Talent and impact tennis; US Open, scales players
View(s):In Men’s tennis, read and heard names in the coming year will be Jannick Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Felix Aliassime and Alex de Minaur. They are the US Open semi-finalists. The US Open, the final Grand Slam of the year, is the reflection of the global professional tennis. ATP took up their own affairs in the 1970s, which is all about player wellbeing. For ATP and WTA, money and player performances are the critical linking factors. Today, a model for many sports.
At the end of the first week of US Open 2025, the survivors of gruelling event are equipped and strong. The draw for the event had new names old names and famed mingled. In tennis a fact is, stronger personality matters more than skill. [Football, a tough game is 2x45 minutes in an encounter. Many tennis matches at this US Open went past third hour].
In the art of war, the body must fall for the head to roll. All modern sports without time limitation has this principle embodied. Longest Singles matches in tennis has approached sixth hour. For these no training will suffice. Fought with mind over matter principle and perfected skill support. After a tough match, a straight sleep of 14 hours is common. This is how body can overcome that level of fatigue. Difficult to believe this without experiencing first hand.
WTA list
The players in the second week of US Open 2025, a day and night event would have gone through disturbed sleep syndrome in one form or other. Winner takes it all!
US Open 2025 Women’s semi-final lineup has Aryna Sabalenka, Naomi Osaka, Jessica Pegula and Amanda Anisimova. Their shot selection skills tactically supported with quick-access mental support.
US Open 2025 players survived every type of challenge. Ball speed topping 100mph, rallies of 30 shots, match duration of over four hours, day and night match times, partisan spectatorship and all other. Modern tennis names them as challenges. While day light is easy, many matches started at night with indoor lighting. While an ace or a winner gives one point, the bulk of the points won and lost in long rallies and it is the general norm in tennis. Survival is more personality based once skills acquired. Our island state falls short in this delivery.
The Men’s side of the event had many had five sets of a match in 2025 US Open. The surviving semi-finalists Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Felix Aliassime, and Novak Djokovic will show what tennis can be to the world.
Tennis regions
In big tennis events regardless of the gender, Czech Republic, formerly known as Czechoslovakia, features very strong. Their tennis goes back to the kingdom days through communist era to democracy, did not run short of tennis players. Oldest I have seen is Jaruslav Drobny in Colombo, a player of the 1940s and 1950s. The current lot of their Women and Men have won Grand Slams and feature in final rounds. Djokovic, a Slav, belongs to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal period. At present, he is chasing his 25th Grand Slam title at 35 plus age. A man with performance, drama, injuries, massages and time off and titles. In Women too, Czech Republic had Martina Navratilova to present day Barbora Krejcikova. Czech Republic has produced performers in a string.
Comfort zone factor
Often as spectators want to know why some players not changing tactics when loosing. Change in shot selection demands comfort of the player inner clock. Can be done and some do that. Often it can disturb the inner comfort of players. When that happens, competitive perspective breaks down. US Open of 2025 placed many into this discomfort. The salient was in the match between two former Women US Open title winners Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff.
Gauff lost this match in straight sets. Osaka, a Japanese citizen residing in USA, went through many training outfits before coming to present entourage. Compared to her previous years, 2025 has been good for her. US Open surface is her home surface, so it is to Gauff. As to how one can equate this outcome has no straight answer.
For Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada, this year has been the comeback time. His current ATP ranking is 27. He is a former Top 10 player. Injury time kept him away from limelight. This has been the best ranking year for him. Good tactician and a cool cat who appeared first in the Canadian Spring good five years ago. Leyla Fernandez, Bianca Andreescu, Denis Shapavalov and Emma Raducanu came out of that Canadian development spell. All of them had prominent performances at the US Open of 2025. The trigger player for this spell of Canadian development was Milos Raonic. His performance gave Canada the necessary boost to venture into serious player development and talent search.
All nations step up development with a trigger performance. Some Eastern European countries has had continual trigger players.
–George Paldano, European and Asian competition player; Coach German Tennis Federation; National coach Brunei and Sri Lanka; Davis Cup, Federation Cup coach, coached ATP, WTA and ITF ranked players in Europe and Asia; WhatsApp +94775448880-