Everything We Learned From Wimbledon This Year…. (2024 Analysis)

so much happened at Wimbledon just a couple weeks ago I mean there were the big story lines injuries and upsets that caught all of us fans by surprise and even with the videos I got out covering the current big three in tennis there were still several stories and players I wanted to analyze but just couldn't get to which is why I made this video it's not a Wimbledon recap but rather a bunch of mini analysis on the players that we didn't get to talk about during the tournament which I'm calling the Lessons Learned at Wimbledon what did we learn from some of the biggest players this year at Wimbledon how did they play in this tournament and what do I think about them going forward for the remainder of the Season I'm going to start off with our favorite Americans guys 82 consecutive Grand Slams have gone by since an American man last won a major title the last man to do it Andy rodic at the 2003 US Open but while I wasn't exactly expecting any American man to win Wimbledon Taylor Fritz's fourth round win over Sasha and Tommy Paul winning queens and then being up a set in a break against alcaraz in the quarterfinal kind of gave me a flicker of hope at least for the moment and it all got me wondering what if the expectations were just too high for Fritz he's now 0 and4 in Grand Slam quarterfinals and missed out on a big opportunity to reach his first Grand Slam semi-final and apart from his forehand letting him down and contributing to the majority of his 55 unforced errors against MTI britz also paid the price for not having enough variation in his game as especially at the net this was totally on display when we saw points like this but looking at the tournament as a whole I think we can take away many positives from Fritz's outing his composure and calmness in the pressure moments particularly against Sasha was impressive as he bagged his fourth top 10 win of the Year Fritz was 0 and9 against top five players in Grand Slams before his match against Sasha but now with the monkey off his back I expect forit to enter the top 10 pretty soon taking a look at Shelton I'll admit I'm still sold on him despite his relative inexperience on other surface outside of the hardcourts having won three five Setters before falling to Center in the fourth round there aren't many doubts about Shelton's mentality on the biggest stages he's only one of 10 American men to reach the fourth rounder better in at least three Majors before turning 22 and what's even more interesting to me is that Shelton tends to find his best tennis at slams winning 71 % of his matches compared to only 56% in other tournaments Big Ben was made for the big stage and it's one of the many reasons why I think he might win a slam in the future am I being delusional maybe but I have reasons why and oh did you see that 53 mph Ace in his second round match against Lloyd Harris that's the fastest serve ever recorded at Wimbledon I'm sure the Shelton fans loved that one for Tommy Paul I'm also upbeat about him alongside Shelton Paul was coming right off the back of the Queen's title entering Wimbledon he was on a nine- match win streak on grass and after he was up a set in a break against alarz it looked like he was going to pull off an incredible upset but perhaps he might have been guilty of trying to do too much against caritos and in reality it's really hard to blame him his coach Brad Stein has worked on developing Paul's attacking game specifically with his transition to net and his footwork just continues to get better and better in fact for many fans Tommy Paul is currently the best American men's tennis player is that a debatable point H and then we have Francis tifo who actually came closest to beating alcaraz it was crazy because tfo's season has been on a downward trajectory and according to him he was losing to clowns he then suffered an MCL strain at queens and had to retire so I didn't have any hopes of him coming to Wimbledon but big fo's performance fighting from two sets down against Mato arnaldi and then his display against alcaraz was unbelievable tifo says he hasn't been happy playing tennis lately but going into the hardcourt swing I expect him to start putting up more and more of a fight against opponents for Seb Corda he was kicked out in the first round by pericard and at this point what do you guys think is missing from cord's game on the women's side Emma Navarro's straight sets win over Coco gof in the round of 16 was super impressive although she felt that Jasmine palini in her first Grand Slam quarterfinal it's safe to say that Emma is Cut From a Different Cloth her brand of tennis is definitely a bit unorthodox her forehand is incredibly smooth and she has the return game to take down anyone for someone only in her second full year on the tour Emma's mentality is Rock Solid and she's not afraid to take risks she was nine of nine on net approach points against golf as she bagged her second top five win of the Season at this point there's no doubt to me that she has top 10 potential with Emma breaking into the top 15 five American women were in the top 15 for the first time since 2004 but there was more to Wimbledon than the overperforming Americans some players preferred to tear through the draw rather quietly and