ATP Stock Up, Stock Down (Feb 2026 edition)

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2:07month of this 2026 season now, of course, and this edition of the show going to focus on the ATP tour and it's just worth reminding all of you tennis fans to start this episode that the month of February is a fascinating month. In the broader context of every season, we don't have a 1000 level event on the calendar and given the rat race that is the opening month, the grind that is the sunshine swing in the third month of the season, always a fascinating decision for every top player in the universe. What events do I choose to go play? Do I stick around in the Middle East for Dubai? For Doha? Do I head to Europe for some indoor hardcore action Rotterdam Montpellier? Do I head to the States, Delray, Dallas, Acapoco, or do you head down to South America and get some clay court reps under your belt before the sunshine swing begins? It's a fascinating decision for every top player to make, of course, given all the options

3:10available. You certainly see a wide dispersal of talent across the globe in the month of February. And thus, again, as it relates to the top of the men's tennis world, not a ton of movement in the month of February, and of course, to hear a snapshot of where things currently sit at the top of the men's tennis world, all you got to do is scroll down on your mini break podcast feed. You can hear my top 10 ATP players heading into the sunshine swing perform the same exercise for the women also did a WTA stock up, stock down earlier today, again, all of that content available here on the mini break podcast feed. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss out on anything we've already produced here in 2026. And of course, everything we will continue to produce moving forward as well, busy times ahead. Again, I'm in LA. Colin matches for tennis channel had straight Phoenix after that. We've got tons of active college coverage over the course of this weekend as well. Make sure you don't miss out on anything happening across levels in the tennis world.

4:12Make sure you are subscribed not only to this podcast, but that crack rackets YouTube channel, the great shot podcast feed, the crack the interviews feed our crack rackets Instagram. We've got a lot of good content on various different platforms. Again, just want to make sure all of you tennis fans are aware of them. Of course, also want to make sure you're aware of the continued support we get from our friends at the Laurel Springs School to learn more about why they continue to rank amongst the top private online schooling options in the country. Visit Laurel Springs dot com today, Laurel Springs, a proud partner of the mini break podcast feed. Again, as it relates to stock up, stock down ATP addition here February 2026, not a ton of movement at the top of the tennis world, right? I know Yannick Sinner did something he hasn't done much of over the last two and a half years. He lost a match to someone not named Carlos Alcarez. That happened in February. Of course, accordingly, how do you not have Jakob Menshik on a list like this? In fact, you know what?

5:12Let's make Menshik where we start today's stock up, stock down category because certainly you look for the 20-year-old from the Czech Republic. He's already beaten Novak Djokovic in a 1000 level final and if you accomplish that before turning 21 years old. I don't care how old Novak Djokovic is, it's a moment that all of us stop and take notice of. Of course, Jakob Menshik has had multiple moments like that already in his young career. You go all the way back to that 2023 US Open where, of course, he qualifies into the main draw, makes the third round, gets knocked out by Taylor Fritz very comfortably, but at that time, again, a teenager who was what's still just 17, turning 18 years old. I know that's when I first started to pay attention, of course, you look for him after that, what he does in the 2024 season qualifies again, wins around in Australia, makes the final in Doha right out of the gates to start that 2024, obviously finished out strong

6:13third round to US Open, quarter finals at the Shanghai Masters last year, takes things to another level. And you could see it from the start. Quarter finals Brisbane, quarter finals Auckland, third round Australian Open, yes, of course loses Indian Wells match two, but that in goes in place, a 125K in that in between week. It's a good win over Tomas Martin, etch of area there. Of course, then he goes on to win Miami, beats Indian Wells champion Jack Draper, in draper's opening match of the tournament, gets wins over Arthur Fees, Taylor Fritz, and then, of course, Jokovic in the final. You know, again, you have a run like that. How much higher can your stock really rise if you're the 20-year-old Jakob Menshik short of, I don't know, making your first major championship? And of course, look, this is a guy who last season could have still played the next gen finals. Of course, opted out of playing that event, but he already had a 1,000 level career. And he was still eligible for that event, an event that, obviously, Learner Tien was the only top 100 player who ended up playing last season's field, but that speaks to the

