Week 40, 2025

ATP Events This Week: Shanghai 1000 Week 2

WTA Events This Week: Wuhan 1000 Week 1

• Gael Monfils’ Epic 2026 Retirement Promo

  More: A Very Worthy Toast to “Monfils’ Final Bow” from The Guardian.

• Pro Players Rank The Best Matches Of 2025 (So Far)

• A Monumental Induction Imminent For Newport 2026

  Gill’s Take: Nothing against the other nominees, but I wouldn’t mind Roger Federer getting the induction class to himself in 2026.

• Your Perception Of Djokovic’s Game Shouldn’t Be Stuck in 2015

  Why It’s Interesting: His return prowess has a legacy all on its own, but, in 2025, the data skews in a different direction.

  More In-House ATP: Tsitsipas on a reconfigured “sustainable” coaching relationship with his father.

• Roger Federer’s Unintentional Conspiracy Theory

  Why It’s Interesting: Alexander Zverev seemed to echo Roger Federer’s claim that tournament directors are catering conditions to maximize Sincaraz success. One of many topics broached in The Athletic’s Monday Tennis Briefing.

  More: Gill points out that Sinner and Alcaraz swept last year’s fastest events.

• FAA — Growing Up Inside The Game

  Why It’s Interesting: A decade after bursting onto the scene as one of tennis’s most promising juniors, Felix Auger-Aliassime (fka FAA) sits down with The Changeover Podcast to reflect on how fame, success, and expectation have shaped him, and why slowing down has made him a better player and person.

• Leaving You With Francis Tiafoe’s Bad Daps

On Monday Match Analysis, Gill is joined by former top-5 player Jimmy Arias to discuss the evolution of tennis and the modern game. One of the most fascinating things about tennis is how it has continued to change over the years. Gill thinks we’ve reached a point where it’s starting to become clear how 2020s tennis is going to be viewed as an evolution. It’s one thing looking at Sinner and Alcaraz- that’s only two players. It’s when you start considering: Fils, Rune, Lehecka, Fonseca, Cobolli, and Draper… not to to say they’re all the same. But you can start to see a prototype forming for the modern player of the mid to late 2020s.

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