one of those guys was Alex deor the demon took down Archer feasts in four sets to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinal for the first time in his career boosting his tally to 8- one on Grass this season demor only dropped one set all week and we were eager to see how his match against jokovic would play out but we wouldn't be so lucky because he injured something in his hip and had to retire I still think we have more to see from the demon so I'll leave the book open on him for another time injuries were a major concern at Wimbledon this year Arena sabalenka withdrew from the tournament on the first day due to a shoulder injury she'd been dealing with via Azarenka Then followed suit also withdrawing from the tournament with the shoulder injury herself and then there was Hubert herkos getting injured against arur F and grigor dimitrov getting injured in the fourth round against meddev grigor would later reveal that he suffered an abductor tear in his left leg so we expect him to be out for a while Alexander's verev also had some discomfort against Fritz after he overextended his KNE during a slip and fall and a third round win over cam Nori so about these injuries was it just a mere coincidence or was it due to something else I know it rained a lot during the tournament and that the grass might have been a little bit slick but we could also point to The Hectic clay season and the transition to Grass being difficult for many players there might be another reason I'm missing so please let me know in the comments okay back to one of the biggest performers of the tournament what is the best way to describe Lorenzo mti's game a one-handed backhand player without an elite serve and zip on the forehand or an extremely crafty and very talented player who's won a couple of big matches and shown that he's a very good grasscourt player musetti was in great control of his backhand slice the entire tournament and he was very frugal giving away points only eight unforced errors in four sets against pericard in the fourth round more often than not we saw him come out on top in those cat and mouse points pretty much the entire tournament if musti manages to add more weight behind his shots in addition to his craftiness it's safe to say that he'll eventually break the glass ceiling and might even Force his way into the top 10 in the coming Seasons I plan to do a deep dive on denil Medvedev soon because I feel like I've been sleeping on him actually medy hasn't won a title in more than a year now and he's been losing to both cner and alcaraz his matchup against alcaraz just doesn't really favor him stylistically speaking alcarez has the perfect game to beat meddev most of the time and I don't think that danil's US Open win over alcarez should negate this fact however I was totally Blown Away seeing medy stick it out to snap a five match losing streak against C in a 4-Hour Thriller personally I don't think Center's physical struggles should take anything away from that performance because it was incredible to watch one thing I have noticed about Med's game though is that he's been able to find more confidence in his forehand I don't have the numbers exactly for his forehand speed but I think it's pretty obvious that there's been some extra zip on it we've definitely seen a significant uptick in the aggression off that Wing this year but the serve still isn't at the level that it was in 2021 for what it's worth Medvedev is the only player to have beaten yanic CER Novak jovic and Carlos alcaraz at Grand Slams and his semi-final appearance at Wimbledon made it the ninth time he's reached the semis of a grand slam nobody born in the 1990s has been able to do that for these reasons you can never quite count out medv when it comes to spoiling the party if you're expecting a CER alcaraz match trust meddev to spoil the party if you're looking for a jokovic Carlos match also trust meddev to throw a wrench in the plans he's N9 and 26 against players ranked number 2 3 4 and five but has a seven and five record against players ranked number one how can you explain that going into the hardcourt summer medv is surely going to be a top three Contender for the US Open title in fact he's made the US Open final three times in 5 years that's got to count for something Yanik sner became the youngest man to reach three consecutive Wimbledon quarterfinals since Rafa Nadal in 2008 but his loss to denil kind of reopens some questions about his durability you see seven of yanic Sinner's last eight losses at Grand Slams have been in five sets against the Russian sinner complained about dizziness and of course that had some impact on the match but the big question is this do you think that Center's durability is going to be a problem for him long term the Italian might be number one in the rankings but alcaraz is the favorite for every slam right now in my opinion not to worry I made separate videos on Sinners and alcaraz's respective Wimbledon runs and what they mean for us as fans so be sure to check them out if you haven't seen them already speaking of alcaraz he became just the sixth male player in open era history to win the channel slam and the youngest man to successfully defend the Wimbledon singles title since Boris Becker in 1986 and add it to the fact that he became the