Carlos Alcaraz deploys a drop shot in roughly 16 percent of all rallies he plays and wins around 63 percent of those points. Both figures are the highest ever recorded at the elite level of professional tennis per Tennis Abstract. The comparison pool is not limited to current players. This is across the history of the sport for which reliable data exists, and nothing approaches it. The nearest historical parallel in terms of effectiveness is Rog…
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