7:17season he had in his standing in the pecking order of young rising prospects. And, look, I mean, now you look at how he started this season. Slow United Cup, it was fascinating because he was unbelievable in his first match victory over Casparoud, then loses two in, excuse me, four in one to demon, two in six to ZZU Berks. Well, how does he back that up, wins the title in Auckland, slows the only guy that first month of the season. It felt like who could slow down Cepi Baez, round of 16, of course, in Australia, gets wins over his fellow young ascending prospects in a Rafa Houdar. I keep Ethan Quinn on that list as well as, of course, it's worth noting Ethan Quinn's still, yes, up to 71 in the world, but still just 21 years old, like, again, for men chick EQ, Rafa Houdar, by age, those are his peers, not the pierce he's now earned in the top 10 players in the world with his current success, like that just speaks to how far ahead of the trajectory he is, you know, again, to have beaten his peers, as soundly

8:24as he did, to have that Miami run. And now to have victory over Yannick Center, 7, 6, 2, 6, 6, 3, win, we're again, first two sets. Yackup Munchik didn't break Yannick Center's serve. He was undeterred. He was flawless on serve in the opening set. Hit his backhand as well as I've ever seen him hit it. And then he breaks center after dropping a 6, 2, 2nd set, you think, okay, course correction, here comes Yannick Center doing his thing. He breaks center right out of the gates in set number 3. Gets it insurance break to end it as well in the backhand line return. He hit that match, flawless, I mean, just listen to these numbers. Then he lost the Greeks for the three sets with Roons and Numbers, but his last seven matches, his first serve win percentage, 75.4, 80, 81.7. 81.1, 97.3 against hercots, 82.8 against Popperin, 68.1 against Greek Spur.

9:24He's eclipsed 80% on the first serve percentage in nine of the, an 80% excuse me, first serve win percentage in nine of the 17 matches. He's played this season. That's elite fucking serving. I mean, again, he's held serve only 82.9% of the time, which seems low given that number but it's because his first serve percentage is under 60% for the season, playing a little bigger, but finding that much more success. I mean, look, the 20 year olds got the firepower. He's always, the weapons have been obvious the way he can push that inside out forehand outside the alley with the sort of pace he generates, turns on it inside in his backhand so concise, the way he drives through it, his comfort level moving forward, again, the way he imposes his will upon opponents and not vice versa. Now he's got just another signature victory to add to the mix again, his win over Yonic Sinner. You look, by the way, career had to have. He's now 1-0 against Yonic Sinner.

10:26He is 1-1 against Novak Djokovic. He's yet to face Carlos Alcaraz. But it's a, you know, again, Fonseca, it felt like coming out of last season, especially after Basil, after everything, it was just like, okay, Fonseca is the guy. And that's who everyone else is chasing. And it's fair to ask, is that still the case? Like are we sure everyone's chasing Joao or Joao just more part of the pack of the rest of this really fun crop of exciting young up and coming prospects? And look, I think that we're asking that question, that's why I'm going to go to Joao Fonseca next, the 19 year old, it's a little bit of a stock down because certainly again coming out of the Australian open, all of us, I mean, I, again, I'm not going to speak for everyone. I know I was having conversations with people in my, as I like to refer to it, the tennis intelligentsia. Certainly even people outside of that, but in my circle of, as I like to say, ball watchers and ball knowers, whose opinion I trust on these sorts of things, and we were having

11:27learner T.N. Vershoewal Fonseca Conversation. Like again, I have a club tennis group chat of five of my closest friends from my time in club tennis. And I really love the dispersal of grades, like there's people who were, there's one person who was a fifth year grad student, a master student, I want to get he graduated undergrad in four years, fifth year was a master's program, he would want me to say that. But a fifth year's master student all the way to a kid who was a freshman when I was a senior, like it's a great, it's just speaks to how this sport connects us and keeps us connected. Again, that's in a year spread. I'll just say their names, they both, I love both of them like brothers, I know they wouldn't mind. I know my parents, well, my parents don't know one of them. Again, how should Kandabi's three years younger than me who find, again, our national championship singles player. I finally got to be a team with him. We'd wanted to be on a team together our whole lives and we would have titled all the way to the fifth year Eric Fandale who, if my mom knew better, she would love like one of her boys. She just doesn't know him well enough because he was a little bit older.

