Welcome to ESPN’s tennis contest for Wimbledon: Tennis Major Pick’em: New York!
What is it? It’s a free-to-play game, where you take a few minutes to answer a series of questions related to the upcoming tennis Grand Slam event, which starts on Monday, Aug. 29, and ends Sunday, Sept. 11. You can play against your friends, family and coworkers, while also trying to climb the overall leaderboard for a chance to win $1,000.
Listed below are the 13 questions you’ll need to answer in order to participate. Also included is some background information on each topic. I worked with the ESPN Stats and Information Group to supply some nuggets of info to help guide you through your decision-making process, but I did not offer up exactly where I landed on each question. Why? Well, we’re fantasy players, too, and we’re here to win.
Good luck!
1. Who will win the Men’s Singles Championship?
A) Stefanos Tsitsipas
B) Daniil Medvedev
C) Carlos Alcaraz
D) Any Other Player
Tsitsipas made the finals of the 2021 French Open, losing in five sets to Novak Djokovic, and has made four career major semifinals (one at the French Open, three at the Australian Open). Tsitsipas therefore has three semifnals appearances at hard court majors, but he’s never advanced beyond the third round at the US Open. He made the third round in Flushing in each of the last two years. He is 21-9 on hard courts this season, right in line with his career 65% win percentage on the surface that has been his second-most successful surface in his career (75% win percentage on clay).
Medvedev has made the finals in each of the last three hard court majors, including a victory in the 2021 US Open. The US Open has been Medvedev’s best major, with a win, a final and a semifinal appearance in the last three years. Medvedev is 71-14 on hard courts in the last two seasons.
Carlos Alcaraz is breaking out this season, with four titles and six finals appearances in three tournaments. He made the quarterfinals of the 2021 US Open in his first appearance, and matched that result at the French Open this season. Alcaraz won a Masters 1000 level tournament, the Miami Open, on hard courts this season.
The biggest name to watch outside of those mentioned is Rafael Nadal. Nadal didn’t play the US Open in 2020 or 2021, but won in 2019 and has won two of the last three US Opens in which he’s competed. Nadal is also an undefeated 19-0 in…
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