Tommy Paul

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2023 w liczbach:

Ranking: 13
Bialns meczów: 41-28
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 2 (Eastbourne, Acapulco)
Zarobki: $2,533,223

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7) Americans Eye Repeat Performance: For the first time in Melbourne since the 2000 Australian Open — and the first Grand Slam overall since the 2005 US Open — three American men reached the quarter-finals last year at the season's first major. Tommy Paul went the furthest, beating Ben Shelton in an all-American quarter-final before bowing out to Djokovic in the semis. Korda, the third American quarter-finalist, upset Medvedev and Hubert Hurkacz in succession before being forced to retire against Karen Khachanov with a wirst injury. Just one of those three Americans was seeded last year in Melbourne: Korda. This year, all three are seeded, along with countrymen Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe.

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Tommy Paul & Australia, the perfect match?

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World No. 14 starts this year's Australian Open campaign against Barrere
January 15, 2024
Tommy Paul reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open last year.Getty Images
Tommy Paul reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open last year.
By Sam Jacot
Tommy Paul enjoyed the best season of his career in 2023 and it all started at the Australian Open.

The American battled to the semi-finals at the hard-court major, cracking the Top 20 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings for the first time. Back in Melbourne this week, the 26-year-old looks back on last year’s event with fondness.

“I think the things that stick out from last year was that I played pretty aggressive tennis, I served pretty well,” Paul told ATPTour.com. “It was actually a pretty loose couple of weeks. I had a pretty good time. My girlfriend was in town. Mum came. It was kind of just a fun couple weeks.

“I was quite relaxed off court, which kind of helps. In those events, it gets pretty hectic. It feels like sometimes at those tournaments, it feels everything's closing in on you and it's like a little too much. I like to keep things pretty relaxed. I don't like to do too much stuff or be outside too much during tournaments, but in Australia, it's pretty easy. Everything is pretty convenient and pretty easy going. It kind of matches my personality. I just tried to stay off my feet between matches and I’m pretty good at that.”

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The 14th seed’s relaxed off-court approach combined with his attacking on-court game worked in Australia. He moved past Jan-Lennard Struff, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Jenson Brooksby, Roberto Bautista Agut and Ben Shelton before eventual champion Novak Djokovic stopped him in the semi-finals.

“When I was playing in Australia and I kind of tried to do it throughout the year, I just played more aggressive, serving better, taking more risk,” Paul said. “But also at the same time playing a little smarter.

“I think it's also experience that helps. Playing those big matches. You have a lot of pressure situations and every match it's really how you deal with those. And I think I've got a lot better dealing with those situations and I kind of look forward to those situations.”

After Australia, Paul advanced to finals in Acapulco and Eastbourne. He reached his first ATP Masters 1000 semi-final in Toronto and climbed to a career-high No. 12 in October.

Currently at No. 14, Paul is one of four Americans inside the Top 20, with 10 Americans inside the Top 100. Paul, who defeated countryman Shelton in the Australian Open quarter-finals last year, is excited about the current state of American tennis.

“People in my kind of group in the 1997, 1998 years, with Francis [Tiafoe] and [Taylor] Fritz, I think we've all kind of learned a lot every year. We have got better every year,” Paul said. “We've been pushing each other. We see each other doing well. We want to do better.

“But then at the same time you have the younger group with Ben [Shelton] and [Sebastian] Korda coming up and I mean Korda's kind of been there for a while now. He's definitely been a tough guy to play against forever. It's just exciting. Like obviously their path to where they're at now is a lot quicker than maybe mine or even Francis’. I feel Francis was there for a while, but now I feel like he's really solidified himself as one of the top players in the world.”

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Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton after their quarter-final match last year. Photo: Getty Images
The benefits of having a strong crop of American players was evident during Paul’s off-season. The 2021 Stockholm champion prepped for the Aussie swing alongside a number of his countrymen in Florida.

“I did off-season at home in Florida,” Paul said. “We had a pretty good group of guys that we were training with. I was with J.J. Wolf, Francis was down there, Kovacevic, Reilly Opelka. Michael Mmoh was down there a couple days. We had a really good group. We were getting after it. We were grinding and a lot of us were actually doing fitness together. We were on court straight to the gym together. It was a fun time, but we were crushing it. We were working really hard.

“It's way more fun with people that you really enjoy. We all love playing against each other. We all hang out quite a bit. The banter is really good between all of us. It definitely makes a big difference. It's amazing playing with or practising with people at such a high level. Sometimes some people are in areas where they can't practice with the best players in the States or the best players in the world. And I mean, I'm lucky enough that I have a bunch of the best players in the world living in the same place as me. It is nice.

Paul will hope the work undertaken in Florida will help him in Melbourne, starting against Frenchman Gregoire Barrere in the first round. After gaining his first win of the season at the ATP 250 event in Adelaide last week, the 26-year-old is ready to go deep again at the major.