12:31Anyways, they're both in a group chat with a couple others as well. I'm not going to name the group chat, but you know if you're in it and like this was the conversation we were having so firmly, sorry for that tangent, but that's the conversation you know I was on a five hour flight today. That's the conversation we're having was Fonseca versus TN, like who would you rather have? Learners, this killer who just knows how to be one shot better than you has a counter for everything you want to throw at him to serve. It feels like every time I watch it gets a little bit bigger versus a Fonseca who is just raw, untapped, unfiltered firepower. Everything he does, it just takes the racket out of opponents hands when he's firing on all cylinders. And I said it when I got to seeing him person in his run to the Phoenix title last year. He's got the ass like that's part of the game. You go to enough of these. That's where the firepower is generated from the caboose is the is the engine that makes the body go and to watch Fonseca spring into his return and just the fire, like again it's

13:33the angle of his return positioning it's you're supposed to return in an athletic position right? Well holy fucking shit is Fonseca you're just like yeah, I hope that's what I look like when I spring out in my step and you know again step into a return of serve like how concise both wings are on the ground stroke how effortless the power is, the technique so pure just like we've seen both strikers like Fonseca's before intuitively it just makes sense how you all Fonseca's going to go about finding success. Well of course what's the biggest piece to the power tennis? You got to have the time to implement those weapons and certainly given the current pace of modern men's tennis more and more players all of them capable of producing with this sort of all of them not only capable of producing but possessing this sort of weaponry that they do at the elite level you have to have the movement to back it I forget if it was was it Stan Smith who came on our show last year and said he thinks movement is the single most important trade in modern tennis I mean it's hard to argue with that fact

14:35because everyone can hit the ball so well it's just do you have time to do it and how many different positions on the court can you do it from that's where Fonseca struggles the 19 year old is just not where he needs to be physically to impose with his sort of weaponry with the sort of consistency that we know he possesses because we've seen it in flashes but to do that consistently not just one week but let's say 20 weeks out of the year as he rises into his mid 20s I think we can juice if not 20 events out of him a year we'll say a solid 16 events a year but that's a lot of tennis that's including the slams over 20 weeks of really good tennis you got to play I don't think his body's ready for that obviously he came into the season injured as well you saw that in the movement I thought all all South American play court swing long I mean look he placed now 100 to be look at a 75 in the third against the big certain lefty that's really not that bad of a loss oh and by the way in that match he went two hours 24 minutes against Boosey two hours 26 and was a six foreign the third loss I just don't

15:41think he had his legs underneath him the way he needed to down the home stretch and it is very power centric it's one speed again he's missing long all the eights just you know when a point goes astray when a streak goes astray it's because the unforced errors leak and it reminds me of the old sabalanka adage of she used to give us for every 10 jaw dropping minutes she'd give us there would be six follow-up minutes where you're like what the fuck are you doing like why did you miss that folks like us kind of in that range it's not quite 10 six it's more like seven three where you're just like again seven minutes we're like yeah this is the prospect everyone's chasing aesthetically you know can we he's moving well he has time he's working you around the court versus the three minutes we're like oh looks a little slow looks a little heavy leg like I don't know if he's going to have time to do what he needs to do and wow he's just now he's slapping instead of massage you know working his way into points but I was I learned

16:41early like and I mean maybe not maybe I should have held my ground on the CT pass takes but I do to help my ground relatively check the tape over the last decade of CT pass I was never the biggest on CT pass I thought he was a little stiff as a mover now when he was at the peaks of his powers obviously 23 24 years old especially on the clay he turned that movement into a strength things turned out just fine Andre Ruble of another one the pace was so obvious but I was like yeah but so stiff and it's so one speed well he rode that one speed to five consecutive two or finals and I really do think for show out fun second the floor feels like Andre Ruble of but Andre Ruble of his a hell of an athlete man and turned himself into that athlete with his physicality and all of it those are the questions you have for learner away I just don't think you do uh for show out excuse me in a way you just don't for learner like it learner is going to be this good on hard courts forever uh menchick is gonna be this good he's gonna have those weapons to ride for a really long time so does Fonseca and yet it just feels like physically he is further behind

