Why this matters: Reviews both women’s semifinals and looks ahead to Saturday’s final between Sabalenka and Rybakina. The breakdown of what decided each semifinal is the part to watch before the final. Source: Intuitive Tennis (YouTube) More from the 2026 US Open: See all of GTN’s US Open coverage
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Why this matters: Recorded on the day of the women’s semifinals, with a read on the men’s half of the draw and why Zverev looked like the pick from there. A useful record of what the form guide said before the semifinals settled it. Source: Intuitive Tennis (YouTube) More from the 2026 US Open: See
Why this matters: Covers Zheng Qinwen, who reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier, and Zverev’s side of the men’s draw. Worth watching for how a player keeps turning matches around after losing the opening set. Source: Intuitive Tennis (YouTube) More from the 2026 US Open: See all of GTN’s US Open coverage
Making Sense of Zheng’s Comebacks | Zverev’s Final Destiny | 2026 US Open Day 9 Read More »
Why this matters: A 14-minute analysis of the five-set quarterfinal that finished at 3:33 a.m., the latest finish in US Open history. Watch it next to the official highlights on this site to see the same match twice, once for the shots and once for the patterns behind them. Source: Intuitive Tennis (YouTube) More from
Shelton Beats Alcaraz in Epic Match | 2026 US Open Day 10 Read More »
Why this matters: A tactical preview of both quarterfinal draws, recorded before any of them were played. The value for a player is the reasoning — each call names what the matchup turns on, and you can check those calls against the results. Source: Intuitive Tennis (YouTube) More from the 2026 US Open: See all
Can Shelton Beat Alcaraz? | Men’s & Women’s Quarterfinals Preview | 2026 US Open Day 8 Read More »
Every coaches’ room has this argument. It’s the wrong argument. Here’s where serve speed actually comes from — and what to coach instead. If you’ve spent any time around tennis coaches, you’ve heard the debate. Foot-up or foot-back. Pinpoint or platform. Somebody swears the pinpoint stance is the only way to get a high contact
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The serve is built on the court. But the body that survives ten thousand of them is built off it. Here’s a conversation I have with coaching colleagues more often than I’d like. A player’s serve plateaus, or their shoulder starts barking, and the whole fix-it conversation lives inside the swing — the toss, the
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Most coaches diagnose the serve where the problem shows up. The good ones diagnose it upstream, where the problem actually started. Here’s the mistake I made for years, and watch other coaches make every week: a player’s serve breaks down, and we go to work on the broken part. The contact looks late, so we
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If a player’s serve is short, weak, or sore, you’ve probably been watching the swing. Look at the toss instead. Half the serve problems on your court trace back to one bead on the wire — and it’s the second one, not the seventh. Here’s a pattern you’ve seen a hundred times. A player has
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Most tennis stats describe what happened — not why a player won. These five metrics are the ones that actually correlate with match outcomes across ATP and WTA data, and knowing them will change how you watch the game.
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