youngest player to win the channel Slam at 21 years old and the first non- big3 member to win multiple majors in a season literally since Andre agasse in 1999 alcaraz's achievements have led to more and more comparisons with the big three tennis fans just can't help themselves with the comparisons who's better at 21 Carlos or Rafa take a look at their achievements at the same age and let me know what you think without going into the X's and O's and also not taking anything away from car I think we really shouldn't be making some comparisons for instance Rafa at caritos age had to deal with prime Roger Federer who absolutely dominated everyone for the better part of a decade but also trying to avoid the loophole of recency bias I think Carlos might be the most complete 21-year-old I've ever seen the guy has every shot in the book and he literally does everything I already made a video about jokovic where I talked about the Wimbledon final and why alcaraz was able to defeat the goat in straight sets so if you missed out on that one be sure to check it out as well Switching gears let's talk about a few other top players ahead of the tournament Zev said that this year's Wimbledon was the most open that it had been in the last 20 years I mean he even backed himself for the title the first time that I really feel like I'm I'm here to to be a competitor to maybe win the title well that didn't quite happen as a matter of fact history ended up repeating itself for Zev because for the third time in Grand Slams this season he l lost a match in five sets after having a clear lead in Australia he lost to Medvedev from two sets up at the French Open final he lost to alcaras after leading two sets to one this time he lost to Taylor Fritz after also being up two sets honestly I wasn't expecting much from Sasha because he's never made it past the fourth round at Wimbledon in his entire career but let's throw the analysis out the window for a moment because all the attention right now is on his left knee Sasha says he has a bone edema and tear in the capsule of his knee a potentially Serious injury that could take some time to fully heal so with that said zev's summer hard court season success will certainly depend on his Fitness but there's another top player whose problems aren't necessarily physical Andre rublev lost to world number 122 Francisco komana in the first round at Wimbledon to his credit komana was serving lights out as he racked up 21 Aces his backhand slice also troubled rublev a lot getting your first ever win on tour against a top 10 player is one heck of a start but how did rublev respond hitting himself with a racket more than half a dozen times with rublev also just losing to Thiago Austine tante as the top seed in bashad he's now at risk of falling outside the top 10 the Russians woes continue but are they more self-inflicted than caused by opponents is it time for some soul searching I feel like alcaraz is fully deserving of every bit of Praise he gets because of his proficiency on all surfaces in the past it was normal even for a top player to spend a few years climatizing to new surfaces like grass in fact some top players never even managed to be good on the surface at all but alcaras is special he's learned how to play on all surfaces at such a young age unfortunately we can't say the same thing about many of the other top players that are a lot older than him one player that looks like he has almost no interest in grass is Casper Roode he lost to Fabio fognini in four sets in the second round to give Fabio his first win against a top 10 player at Wimbledon since 2010 10 at least he did create one of the highlights of the tournament with this stunning backhand passing shot against bolt in the first round Stephano sitas holar Runa and a couple other top guys didn't have great tournaments either but someone who did have a great tournament is a certain guy who's almost as tall as John Isner Giovani impi pericard became the fifth lucky loser in the open era to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon in the men's singles draw I think we all know what the Frenchman's game is about an enormous serve that looks like it's his Birthright after taking down Seb Corda in the first round pericard took care of business against nishioka in the second round before getting past Rus viori in the third however the crafty Lorenzo musti found a way to get past the Frenchman's enormous talent in the fourth round how did pericard earn his first main draw win the answer is 51 Aces pericard became just the seventh man in history to hit more than 50 aces in a match in his first three matches alone pericard hit over 100 Aces at 6' 8 in tall the 20-year-old Frenchman is the tallest man inside the top 100 and he'll be looking to dominate with his serve on grass and the hardcourts the Olympics could be Andy Murray's final tournament we now know that he'll also play doubles with Dan Evans in Paris the three-time Grand Slam champ was honored on Center Court following his doubles match alongside his brother Jamie and all the stars were present to watch it Roger jokovic John mackenro Martina navat alova Leighton hwit and Tim Henman just to name a few for some reason the Press decided to ask everyone what they thought about five set matches and whether or not they should