Tommy Paul

[Damian]

16.09.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 88

[Damian]

23.09.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 87

[Kamileki]

CH Tiburon SF:

85 Grégoire Barrère 632
86 Tommy Paul 623
87 Dominik Köpfer 621

[Damian]

CH Tiburon F:

85 Kamil Majchrzak 652
86 Tommy Paul 648
87 Stefano Travaglia 645

[Damian]

30.09.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 81

[arti]

[Kamileki]

CH Tiburon: 3. tytuł CH w 2019.

First Republic Tiburon Challenger (Tiburon, California, USA): Tommy Paul claimed his third Challenger title of the year, prevailing on Sunday in Tiburon. He outlasted Thanasi Kokkinakis 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-4 in two hours and 46 minutes, adding to victories in Sarasota and New Haven.

The week in Tiburon will also be remembered for a pair of magical escape acts by Thai-Son Kwiatkowski. The former University of Virginia standout rallied from a set and a double-break down on Thursday, before again storming back from a double-break deficit on Friday. He saved hree match points to reach the semi-finals.

[Lucas]

Challenger Q&A: Paul Edges Kokkinakis In Marathon Tiburon Final

Spoiler:

American sits down with broadcaster Mike Cation to discuss his third ATP Challenger Tour title of the year in Tiburon
The rise of Tommy Paul continues. Exactly one year ago, the American was sitting outside the Top 300 of the ATP Rankings, fighting to find his form. On Monday, he will be the new World No. 81 after lifting the trophy in Tiburon.

Paul survived an instant classic against Thanasi Kokkinakis in Sunday's final. The 22-year-old triumphed 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-4 in two hours and 46 minutes, converting five of 12 break chances.
With the wind howling across the Peninsula Club throughout the day, both players were forced to make plenty of adjustments. They would manage the conditions well, blasting winners off both wings and delighting the packed crowd in the San Francisco suburb. And despite relinquishing a set and a break lead, Paul came up clutch in the critical moments, eventually breaking to love for the title.

The North Carolina native made his Top 100 debut earlier this month with a title in New Haven and he would continue his ascent with a third crown of the year. He also celebrated a clay-court victory in Sarasota in April.

Paul is undoubtedly one of the top performers on the Challenger circuit this year, boasting a 27-4 record. That impressive .870 win percentage is good for third among tour leaders.


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Title No. 3 for the this year, outlasting Kokkinakis 75 67(3) 64 for the Tiburon

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The American spoke to broadcaster Mike Cation following the victory in Tiburon...

Tommy, congratulations. Your third Challenger title of 2019. It was a crazy match with that wind. How were the both of you making adjustments through that match?
It was definitely a big factor in the match. The first set and a half, because of the wind, I don't think either of us felt like we were playing well at all. For me, it just made serving a lot harder. Making your first serve and then doing something with it, was incredibly hard today. You have to toss really low, because the wind will take it if you throw it up. But when you're hitting good serves with a low toss, the trajectory doesn't work. That was the biggest thing for me.

Midway through the second, I picked up my level. And after he saw that, he really picked up his own level. I tried to even that out in the tie-break, in case we went to a third set, to let him know that I'm there for a decider. The wind actually died down in the third and we played some really good tennis then.

I don't know if you win that match a couple years ago.
I definitely know that I wouldn't have won that match a couple years ago.

But the fact that you got that first title in Charlottesville just a year ago, has that changed the way you approach finals now?
I took a different approach in Charlottesville last year. I have many friends that go to the University of Virginia, but I was staying by myself during the tournament and was in a hotel without other players. It was a boring week, but it worked for me. No distractions and just bouncing between the courts and the hotel. I've kind of done the same thing here in Tiburon. Just relaxing and not going out. It's working for me.

