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Maybe you’ve seen the videos floating around of 13-year-old Lucas Herrera Sanchez, who hits a forehand on both sides:
13 year old Ambidextrous kid Lucas hits forehand on both sides and no backhand he’s lighting up the junior tournaments…This is insane pic.twitter.com/...
Another year in the books, and the Match Charting Project keeps reaching new heights.
Here are just a few milestones we’ve hit recently:
17,000 charted matches 10,000,000 (yes, ten million) charted shots 1,000 different women with at lea...Four years ago, when I started work on the Tennis 128, Carlos Alcaraz was 18 years old. He was ranked 32nd on the ATP computer. Now, six(!) major titles later, I’m officially adding him to my pantheon of greats.
The algorithm I devised...
I wrote last week about the decline of specialization on the men’s tour. I proposed that we see more good all-around players because, as the overall level improves, there’s less relative value in being a one-dimensional se...
You might have heard that Jannik Sinner did something in 2025 that no one has ever done before. For the first time since modern statkeeping began in 1991, he led the tour in both hold percentage and return percentage. There’s a caveat here, because Sinner missed most of the clay season, which might have dragged down his return numbers relative to the field. Still, it...
