still fall into…
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Tip of the day: Improve your game in the gym
If you can’t get on the court as much as you’d like and use the gym to keep the pounds at bay, there are plenty of muscle exercises that can help you improve your tennis game. In this CNN video, World No.1 Angelique Kerber runs through a few basic techniques, such as sit-ups and planks,…
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Tip of the day: Half volley
Be it at the net or on the baseline, the half volley is a key shot when you’ve been surprised by the pace of the ball or are launching an attack. Let’s take an example. The first clip in the Federer supercut below shows the Swiss stretching David Ferrer with a wide, cross-court backhand before…
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