17:45than those guys are in competing with the best of the best in being at the speed you need to be to do a point in point out match in match out so in that sense he's stocked down given it feels like it's like a shfion tech situation where I still hold the gush fion tech in as high of regard as I ever did the difference is the rest that there's just others in the field now I hold with that sort of highly high regard um it's the same thing about Fonseca if you want to sell your Fonseca start stock you got to take it right here now will that Fonseca stock ultimately end up world number one high as I think all of us were dreaming of after Phoenix I don't know it's gonna be really hard to compete with center and alcharez over the next decade um but as he if you're telling me the over under is still 0.5 to her finals for sure Fonseca yes I know he's 19 years old I know it's been a slow start to his season I'll take the over throw it I mean I don't bet because I'm just not a gambler it's not my thing but I like odds as quantifiable data points to examine

18:46things you throw on kalshi you throw on what's the other one um let's see the other one I got polymarket I think that's the other one I don't know god I let me tell you ah he's not gonna listen to this he's never listened to an episode of the podcast ever and he might have listened to a minute of the fatter one I know how mad he gets when he hears my voice he's like shut the fuck up when Eric gruskin was dropping polymarket and kalshi stuff and look I'm gonna I'm gonna brag on behalf of Eric gruskin Harvard Business School grad shout out to my older brother um like when he was just eyes like oh no like is this what because he runs in those eastern intellectual circles are the east coast uh the coastal elitism runs strong in his veins in the best sense I mean it in a loving way holds you to the highest standards iron sharpens iron two types of people competitors and losers which do you want to be anyways now that I found out the eastern uh intellectuals are using prediction markets as like

19:48god I'm not doing bad however you throw up on second point five over under two or finals point five like I'll take the over do that right now anyways he is stock down relatively in terms of well I don't know if his price came down probably came down a little bit and certainly others have risen course uh alongside of him as well so wanted to do a little fun second talk because I feel like I haven't at this season and it was worth addressing as we go into obviously a pit of ittle sunshine swing by the way first match for fun second tricky one is got Rafael Coleman you know match number one calling you know it's been really good over the last what six months he wins that it'll take on a Karen Hatchnov who was up a set on Alcaraz a couple weeks ago Tommy Paul has been playing really good ball that's the two scenes he'd have to get through just to get to a round of 16 it ain't gonna be easy for y'all for a short fun second yet certainly if anyone's capable of doing it a Tim for men's chick boy if it's a first round match up with Giron in southern california that is a brutal round one match up he can get through that

20:52chillich svita divide of itch fokina by the way I'm on the svita chillich call tomorrow night with my guy former NTA singles champion Bradley clon um it's a much more doable draw for y'all could mention if he can get through that oh god willing by the way Ben Shelton's pathway to to a quarter final opelka Quinn winner then probably learner tn then probably y'all could venture fuck yeah love that love that we get to see Ben tested because Ben answers tests in the biggest moment still two young guys stock up stock down always and I on the young guys right particularly as we head towards another marquee event uh who else what I throw on this list of players stock up stock down again a relatively tame second month of the season talked about him a little bit already um I know but I would throw Felix Ojiroly a scene let's do one more stock up here before we'll get to two stock down and then I got I got four more names and then a bunch of

21:53honorable mentions Felix we're gonna do really fast could have been honorable mentions I talked about him so much already but he just righted the ship so thoroughly uh with the run to the Montpellier title run to the Rotterdam final due by semi-finals his two losses were demon and the best version of deniel medvedev I got no problems with either of them yeah he played horribly in the Rotterdam final served under 50% of his first serves you're not going to beat Alex Dimana or even on an indoor hardcore if you're making fewer than 50% of your first serves but given how disciplined you know you went one in two in the opening month of the season uh what he racked up in one in two in the opening month of the season 11 uh excuse me yeah one in two in the opening month of the season 11 in two in month number two that's writing the ship for Felix who despite losing around one of the Australian open is back up to eighth in the points race and I know it's only two months but I'm just saying for a guy who came obviously on so strong to end last year a little bit of a hiccup but how many times have we seen three steps forward two steps back