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You're sitting here sipping a beer after a long week and you mentioned you've been enjoying the red wine during the tournament. The pressure doesn't seem to be getting to you anymore and it's freeing you up to just relax on the court.
I feel like once you get to the end of the year, everyone copes with it in different ways. Some people want to get more professional and do more in the gym. For me, that would just wear me out. I'm still going to the gym and doing everything I need to, but luckily I've been last match of the day all week. When I wake up, I was doing the right things for a few hours before my match and then get ready. That's what works for me. I don't see why not.

2019 Challenger Title Leaders

Player No. of Titles
Ricardas Berankis
4
Tommy Paul
3
Mikael Ymer
3
Emil Ruusuvuori
3
Pablo Andujar
3
Alexander Bublik
3
Gianluca Mager
3
Andrej Martin
3
How do you structure the rest of the year now? With this title in the books, you essentially defended the points from Charlottesville.
That's something I need to have a conversation with my coach about. And my trainer. Just to see how my body is holding up. I've been feeling the back of my shoulder a bit this week. It's just tight playing in the cold weather.

I'm definitely going to play the ATPs in Stockholm and Vienna. I'll play the qualies there for sure. I want to stop the year early and take a lot of time off.

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/tiburon-2019-tommy-paul

[Damian]

07.10.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 79

[arti]

2019 w liczbach:

Ranking: 90
Bilans meczów: 2-4
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 0
Zarobki: $255,912

[arti]

In first-round action, American qualifier Tommy Paul won 82 per cent of his first-serve points (27/33) to ease past Slovenian Aljaz Bedene 6-4, 6-4. The 22-year-old Paul broke into the Top 100 of the FedEx ATP Rankings last September on the back of winning three ATP Challenger Tour titles and earning his first ATP Masters 1000 victory in Montreal. Next up for him is Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas.

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[Barty]

Paul, With Courier's Former Coach, Ready To Make Good On Potential

Spoiler:

2015 Roland Garros boys champion off to a good start in Adelaide
Don't misunderstand him: Tommy Paul is happy, thrilled even for his friends and fellow Americans Taylor Fritz, Reilly Opelka and Frances Tiafoe, all of whom cracked the Top 40 and won ATP Tour titles before the age of 23.

As a boy, Paul crisscrossed the globe for junior tournaments with them and competed for junior Grand Slam titles against them. All four turned professional in 2015.

But five years later, as the aforementioned trio looks to win their second ATP Tour titles and perhaps crack the Top 20 in 2020, he thinks it's past time they had reason to applaud him.

He's happy for their success, but more than that, he's motivated by their achievements and wants to match or pass his counterparts. Having spent years trying to make it to the ATP Tour, Paul feels he's ready to make it on the ATP Tour this season.

He has a new attitude, a new coach and an enhanced sense of urgency that now is the time for him to make good on the potential that he showed as one of the world's best junior players just a few years ago.

“We all try and motivate each other. Everyone is happy for everyone when we do well,” Paul told ATPTour.com in Adelaide. “I'm sure when I start doing better they're going to be happy for me. I've had a lot of time to be happy for them, though, you know?”



In 2015, the four young Americans were essentially even. He beat Taylor Fritz in the Roland Garros junior boys final to become only the sixth American to win the title and, a few months later, lost in three sets to Fritz in the US Open junior boys championship.

Two years later, in August 2017, Paul beat No. 17 Lucas Pouille, No. 21 Gilles Muller and had three match points against then-No. 5 Kei Nishikori for a place in the Citi Open semi-finals in Washington, D.C.

Paul, so it seemed, was arriving on the ATP Tour. But he's fluctuated since, reaching No. 151 in the FedEx ATP Rankings in 2017 but falling back down to No. 204 as recently as April 2019. Last May, in another high point, Paul was a few points away from taking a two-sets-to-one-lead against Dominic Thiem at Roland Garros.

“He's shown flashes of brilliance,” said new coach Brad Stine, who helped Jim Courier reach No. 1 years ago and most recently took Kevin Anderson to the Wimbledon final and a new career-high of No. 5.

Now, however, Paul and Stine think he's at ATP Tour level to stay. The American, No. 90 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, cracked the Top 100 last year on the back of three ATP Challenger Tour titles. On Tuesday at the Adelaide International, he beat Aljaz Bedene for his first win of 2020.