be done away with at Majors Alexander zov says don't get rid of them the most difficult task in our sport is winning a grand slam because of the five set matches and in my opinion there's no way that we should ever get rid of that meddev says he'd rather not play best of five if you ask me I would prefer three sets just that's just my personal opinion five sets is much tougher for the body so can get more injuries alcaraz says he prefers five Setters because they give him more chances to come back in a match Novak jokovic doesn't want it changed either but is open to some adjustments like making the earlier rounds thre Setters and then we have a couple of other takes here we all know the toll best of five matches take on the body that's probably why they're only reserved for the grand slams in my opinion it'll be weird if every single tournament becomes best of three sets in a way you could argue that it Waters down some of the historical parts of the sport because it then becomes a lot easier for anyone to win a slam thre Setters definitely increase the likelihood of upsets but I understand that players are concerned about their health and there are other intangibles to consider too but I'm eager to hear your thoughts on if slams should be converted from best of five to best of three switching Focus to the women's tour Lulu Sun crafted one of the stories of the Year by becoming the first woman from New Zealand to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinal in the open era she then lost to Donna veic who then became the first Croatian woman to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals since Mirana luch in 1999 but perhaps the biggest shocker or maybe not depending on how you see it was eish fanch losing to ulia putina we all know that grass was EA's worst surface but for someone who was on a 21 match win streak I thought she was going to make a deep run this time and to be honest I even had EGA as one of my favorites for the title in the end it was a horrible prediction Putin SAA mixed things up to disrupt EA's Rhythm and got a well-deserved win but you could also argue that IGA self-destructed many times while trying to force the action and smother her opponent the main culprit ig's forehand shvan committed 46 errors and the common theme was the forehand spraying those errors as renowned tennis coach Craig oasi puts it the forehand problems for shiant are multifaceted extreme Western grip is great for adding Spin To The Ball but it's not great for blocking your way out of trouble which is a pretty essential skill on grass shant doesn't seem to possess a true blocking forehand at all it seems like she only has one gear on that side and can't really modify or adapt the swing to the toughness of the shot there is so much wrist and whip in her forehand which is great for attacking tennis but might make her struggle a bit on the defense EGA had a different Outlook though after her loss she says it came down to this this reason I I know what I did wrong after r g i didn't really rest properly I'm not going to make this mistake again what are your thoughts about 's problems on grass do you think it came down to fatigue or is there an intrinsic problem with her game that's preventing her from being dominant on grass in the final we saw Jasmine pini's life-changing year reach New Heights as she became the first Italian woman to reach the final of two different Grand Slams before last month palini hadn't even won a match at Wimbledon and her opponent Kiko was having a terrible year herself before wimy so she would have fancied her chances in the final but it wasn't meant to be here's a look at each player's path to the final for me it was cova's forehand that was the star of the show her stroke technique and efficiency was a joy to watch it wasn't necessarily the racket head speed it had more to do with the sharp angles she was creating and Pini herself not really having enough length to work with so ketova ended up dictating many of the points off her forehand take a look at one of them to her credit Pini tried to change the Dynamics in the second set by playing more to cova's backhand and it did change the game a lot but she ultimately fell just short and the unpredictability at Wimbledon continued Barbara ketova became the eighth different ladies singles Champion over the past eight editions of the tournament now that's the longest streak of unique Champions at Wimbledon in the open era for men or women no doubt cova's title win will quiet any doubts about her grand slam title hall because two slams isn't a fluke and with a return to the top 10 this is definitely a turning point in her season speaking of rankings palini became only the third Italian woman in history to reach the top five elsewhere Emma raducanu re-entered the top 100 after an impressive fourth round showing if you enjoyed this video you'll most likely enjoy some of the deep Dives we did on the channel last week going deeper into these three guys games at Wimbledon also I'm hard at work on merch designs for all of you and I can't wait to share them here on the channel the meddev Deep dive is also coming soon so if you haven't already subscribe to the channel and turn on post notifications that way you know right when the video comes out until next time keep swinging