22:54this time it was three steps forward two steps back but then two steps forward back ahead to get back to where we were and now look I listed this out yesterday when I talked about the top 10 so I'm not repeating it again Felix has been bad historically at Indian Wells has had a moment in Miami but it was back in 2019 hasn't had a moment there in half a decade the I don't know if the sunshine swing is more consequential for any player in my mind than Felix Osir Ali has seen maybe Medvedev just because it's like as always is the Medvedev run over and every 1000 level event that passes certainly we get closer to that end date for a guy who's going into the Hall of Fame on his hardcore success Felix is is is too on that list of most important Indian Wells because you just it cannot be another two steps back with these back-to-back hardcore 1000 level events before we head out on to the clay where obviously even the best version of Felix Osir Ali has seen falls behind as some of his peers in this portion of the pack but he's put himself in a position

23:57for that for that I don't want to say dominant that feels a little hyperbolic but for that just sound sound sunshine swing performance and I'm feeling confident in it so I wanted to go Felix Osir Ali has seen next with my stock up category but talked about him a bunch yesterday so if you want to hear more on Felix go check out our top our my ATP top 10 heading into the sunshine swing couple quick stockdown you know I never love to linger on the stockdown I'm a glass half full sort of guy Mateo Baratini's 2015 over these last 52 weeks he's 11 and four in first round matches he's five and six in second matches of the events you look for him this year obviously missed the opening month he loses to Capriva and Buenos Aires Busy and Rio Nava in Santiago it's just not what you would have expected from him certainly to bounce back here this year and look obviously I was there in 2024 for the start of the bounce back which was so sound obviously he

25:04starts off his comeback that 2024 season in Phoenix I was there front row seat to him making the final of that event he goes from there to win the title in Marrakesh make another final in Stuttgart on the grass plays a fantastic match round two because of his ranking with sinner at Wimbledon again Winshtod Winskitt's fuel back to back in the summer it just felt like okay 36 and 13 in 2024 Mateo Baratini is back that's of course coming after a 2023 season where he played just 26 just 26 total matches um again then you go back then you go to 2025 he played most of the year uh not really actually from Wimbledon then played from Wimbledon to Hung Jo so he missed the entire North American hard court swing and he still got 42 39 matches in 22 and 17 overall last year found some success down the home stretch at Davis Cup but you know again didn't advance

26:07past the quarter finals of any event last year now he did make a Miami quarter final but that was really his only notable moment otherwise on the calendar he missed Roland Garros he missed the US open lost match one to my check five sets at Wimbledon he was coming off of a poor 2025 and obviously the reason we didn't get the peaks and the primes of Mateo Baratini he's modern you know again Milo Sareonich took the big serving top eight contender mantle but oftentimes banged up mantle took that baton and said here you go Mateo you take this for the 2020s and sadly that's what happened like that's probably the best comp for Mateo Baratini ooh that's a good one I'm gonna send that to a group chat right now is the best comp for Mateo Baratini's career Milo Sareonich I don't know it's really interesting obviously both of them have a Wimbledon final as well believe the career high is slightly higher for Milo Sareonich you look for Baratini I'm curious what's his

27:07history at the Masters has he ever won a Masters 1000 event I don't think he has has he ever made a final of a Masters 1000 I don't think he has either he's been here's a fascinating number career from Mateo Baratini at the Masters 34 and 30 it should be better than that in his career he has only made the quarter finals of four different Masters events he's only made two different semi-finals and again he's never he's made one final excuse me 2021 Madrid loses in that final three sets to Sasha's Varev I'm gonna do a further deep dive on that Baratini Reynitch comparison but you just look for Mateo Baratini again obviously it's been a struggle for him to start this season the break percentage has fallen off a cliff the first serve isn't as dominant as it once was the second serve when percentage has struggled the double fault percentage not an issue but it's certainly as ticked up a little bit again he was served forehand blitz through you you knew what he