Paul next faces Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas for a place in the quarter-finals, which would be his first at tour-level since his near-miss against Nishikori in 2017.

“He can play, it's just getting over the hump a little bit,” Stine told ATPTour.com. “I think timing wise, he's more mentally, emotionally prepared right now to make the sacrifices that you need to make to be a more successful tennis player than what he's been so far.”


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To Stine, that means becoming a more disciplined player on and off the court and cleaning up old habits. Within their first week of working together, just after the 2019 US Open, Stine gave Paul a list of 11 things that he needed to adjust, eliminate or add to his game, and all were technically oriented.

One item: Stop sliding to forehands – on hard courts and clay courts – with a closed stance. Paul had practised that particular bad habit for years and his only option from that position was a squash-style forehand. His friends and opponents were all aware of the fundamental error as well.

“First of all, it's wrong. Second of all, it doesn't create the ability to actually hit a good shot. And third, you're going to hurt yourself,” Stine remembers telling Paul.

The 22-year-old didn't argue or come up with a list of reasons why it might work; he said: “OK, I'm going to stop it.”

About four weeks later, during his run to the Tiburon Challenger title, Paul had eradicated himself of the bad habit.

But other questionable choices remain. Against Bedene in Adelaide, Paul was serving at 6-4, 2-2, 30/40. His wide serve opened up the court, and Paul had a sitting forehand to get to deuce. But he tried to hit a jumping forehand and shanked it.

Paul, however, broke back the next game and advanced 6-4, 6-4. But his shot selection on that particular point was a topic of their post-match discussion.

“Just come in and take that ball normal. You probably got a 98 per cent chance of executing. Do it the way you did it you probably have a 50 per cent chance of executing,” Stine said.

Paul is working on becoming more disciplined. Injuries have been a roadblock to more consistent success, and he admits he lacked discipline as a junior and early on in his pro career.

Now, however, he goes to the gym on a regular basis to stretch and improve his flexibility with his hips and ankles – he never used to go to the gym during tournaments. He also travels with a trainer more often, spends more time with the ATP physiotherapists and spends more time warming up and cooling down.



But he won't change everything about him. Paul still has fun with his friends and still plays basketball. “I still do all the things that people tell me not to do, just because that's kind of my personality,” Paul said.

“But along with doing all that stuff, I spend a little bit more time on my body and make sure that I'm taking care of my body off the court.”

Stine wouldn't have it any other way. The coach who helped Courier go from No. 25 to No. 1 and win four Grand Slam titles has learned that all players perform better on the court if they're pleased off the court. He wants to see Paul enjoy that combination as well.

“One of the things I've said from the start is that I'm not trying to take the fun out of it for him; I want him to enjoy himself. I want him to have fun on the practice court, but at the same time be focused on the things that we're trying to accomplish,” Stine said.

“He's been really, really good about that. Off-season was phenomenal with him. I was really impressed with his work ethic and attitude coming to the court every day.”

It's the kind of compromise and give and take that can be the hallmark of long-term relationships, on and off the court, and that's what Paul hopes he's starting with Stine. The 22-year-old has the end of his career – and Stine's – in mind.

“He gets my personality pretty well, and I think he has a lot of fun working with me, and I think I have a lot of fun working with him. He gives me my freedom,” Paul said. “I hope me and him go for the rest of my career. I hope we go until the end, and I am his last project. I think that'd be a good way to end it for both of us.”

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[DUN I LOVE]

Brad Stine, ten sam, który pomógł Kevinkowi osiągnąć finał Wimbledonu. Rekordowy ranking kwestią czasu.

[arti]

American qualifier Tommy Paul continued his dream run with a dominant 6-1, 6-2 win over Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas. The 22-year-old, who currently sits at a career-high FedEx ATP Ranking of No. 90, is through to his first tour-level quarter-final since 2017 Washington. He'll take on Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who defeated fellow Spaniard Jaume Munar 7-6(3), 6-3.

