Tsitisipas Tour Portrait & Aussie Chances

[jimlosaltos]

Stefanos Tsitisipas is among the favorites at the Australian Open, where the semi-quick-ish courts should suit his all-court attacking game. You can see his TPN Tour Portrait here:
https://www.tennisplayer.net/members...nos_tsitsipas/

In case you missed it, Tsitsipas pulled out of the ATP World Tour Finals in Turin, and flew almost immediately to Mexico to have elbow surgery. While I haven't seen the injury named, Tsitsipas reportedly consulted with the doctor that did Novak's elbow surgery about inflammation of the Bursa sack, which helps lubricate the elbow. Now, I don't think there is such a thing as "minor surgery", but elite athletes have recovered well from Bursa surgery. The most famous example is John Elway having his Bursa removed, then throwing TD pass in the Super Bowl that traveled 70 yards in the air.

We've had a lot of coverage of the Greek lately.

Earlier I posted in the forum on Tsitsipas' unusual service-toss-cluster of over 50 inches. In addition to details on his toss, I included data from InfoSys showing how he can hit all four corners of the service box, and do so with different types of serves.
https://www.tennisplayer.net/bulleti...orks#post92881


For context, here are toss clusters for The Big 3
https://www.tennisplayer.net/bulleti...-2nd#post93049


Here is a link to video of Tsitipas's serve by Jerry Counts' https://www.tennisplayer.net/bulleti...-jeffreycounts
https://www.tennisplayer.net/bulleti...sitsipas-serve


AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2022 MEN'S SINGLES ODDS

Novak Djokovic	$2.35
Daniil Medvedev	$3.50
Alexander Zverev	$5.00
Rafael Nadal	$8.00
Dominic Thiem	$11.00
Stefanos Tsitsipas	$13.00
Jannik Sinner	$17.00
Andrey Rublev	$26.00
Carlos Alacarez	$26.00

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And, given our interest in Stef's unconventional serving variety, here's one of my photos. <g>

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[jimlosaltos]

Tsitsipas is up with Rafa, Zverev and probably Carlos Alcaraz Garfia as having one of the heaviest combinations of forehand and backhand.

Here are two stats. Here you can see one of the largest contrasts in forehand shot style in Stef vs Medy -- a 1,240 RPM difference, yet only 1 mph. Image fm Tennis Channel. For context, Nikoloz Basilashvili had the highest average speed on both forehand and backhand groundstrokes last year at 80 MPH on both sides.

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Here we have InfoSys stats from Roland Garros showing one of the largest forehands not only at that event but in ATP stats anywhere -
- 125 MPH with 3,584 RPMs, in his win over Zverev.

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My earlier article on latest pro spin and speeds is on TPN here:
https://www.tennisplayer.net/members...op_ball_speed/

And, here's how extravagant Stef's swing is on hitting a big topspin one-hander off a shortish, low ball. A motion-image sequence from Indian Wells last October. My pics.

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[stroke]

Very good info on the spin rates. Ruud probably up there too.

[jimlosaltos]

Very good info on the spin rates. Ruud probably up there too.

Since you mentioned Ruud, here's a quick pull from InfoSys stats for Indian Wells vs Bublic, I believe: 181 Km/H (121.5 mph) at 3,726 rpm.

Unfortunately, the ATP implementation of InfoSys omits a good deal of the data in the Roland Garros implementation, such as which shot this was

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[jimlosaltos]

Update: After sitting out the first round of the ATP Cup, Stef played his first tour match since surgery, losing in 3 to Schwartzman but sounding positive: "After sitting out the first match at the ATP Cup, Stef lost to Schwartzman in 3 sets but sounded positive -- while admitting where he was with his injury last year for the first time: "“It worked out better than I thought. I was able to hit balls that I was scared to hit two weeks ago, so I’m heading towards the right direction.'

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/tsitsipas-atp-cup-2022-reaction-monday

[stroke]

He looked good to me. Quite younger looking clean shaven. Probably most girls liked him better with his Jesus look, but I expect he is still good to go in that department.