28:10was gonna do it doesn't matter he was gonna beat you with it anyways and yeah you could try and attack his backhand slice but that predictability of where you were gonna play was ultimately especially on slower high bouncing surfaces a benefit because it allowed him to find forehand's that much more successfully I mean for someone who was so physical and to have to carry that much weight and play with that much weight and move that weight around the court as frequently as he did it was always a question how long would that body hold up and unfortunately again just injuries have dropped this if what should have been the peaks of his powers I mean again his last three fully healthy seasons 42 and 13 32 and 12 32 and 13 those were all in the 2020s it's not quite Delpo again Delpo gave the baton to Reynitch Reynitch took some of the you know polished that baton up a little bit said we're not gonna go that bad and then Baratini did a little I mean again he but he was like here Mateo your turn it's just so sad because the weapons were always there for

29:12Mateo Baratini you just have to wonder 66 in the world right now 29 years old is the window closed for Mateo Baratini to get back towards knocking on the door of the top of the tennis world gonna throw him in the stockdown category because it was a rough month certainly for him in that South American stretch um last up full stockdown and I'm not gonna beat down the bush too often here because I really I'm not like selling my stock I watched the matches I don't think Casper was that bad against sebi quarter in his quarter final loss I don't think he was that bad in his loss to wooie being either when he went up and broke wooie being for that uh to go up a break in the second set I thought all right here he goes but then he seated the break immediately back in the next service came to woo um and then all the sudden again like just woo played two brilliant tie breaks and exploited the Casper route back and within each of them I mean there's been some lost strange losses here again losing to marijon wooie being three sets to a sebi quarter who hadn't

30:12gotten a win like that in forever four sets to Shelton no shame in that game at the Australian open I don't think Casper's playing that poorly again he's ranked top 25 in both hold and break percentage one of I think like 10 guys you can say that about and yet again another guy who just feels like you look at these last 14 months the window that's been opened go be the fourth best player in the world just when you thought he might be grabbing that mantle during the clay court season he gets injured at the Roland Garros seeds that mantle to Lorenzo Musetti who certainly earned it with his performance during last year's clay court stretch really hasn't had any yeah wins a title in Stockholm beats Korda chill at shop of all of them but it's not a bad title run in October but like we shouldn't be celebrating two 50 titles for a guy with two slam finals a guy with multiple tour finals appearances a guy who's been ranked two in the world and is still just 27 years old again 13 in the world 15 by elo rating and it feels right like it feels like he is

31:15on the outside it feels like he's certainly closer to well that's a fascinating question Casper closer to being the 20th best player in the world or the fourth best player in the world is anyone really the fourth best player in the world right now isn't anyone competing for the fourth best player in the world oftentimes looking more like the 20th best player in the world right now like other than demon who really doesn't give you that many I mean it's just an interesting thought exercise again stock down the race for the number four stock up the race to be the fourth best player because no one's grabbed it but that's what still makes it just so fucking intriguing for me Casper should be on this list it's time for Casper to have a massive sunshine swing you look at where Casper is in the draw by the way for each of these I mentioned out I'm on the Baratini call tomorrow Baratini taking on spider excuse me Baratini taking on Manorino tomorrow he wins that just a date with Sasha Sverif who of course he did beat early in Monte Carlo last year for Casper 13th seed look it's a really good draw he really it's a really

32:19good first week he should get through Shepchenko or Shimabakuro after that Nava Borgia Servasho all same tier of player in my mind tricky but he'll be a favorite after that it's Alcaraz so maybe not the most advantageous drug and that's your round of 16 opponent but go get to the fucking round of 16 go win a set against Carlos make that a match that's what I need to see out of Casper Rude and then last but not least just to give him an individual shout out here shout out Arthur Feast first matches back since July of last year we played two matches in Canada and he was competitive in all of them yeah loses match one of Rotterdam it was to top seed an eventual champ demon hour in a really fun six and three match yeah lost the tight one in Montpellier to Phoenix four and two do you know how tough it is third match back indoor hard court and you have to go against Felix's Serva Beats Menchek after the center win in Doha makes a final in his third event back yeah

