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By Val Febbo
Following a year where he featured in more OnlyFans videos than he won ATP Tour level matches, it was a long shot that Bernard Tomic would progress through qualifying to reach the...
By Val Febbo
Before the new year the Twitter account of the ATP Tour bestowed the terrible news that the ATP/WTA live scores app was to be axed, a major blow to tennis fans across the globe.
The...
I’m writing this blog as the year 2020 has come to a close. Tired, physically and mentally, stressed and worn out. But as a tennis coach that’s almost the norm these...
By Val Febbo with Marc Sophoulis
Sport is all about competitiveness, the essence of it is winning and losing, so athletes must have that that drive to succeed in order to prolong their careers.
It...
All the discussion and pondering is behind us, the ATP has finally released the first instalment of its 2021 rolling calendar with some key omissions and date changes for some of...
By Val Febbo with Marc Sophoulis
If you look at life like a novel or movie, it has its chapters, sequences and stanzas along with scenes of jubilation and complications. There are always goals, and...
By Val Febbo with Marc Sophoulis
With the tennis fraternity in the complete unknown about when the season will actually begin, let alone the Australian Open, how should players and coaches actually...
By The Tennis Menu Staff
After the most bizarre of year’s we hope to get back to some normalcy in the tennis world in 2021, so in our year end review show, The Tennis Menu’s experts of...
By Val Febbo
As we hit the culmination of the ATP Tour in 2020, reflecting on the season that was is a reminder that this calendar year is one that historians will always turn their attention to, as...
By Val Febbo
After twelve glorious editions of the ATP Finals the tennis circuit says goodbye to London after arguably its most exciting tournament yet.
The 2020 event that saw Daniil Medvedev...
By Val Febbo
Since the ATP Finals first descended on London in 2009 Russia has endured a lean patch at the event, with only Nikolay Davydenko reaching this iconic event before Daniil Medvedev in...
By Val Febbo
Tiebreaks have been a symbol of Dominic Thiem’s success in 2020, with his most famous one being in the decisive fifth set of the US Open final against Alexander Zverev in which...
