2026 ATP General News

[El Dude]

Gotta love the Onion:

https://theonion.com/carlos-alcaraz-withdraws-from-french-open-over-career-threatening-haircut/

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Stan Wawrinka has confirmed that the 2026 Swiss Indoors Basel, October 24 - November 1, will be his final ATP tournament.
A special tribute ceremony scheduled for " Super Monday" on October 26

 

[the AntiPusher]

Stan Wawrinka has confirmed that the 2026 Swiss Indoors Basel, October 24 - November 1, will be his final ATP tournament.
A special tribute ceremony scheduled for " Super Monday" on October 26

Stanianimal is definitely a HOF.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Stanianimal is definitely a HOF.

I think so

 

[britbox]

Stanianimal is definitely a HOF.

He should he a shoe-in with 3 Singles Majors a and a Doubles gold.

 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

Stan is going to be a first ballot inductee in 2031. The real debate is whether Del Potro will get in. If he doesn't, then Medvedev won't either, unless he pads his resume with a 2nd slam.

Cilic would have been an interesting case if he did not have the PED issue. Without that, I think he probably eventually gets in like Ivanisevic. Their career stats are pretty much in line.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Stan is going to be a first ballot inductee in 2031. The real debate is whether Del Potro will get in. If he doesn't, then Medvedev won't either, unless he pads his resume with a 2nd slam.

Cilic would have been an interesting case if he did not have the PED issue. Without that, I think he probably eventually gets in like Ivanisevic. Their career stats are pretty much in line.

I think meddy gets in and like you said he has some time to pad his resume..I think he is the one who could invade the sinnraz kingdom

 

[El Dude]

While there's a lot of season to go, Jannik Sinner is on pace for his third season in a row with a 90 Win% or better. He would join a rather exclusive club of only X players to have three seasons in a row with 90W%:

Connors: 1974-76 (also 1978)
Borg: 1977-80
Lendl: 1985-87 (also 1982, 1989)
Federer: 2004-06 (also 2017)

As you can see, Borg had four seasons in a row.

There have only been 25 seasons in the Open Era, 26 if you round up Andy Murray's 89.7 in 2016.

Here are all players with at least one season:

5 seasons: Lendl
4 seasons: Connors, Borg, Federer
2 seasons: Nadal, Djokovic, Sinner
1 season: Vilas, McEnroe

Anyhow, I think this gives a sense of Sinner's high level of consistent dominance.