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Shark Bites: Dr. Ivo's All Tie-break Matches

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by Greg Sharko

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28.09.2011

Karlovic© AFP/Getty ImagesKarlovic has a 3-0 record this season in all tie-break matches.

ATP statistics and information guru Greg Sharko looks at the numbers behind the stories on the ATP World Tour.

GOING THE DISTANCE...ALL TIE-BREAK MATCHES

Ivo Karlovic has played 16 matches in which all sets went to tie-breaks, most recently beating Philipp Petzschner 6-7(0), 7-6(2), 7-6(6) in Montreal. That's more than double the amount of triple tie-breaks played by any other pro, with the exception of Greg Rusedski, who did it nine times. Here are the players with at least five all tie-break matches (in best-of-three-set battles) in their careers:

PlayerTotalW-L
Ivo Karlovic 16 10-6
Greg Rusedski 9 7-2
Andy Roddick 7 5-2
Wayne Arthurs 7 1-6
Roger Federer 6 5-1
Kenneth Carlsen 6 3-3
Yevgeny Kafelnikov 5 5-0
Ivan Ljubicic 5 4-1
Kevin Curren 5 3-2 
Marc Rosset 5 3-2 
John Isner 5 2-3
Jan Siemerink 5 1-4


FIRST-TIME WINNERs BREAKTHROUGH

Florian Mayer became the ninth player to win his first ATP World Tour title this season, breaking through in his 140th career tournament. Here is a look at this year's first-time winners and how many tournaments it took before winning first title:

PlayerTournament PlayedAgeTitle
Milos Raonic 8th (read interview) 20  San Jose
Ivan Dodig 13th (read interview) 26  Zagreb
Ryan Sweeting  31st (read interview) 23  Houston
Kevin Anderson 38th (read interview) 24  Johannesburg
Pablo Andujar 38th (read interview) 25  Casablanca
Alexandr Dolgopolov 45th (read interview) 22  Umag
Robin Haase 55th (read interview) 24  Kitzbuehel
Florian Mayer 140th (read interview) 27  Bucharest
Andreas Seppi 174th (read interview) 27 Eastbourne


QUALIFYING LEADERS

It’s been almost two years since a qualifier won an ATP World Tour title (Sergiy Stakhovsky in St. Petersburg on Nov. 1, 2009). Julien Benneteau is the only qualifier to reach an ATP World Tour final this year, in Winston-Salem. Here are the qualifying leaders this season with their best result:

TeamNo.Best Result
Flavio Cipolla 7 2nd Rd. – Madrid
Michael Russell 6 QF – Memphis
Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6 2nd Rd. – Barcelona, Marseille, Estoril
Marinko Matosevic 6 2nd Rd. – Atlanta
Alejandro Falla 5 QF – Delray Beach
Ryan Sweeting 5 QF – Delray Beach
Alex Bogomolov Jr. 5 3rd Rd. – Cincinnati
Pere Riba 5 2nd Rd. – Madrid, Monte-Carlo, Nice


MATCH TIE-BREAK LEADERS (Top 10 teams by winning pct. order)

The duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes have the best Match Tie-break winning pct. this year (.818) among the Top 10 teams on the ATP World Tour:

TeamRankW-L (Pct.)
Mahesh Bhupathi & Leander Paes 4 9-2 (.818)
Michael Llodra & Nenad Zimonjic 2 10-4 (.714) 
Jurgen Melzer & Philipp Petzschner 5 5-3 (.625)
Robert Lindstedt & Horia Tecau 6 9-6 (.600)
John Isner & Sam Querrey 10 6-4 (.600)
Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan 1 7-7 (.500)
Max Mirnyi & Daniel Nestor 3 6-6 (.500)
Rohan Bopanna & Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 7 6-6 (.500)
Eric Butorac & Jean-Julien Rojer 9 3-8 (.273)
Mariusz Fyrstenberg & Marcin Matkowski 8 1-4 (.200)

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