2020 Qatar ExxonMobil Open preview: Is Stan the man for this year’s title?
BOASTING an open field with plenty of potential winners, the 2020 Qatar Open will almost certainly have a first-time title holder. The most recent winner was Roberto Bautista Agut, with Gael Monfils winning in 2018, ending the run of back-to-back victories by Novak Djokovic, and triumphs to David Ferrer and Rafael Nadal. In fact, the […]
2020 ATP Cup preview: Can Serbia bounce back from heartbreaking Davis Cup defeat?
THERE are plenty of storylines that could play out at the inaugural 2020 ATP Cup in Australia early in the New Year. The tournament is the same style as the controversial Davis Cup, but with a clear goal that makes sense – to get the best players playing. Each win gains ATP Tour ranking points […]
Year in review – 2019: Gael Monfils
GAEL Monfils had another busy year competing at a host of tournaments and put his name forward once again as a strong contender after steadily rising up the ranks thanks to solid wins. Rank: 10 Wins: 37 Losses: 19 Titles: 1 Prize money: $2,901,347 Monfils maintained his title winning consistency throughout 2019 securing the Rotterdam […]
Davis Cup Finals – Round 1: Pospisil stuns Italy as Canada snatches victory
WHILE Round 2 of the Davis Cup Finals began overnight, we recap how the first round of action went down across the past two days with each group completing one match. There were some interesting results including Russia’s clean sweep of reigning champions, Croatia, as well as a rank outsider taking down a top 12 […]
2019 Davis Cup preview: All you need to know
WHILE we released our group-by-group previews over the past week, we have developed a full Davis Cup Finals preview with how the teams got here, where they are ranked and who we think might win it. DAVIS CUP WORLD RANKINGS: HOW THEY GOT HERE Under the new Davis Cup format, qualifiers were played back in […]
2019 Davis Cup preview: Group A
IN the first of our Davis Cup group previews, we take a look at Group A. The almighty French side is tipped to finish top, but fans can not discount the Novak Djokovic factor for Serbia, while Japan will enter the tournament as underdogs given Kei Nishikori is not available. Group A France Gael Monfils […]