“I'm excited. The conditions are pretty good for me. I like the way the courts play. I like the heat. I like the heat a lot and I think I play pretty well in the heat,” Paul said. “I've spent a good chunk of my life living in Florida and it's pretty hot down there. Different kind of heat, but I would much rather play in heat than cold or indoors or anything like that.”

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Coach Stine On Paul perception: 'Let's perpetuate those myths'

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Longtime coach provides insight into Paul's rise
January 18, 2024
Tommy Paul's girlfriend Paige Lorenze and coach Brad Stine at a match in 2023.Peter Staples/ATP Tour
Tommy Paul's girlfriend Paige Lorenze and coach Brad Stine at a match in 2023.
By Andrew Eichenholz
Brad Stine has coached a long list of stars in the tennis world, most notably enjoying multiple stints with former No. 1 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings Jim Courier. He now works with Netflix Break Point star Tommy Paul.

“Tommy is dedicated to wanting to be a great tennis player. He doesn't want to just be average. Obviously anybody that makes Top 100 and plays at the top echelon of the game is not average anyway,” Stine told ATPTour.com. “But within the game itself, we look at your ranking and the rounds that you've achieved in tournaments, and those kinds of things and established [what is] an average type of career. Tommy's not satisfied with that. He wants to be better than that and that's pushed him.

“I think that because of that commitment on his part, that allows me to coach and give him information that he absorbs, and that he wants to put into what he's doing as a player to try and get better. I think that he's done a good job of being coachable.”


Paul has steadily climbed into the world’s Top 20 and is now World No. 14, two spots off his career high. Break Point details some of the American’s early struggles, but those are long behind him.

“I think that, in a lot of ways, my timing, and his timing with me, was fortuitous. He was prepared and ready to be more serious, So that made it a little bit easier for me,” Stine said. “To be honest with you, the very first year that we started, we were like, let's perpetuate those myths that he's not being professional, that he's not doing what he's supposed to be doing, that he's not working hard, that he's kind of flaky and loosey-goosey and everything like that. Let people believe that as long as you possibly can.”

Paul has built a close bond with his team, which includes Stine, fitness coach Franco Herrero and physiotherapist Sebastian Cozzarin. The 26-year-old often spends time with Herrero and Cozzarin outside of their working relationship.

“We spend a lot of time together. We spend a lot of time traveling, we spend a lot of time together, we spend a lot of time communicating when we're not together. So you develop a pretty close bond, close relationship in general, and so, obviously, it's my job to want to see him be successful,” Stine said. “But the fact that you're committed to that relationship, it makes a big difference. It should be more than just a job in our environment, with a one-on-one type situation. It becomes a little bit more than that.

“I think it's more enjoyable to be with someone who you'd like to be with and that you have a better relationship with and you care about more on a little bit deeper level than just professionally.”

The docuseries traced Paul’s 2023 season, joining the battle to become the No. 1 American. One of the biggest moments of the year came at the US Open. Paul rallied from two sets down to defeat Roman Safiullin in the second round and keep his hopes alive.

“They should have had us mic'd up during the Safiullin match. I was going nuts during that match, I actually completely forgot I had the mic on,” Stine said. “I was dropping F bombs left and right. They must have nicely edited that, they must have made me look very, like low key.”

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A match the show focussed on was Paul’s clash with Ben Shelton in the fourth round. Shelton ultimately triumphed in four sets and then ousted Frances Tiafoe in the quarter-finals.

“That was a tough match for a lot of reasons. Tommy was not at his best that day. He was struggling with some other situations and I'm not talking [about] personal things. He wasn't feeling well at all that day. He spent a fair amount of time in the loo before the match and just wasn't feeling good,” Stine said. “His stomach was really upset. It was really unfortunate from that standpoint, that I didn't feel that he was really in a position to offer his best tennis throughout the entirety of the match.

“Ben did a great job I thought in the match. We've seen Ben to get to where he's at, to be in the Top 20 after basically less than two full years on the tour and everything was super impressive. We know how dangerous the guy is. He served great, and he took his opportunities when they came up.”

According to Stine, the Netflix crew interviewed the pair in Rome for an hour each without telling them what one another said. One thing Stine mentioned was that he believes Paul does a good job finding a work-life balance.

“I think he does a very good job of putting his time in at the office, working hard, preparing and doing the things that he needs to do on court, off court to be the best tennis player that he can be,” Stine said. “But he doesn't then obsess over all of that all the rest of his time that he's away from the court. So he loves to get away. He loves to spend time with his friends. He likes to have a beer or two over playing some cornhole or playing a little bit of golf or fishing.

“Fishing is a big thing for him right now. He's always been a fisherman since he was a kid. He used to go fishing with his mom a lot and stuff when he was a kid. Now he and Franco, they've gone crazy in Florida. Every spare second they can they try to go fishing. He loves it… I think it's a really healthy escape for him to get away from the game a little bit and clear his head. I think it probably keeps you fresher in the end when you get back to the court to play.”

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