While most players outside of the top 100 in the world struggle with making a living from their play, the best paid stars reel in millions per year. The main difference for the sport’s top earners? Sponsorships and endorsements. For players like Carlos Alcaraz, the main income these days is off the court, where they not only endorse rackets and tennis clothes, but luxury and daily goods. Today, we want …
Simon Zeitler
Simon Zeitler
Simon is a true tennis fan that writes about the ATP and WTA tour as well as interesting tennis gear.
The first week of our last Grand Slam this year is through and well, it goes without saying that there have been a ton of surprises. Numerous top seeds have been eliminated, including Djokovic, Alcaraz and Gauff. This has changed the outlook immensely and might even produce a new Slam champion on the men’s side of things. Let’s look back at the biggest stories from this week and how they …
As we all know, hybrid string setups have been around on and off tour for quite some time. Players like Roger Federer, Alexander Zverev or Novak Djokovic have been playing with hybrid setups of gut and poly for some time. String manufacturers, such as Wilson and Babolat, often even have pre-packed hybrid gut setups for sale. But high prices and sometimes limited playability in humid regions remain a problem for …
Of course, the women’s draw has also been published last night. And as per usual, Iga Swiatek is the player in the top spot coming into the US Open. She might be leading the rankings, but she struggled a bit with certain opponents within the last weeks, and all of those will be coming for her at this tournament. Aryna Sabalenka seems to be all back from a shoulder injury, …
The US Open draw is out, and the last of four Grand Slams is already kicked off with the qualifications. Time for us to see who has been lucky and who might be on the bad end of the men’s draw. With the defending champion Novak Djokovic coming back from his post Olympics break, he will face off against the two new stars, Alcaraz and Sinner. The latter has just …
The Fritz – Nakashima scandal, a turning point for electronic line-calling?
We all remember the footage from this years Cincinnati Masters very well – the electronic line-calling failed mid-point and Taylor Fritz was on the worse end of the ensuing argument. While it was clear to any tennis nerd that he should have been awarded that point, the umpire made them replay the point. Brandon Nakashima won the point and the match, and it seems the electronic aid has lost its …
Previously, in the era of the Big Three, the ATP was known as the more consistent ones of the pro circuits. Usually, the biggest stars were sharing the titles amongst each other, and even players like Stan Wawrinka needed to hustle hard for any Masters or Grand Slam titles. But with the departure of Federer, Murray and potentially Nadal now, it seems that the doors get a bit more open …
It seems like Wimbledon just finished yesterday, but we are already through the Olympics and one of two Masters tournaments of the American hard-court swing. Alexei Popyrin is the surprising winner of the 2024 Montreal Masters, beating Andrey Rublev in the final. Now, with just a couple more weeks to go until the final Slam of the year, we are about to start the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati. Let’s look …
The picture of the wear and tear on Wimbledon courts between the 1970s and today (see image below) have gone viral amongst tennis sites. It shows that, while in the 70s the court was worn all over, it now gets mainly used behind the baseline. Surely, the game style has changed and this is mainly due to two factors: equipment and technique. Especially the technique part is interesting, as it …
Let’s face it, we all were hoping for a final like this, when the Olympic tennis tournament started. The men’s final is no other than the 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic against the currently best tennis player in Carlos Alcaraz. We don’t need to introduce those two or how they match up, but we certainly want to preview the Olympic final and how it might shake out. Their way …