33:24got blitzed by Carlos Alcaraz but he's already back up to 14th by elo rating he looked good in his first weeks back and keep in mind it's a massive stretch coming up here now for Arthur Feast Arthur Feast has a ton of points to defend over the next couple of months in Arthur Feast who just again your reminder of what he was able to do during this stretch last season quarter finals of course for him at Indian Wells last year quarter finals Miami last year quarter finals Monte Carlo in the event after that semi finals barcelona after that during that stretch he beat Sverav Rublev C.T. Paz on Clay Tiafo Musetti come on now like that was when it was like okay and by the way how will do you think Arthur Feast is in your head just guess the answer out loud if you said anything that wasn't 21 sorry you're wrong doesn't turn 22 until June of this year don't forget about Arthur Feast back injuries always make me nervous and anytime an injury keeps you out that long

34:25of course you're apprehensive what is this player gonna look like on return look pretty damn good did Arthur Feast on return stock up it's good to have him back in the mix and you talk about who's the biggest threat to sinner alcaraz he was knocking on that door of the conversation with hit his two months or six weeks stretch last year sunshine swing through the start no two months stretch March and April of last season hopefully we get that version of Feast again because certainly the tour is more fun when we have that version last but not least run you through rapid fire addition here stock up and I got a bunch of honorable mentions medvedev two titles one city took long enough caboli one title acapoco hard courts welcome back I could have done a full thing on Thomas Martin Atchivary discount casper root or Kirkland brand as I used to call it um guys just good been a while since he had a run like that again semi as week one title in Rio talked about our dairy guys a stud considered adding him to my top 10 last year martin dom big serving lefty

35:31he was the guy of his american prospect class forever 12 13 14 15 years old was a little one dimensional needed a second to accolade himself physically he has and lefty with the big serve it's always a nice foundation to build a pond so martin on the list greek spore when he fires he fires sadly out of indian wells Tommy corda tiafo nova kipsen spider all americans who I thought had really good months kipsen's fight of course breaking to the top 100 terrence atman finally getting some tour level victories the big swing and lefty we know what he can be at his best commonwong is gonna make his if did he make his top 100 debut yet uh commonwong right now in the live rankings 123 it's win not if for the 21 year old this year and then shout out my guy on a confidant had to give him a shout out as well finals obviously last week in back into the top 70 34 years old don't sleep on the former usc all american last but at least limited stockdown

36:34who be her cots just because his stock was top 12 soaring again after week one in united cup obviously it's not any longer her cots really couldn't really struggled to get off the ground i suppose at all in that month of february knocked out match one by martin dom match one and montpellier match one by booblick and rotterdam match one by men chick and do by they're all tight score lines but yeah i didn't have an own three resume on my card so certainly have to put that on the list and then look i still love them i'm not selling any of my positions it's been a tough start to gap the allos 2024 season six season the allo two and seven overall losses to walton vavassori Gustavo heida in davis cup like it's it got it has to pick things up here at indian wells fascinated by his first round match up with matia baluchia that's a really fun one that's everything as it relates to the men's stock up stock down february 2026 edition now that's

37:38all that's left to do let's roll out the balls let's get this sunshine swing underway of course i will be back tomorrow not only to offer some day one reflections will do them and singles women singles draw preview for each of you as well we got a little time right before the top seeds get in play we can break down the quarters who am i watching for most what are who who is this each of these events most consequential four given how the draws have breaking down uh broken down still want to try and answer all those questions so you know what specifically to watch for but hopefully now you got a better sense of the field as we get ready for again one of my favorite months on the tennis calendar each and every week uh each and every year excuse me season by the way starting tomorrow hopefully i'll better better control of my sentences as i'm going to be on the call for our friends at tennis channel again i'm going to take the handoff from leaf shriver in the midst of that baritone manorino round one then the night cap myself bk Bradley clon going to be on the call for zaxx fight averse mayor and chillich uh the only reason i get that opportunity again because all

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