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Over the past near 21 days the unfolding of the 2024 Wimbledon Championships has taken place from the lead up to the aftermath and with equally polarising results and yet still those players that are compounded by the data and how the past season has continued to unfold has been cause for a much needed realignment. A cautionary tale here is in respect to being mindful of the past season — 12 months until now, as if we only consider the current season and how the results have unfolded, then… Read more: Top 10 [Tennis] Rankings Corrections and how the 2024 Wimbledon Championships tightened the Top 5 Players on both the WTA and ATP tours

Last week we just touched the surface on essentially what we were really able to witness throughout the 2024 French Open with only a handful of players highlighted with so much more depth to come. As promised, this week it’s time to dive into a little more detail to really showcase the depth of the field and players that did not progress to the finals, however, still made an impressive appearance in the final eight. Needless to say, at the Grand Slam level it really is in part the luck… Read more: The Final 8 of Roland Garros Explained, the Top 10 to Expectations, [TENNIS] Players in their Prime to who’s next in line for a Grand Slam

As the red clay settles and the noise becomes that little bit quieter, the grass beckons for those who have had time for their losses to settle and tackle a new surface with renewed hope of a better performance. Yet the tide is still high for the Champions of the 2024 French Open as their new silverware finds a new place to call home. For whilst there are only two who left triumphant with these titles, there are many more who should indeed be proud of their accomplishments to performances… Read more: How the 2024 French Open separated Top 10 Tennis Players and closed the Gap between Others plus lessons for the 2024 Olympics

This week on Beyond Top 10 Tennis specific players inside the Top 10 on both the WTA and ATP tours were highlighted for various reasons with an emphasis placed on whether or not they were or were not in the running for the second Grand Slam of the season. With Swiatek’s success over the last couple of weeks, it is easy to forget how both Collins and Sakkari have been surging ahead in their own rights and how Sabalenka was with a Championship point to claim the title in Madrid.… Read more: The Countdown towards Roland Garros 2024, Swiatek’s Mantle and Tennis Players in Contention

The last two weeks I’ve leveraged A.I to gauge it’s effectiveness to capabilities in sharing data to more precisely pulling a part key topics explored throughout individual episodes of Beyond Top 10 Tennis to give you a better glimpse or snapshot of what is essentially more than 10,000 words into an easy to digest format. It has been fun but also a lot of work. A.I definitely has its advantages but behind the scenes both of those articles were more arduous to time-consuming than I’d anticipated. And more often than… Read more: From A.I to Tennis Players on Fire, Final Seasons, Top 4 on the WTA and ATP tours & the G.O.A.T Data often Ignored

Celebrating the one year Anniversary of Beyond Top 10 Tennis, this week’s episode — #85 is a capstone of what the past 12 months has delivered from our initial beginnings to this very season as the French Open beckons at the later end of this Month.  What follows is a detailed, albeit brief, summary highlighting a handful of key takeaways and multifaceted strategies required as discussed in this week’s episode that revisited a multitude of key segments over the past year. Additional reminders to pitfalls players face on their journey… Read more: A Comprehensive Overview of Developing Elite Tennis Players: A Milestone Recap of Episodes 1 to 85 of Beyond Top 10 Tennis

As the world’s leading scientist and elite performance coach across the tennis landscape, my life’s work has been an unwavering pursuit to unlock the secrets behind developing and sustaining a top 10 tennis ranking among other achievements i.e. Grand Slam success. Through over two decades of research, data analysis, and working with athletes across the globe, I have identified technical rulers as one of the critical lynchpins separating the elite echelon from the rest of the field. This fundamental principle was brought into sharp focus during the latest episode of… Read more: This Week’s Episode with a Twist: Unlocking Tennis Player Autonomy as the Story[line] in Madrid

The onslaught of the game to the highs and lows and everything in between is the reality of what a tennis player signs up for with the sheer driver of love pulling and pushing them all the way. It’s a hard truth but equally a beautiful reality when performance merges with this passion and equates with Grand Slam success. It’s the pinnacle of play and a heart filled with desire — bursting at the seams to lift that elusive trophy. Whether it be once, twice or twenty times more, the truth is forever etched in a player’s… Read more: For the Love of the Game: A [true] Tennis Player’s Reality