Lmao at "I think Milos Raonic is the epitome of everything that is wrong with tennis press conferences. He's so good at giving this set of really bland answers that he almost never says anything of interest" from the podcast.

I feel like I asked this before but… LeBron is actually somehow underrated right?

http://www.tennisabstract.c… discussion here at the beginning about French Open favourites. They haven't mentioned Svitolina yet, surprisingly.

Wild prediction but I think he has a decent shot to break through and win Wimbledon or the US Open this year. If he keeps up the level of play from Indian Wells and Miami and if Novak and Murray are still underperforming, it's hard not to see him having a real good shot.

Clay is his weakest surface right?

Oh, I definitely agree with you. I'm not saying he should be ranked ahead of them, to be clear. I think ELO has it right that he's about the 8th best player in the world. I do expect him to rise a little bit. If he keeps up his level of play from Indian Wells and Miami, I'd be willing to put him as high as 5th, only…

I haven't been successful. :( Oh well

And this, in turn, impedes their ability to gain points because the quality of their competition is not understood by the system.

And the rankings messes matches and makes things more difficult for top players in the early rounds. Hence at Indian Wells, you had Novak losing to Kyrgios in the fourth round while Jack Sock was playing Malek Jaziri.

Yeah, it's just that it's really apparent, even without looking at ELO, that Kyrgios isn't the 19th best player in the world right now. His recent performance on hard court would probably situate him in the top 5 right now, and I'd probably put him 3rd. Not saying he's better than Murray or Djokovic; just that his…

The issue here isn’t just luck, it’s the limitation of the ATP ranking system. No one really thinks that del Potro entered the tournament as the 31st favorite, or that Kyrgios came in as the 15th. No set of rankings is perfect, but at the moment, the official rankings do a particularly poor job of reflecting the…

Yeah, I'm trying to find it now actually.

Yeah, that makes sense. She had better win percentages in 2013 and 2015 but tougher competition in 2002, I guess.

I would think the argument for Federer here would be that he's the best hard court and, presumably, grass court player of all-time by these measures. Novak is only superior on clay.

I was thinking the same thing but she had a really dominant 2002.

Love that Kyrgios is peaking btw and already top 10 here.

It's also really weird to see that Federer "peaked" at a younger age than either Nadal, Djokovic, or Murray.

He expanded the ELO rating lead a little bit since that actually, reaching his peak in the 2016 season before hitting his current "slump" http://tennisabstract.com/r…

Yeah, she'll have to be up there as well. Will be interesting to see what happens against Muguruza tomorrow. I wish I could watch it. It's frustrating that women's tennis doesn't show on TV here outside of the slams.

She's #2 in the 2017 points race right now and could be #1 by the end of the Italian Open: http://live-tennis.eu/en/wt…