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 four 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.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Ben Shelton has confirmed he will be joining Fritz, Alex de Minaur for Team World in the Laver Cup in London
To date Team Europe has announced that Alcaraz and Zverev have confirmed with further player announcements in the coming months

 

[Kieran]

Men’s tennis is in trouble with Carlos out injured. It’s really not as strong as it needs to be. Even that there’s only two players who win things, and now one of them is out. It’s a bad product, when we know the score before the end. When there was 3, at least if one (Rafa) was injured there was 2 competitive great players - and some very competitive, very good players, like Andy and Stan.

Tennis now, without Carlos, has one player left, and the rest of them are just “the draw.”

It’s not healthy…

 

[britbox]

Men’s tennis is in trouble with Carlos out injured. It’s really not as strong as it needs to be. Even that there’s only two players who win things, and now one of them is out. It’s a bad product, when we know the score before the end. When there was 3, at least if one (Rafa) was injured there was 2 competitive great players - and some very competitive, very good players, like Andy and Stan.

Tennis now, without Carlos, has one player left, and the rest of them are just “the draw.”

It’s not healthy…

I concur, but nature abhors a vacuum.