Hey, Tennis Pro! It's Thursday.

It's great to see Nole back to his best game. Not sure if you had the chance to take a peek at the highlights of his match against Garin in Astana, but he completely dominated the Chilean in two straight sets. Although Djokovic is still ranked 7th by the ATP, he is playing as if he hasn't missed half of this year's grand slams.

Astana is heating up and the end of the week is going to get juicy with top-level matches. We love top-tier players on top performance.

It really hurts me to remove Roger from this chart since he is no longer active. Nevertheless, honorable mention to our favorite Swiss given that just a month ago he would have led the list with 65.30% effectiveness and 463 total wins... he would literally have been at the top along with Isner. (Softly weeping)

By the way, huge respect to the 2.08m tall John for wiping out the Top 3 on number of tie-break wins and leaving the rest biting the dust with his un-tiebreak-able energy. If you still had your doubts... you don't want to face off the American at a 6-6 all.

Goffin got kicked out of Astana!

Honestly, nothing against Goffin, I love the consistency of his play and he sure is a real hustler on the court. However, he showed up in the path of Carlos Alcaraz, the golden boy of the moment, just to smash the not-losing-in-straight-sets streak since November 2021, get us all excited... and then lose against Mannarino.

Felt like a first date and dump kinda thing.

Again, nothing against Mannarino, but... come on. If you're going to tear down the number one ranking 10 month streak, at least make it worth our while. Whatever, still rooting for Nole in Astana so... one Alcaraz less out of the way!

Yesterday’s Spotlight

ATP 500 Astana Open

🇬🇷 Tsitsipas S. / 🇮🇹 Nardi L. [7/6, 7/6]

🇧🇪 Goffin D. / 🇫🇷 Mannarino A. [6/3, 1/6, 5/7]

🇨🇱 Garin C. / 🇷🇸 Djokovic N. [1/6, 1/6]

ATP 500 Rakuten Japan Open

🇨🇦 Shapovalov D. / 🇺🇸 Johnson S. [6/3, 7/6]

🇦🇺 Duckworth J. / 🇺🇸 Fritz T. [2/6, 7/6, 1/6]

What’s cooking today…

🔝 ATP 500 Astana Open

🇰🇿 A. Bublik / 🇵🇱 H. Hurkacz

🇭🇷 M. Čilić / 🇷🇺 K. Khachanov

🇳🇱 B. van de Zandschulp / 🇷🇸 Djokovic N.

🔝 ATP 500 Rakuten Japan Open

🇨🇦 Shapovalov D. / 🇯🇵 R. Noguchi

🇦🇺 Kyrgios N. / 🇵🇱 Majchrzak K.

🇯🇵 H. Moriya / 🇺🇸 Fritz T.