"I feel like I've played this well, just not at the right times," Paul said. "I've played this well at some ATP Challenger Tour events, just the timing is working out pretty good right now. Hopefully I can keep playing well.”

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[Barty]

Jeden z kandydatów na porządny progres w tym roku, szczególnie pod okiem nowego trenera.

[DUN I LOVE]

Jeden z kandydatów na porządny progres w tym roku, szczególnie pod okiem nowego trenera.

Ćwiartka w Adelajdzie już jest. Widzę to dokładnie tak samo. Top-50 w zasięgu.

[Damian]

Qualifier City: Harris, Paul Reach Adelaide Semi-finals

Spoiler:

Rublev maintains unbeaten streak on Thursday
Lloyd Harris sports a tattoo on his left forearm that reads, “Keep dreaming, keep believing no goal is unreachable.” The South African qualifier has plenty of belief at the Adelaide International, continuing his inspired run on Thursday with a 6-3, 6-3 upset over fourth-seeded Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta to reach the semi-finals.

Harris, No. 91 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, racked up nine break points and converted three. He dropped just seven points on serve to prevail in 67 minutes. Harris matched his best tour-level result when he advanced to the semi-finals as a lucky loser last year in Chengdu.

Adelaide is guaranteed to have a player move into their first ATP Tour final when Harris meets fellow 22-year-old qualifier Tommy Paul. The American moved into his maiden tour-level semi-final with a convincing 6-3, 6-4 victory against Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Paul broke into the Top 100 last year on the back of winning three ATP Challenger Tour titles and his first ATP Masters 1000 match in Montreal.

Third seed Andrey Rublev kept up his winning ways by holding off Brit Daniel Evans 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. The Russian moved to 6-0 this season after capturing his third ATP Tour title last week in Doha (d. Moutet), pushing him inside the Top 20 of the ATP Rankings for the first time.

Awaiting him in the semi-finals is second-seeded #NextGenATP Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime or Aussie wild card Alex Bolt.

Murray/Skupski Save 1 M.P. To Advance
Jamie Murray/Neal Skupski came out on top in a wild 6-3, 1-6, 13-11 quarter-final against Jurgen Melzer/Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Murray/Skupski saved a match point at 10/11 in the Match Tie-break before prevailing in one hour and 20 minutes. Next up for the British pair are fourth seeds Ivan Dodig/Filip Polasek.

Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury encountered few problems in their 6-4, 6-3 victory against Wesley Koolhof/Nikola Mektic. They’ll take on Maximo Gonzalez/Fabrice Martin for a place in the final.

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[Kamileki]

ATP Adelajda SF:

77 Philipp Kohlschreiber 700
78 Tommy Paul 696
79 Lloyd Harris 686

[arti]

Tommy Paul (USA)

The 22-year-old Paul is finally putting it all together. After enjoying a dominant 2019 campaign, the American launched the new decade with a first ATP Tour semi-final appearance in Adelaide, not dropping a set en route to the last four.

Up to No. 90 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, Paul is hoping his Challenger days are behind him after appearing in his first Australian Open main draw. He opens against Leonardo Mayer on Monday and could face 18th seed Grigor Dimitrov in the second round.

One year ago, the North Carolina native was sitting outside the Top 200 and unable to get through qualifying in Melbourne. What a difference 12 months make. In fact, it was in April that Paul was at No. 204 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, but that would spark a sensational surge and newfound belief in the American.

Of all players with at least 30 Challenger matches played in 2019, no one had fewer losses than Paul. He posted a staggering 30-5 record and finished in second place among win percentage leaders (.857), only behind Ricardas Berankis (.889).

Behind a mature approach and more determined attitude, the 22-year-old stepped up under pressure. A first clay-court title in Sarasota was followed by victories in New Haven and Tiburon. It was in New Haven that Paul cracked the Top 100 for the first time, eventually peaking at No. 79 in the ATP Rankings.

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[Kamileki]