Every year, thousands of professional tennis players grind it out on the Futures and Challenger tours with a single dream: breaking into the top 100. Outside the elite bubble, life is a constant struggle. Players ranked 600 and beyond deal with unpredictable schedules, lonely travel, and razor-thin margins that can make or break a career. Most lack big sponsorships or steady incomes, so each match carries financial and emotional weight. In this unforgiving landscape, technica

There are players whose careers are shaped by their game and there are players whose careers are shaped by their minds. Stefanos Tsitsipas enters 2026 belonging to the second group, the rarest and most complicated one. The tennis is there, luminous and occasionally transcendent, the experience is undeniable, the athletic base is strong, the weapons are world-class but the pattern that has defined his last seasons is not technical, tactical or physical it is internal. This is

At NEXUS, we analyse what rankings never reveal: the inner architecture that determines whether a player survives pressure, converts fear into identity, and turns uncertainty into momentum . This article is a deep psychological breakdown of two players currently outside the top 100 who hold the mental traits required to explode in 2026: Borna Ćorić and   Mark Lajal .   Borna Ćorić Borna’s story is a psychological goldmine: years of expectations, deep injuries, comebacks, setb

Maria Sakkari’s career is a paradox. Physically, she’s an elite athlete, powerful, fast, and supremely fit. Technically, she has the...