Carlos Alcaraz lost 7-6,6-1. This is a scoreline that has seldom been seen in the recent past. But befittingly, the player on the other side of the net was Jannik Sinner. With this win the Sinner-Alcaraz head-to-head is 4-4. Sinner stands out as one of the few players on the...

The mens singles finals of the US Open 2023 lasted 3 hours and 17 minutes and was nothing short of a slugfest. Novak Djokovic had a simple strategy for the match. Put one more ball back in play! And preferably to the Medvedev Backhand! Interestingly, throughout the match, both players...

Prior to yesterday’s match, the IBM SlamTracker provided Daniil Medvedev with a meagre 19% likelihood of win. The scoreline definitely shows something to the contrary. Medvedev delivered an emphatic performance to claim a spot in the Finals against Novak Djokovic. As he mentioned in the post-match interview, he had to...

It is a well known fact that the casino or “the house” always wins in gambling. The casino is always the winner and not the gambler. Why is this so? It is because of a statistical factor known as the “house edge”. The house always has an edge of one...