He joined a long list of seeded stars who exited the All England Club in the early rounds, including Alexander Zverev<\/a>, Jack Draper<\/a>, and Holger Rune<\/a>.<\/p>\n After his lengthy break away from the sport, Paul<\/a> said there has been a \u2018crazy\u2019 change on the ATP<\/a> Tour recently. <\/p>\n Speaking to Tennis Channel after his victory, he said: \u201cWhat\u2019s crazy is I feel like everyone can do everything now.<\/p>\n \u201c[Jannik] Sinner is coming in [to the net] so much more now, I mean, you can tell it\u2019s something that he\u2019s been working on. <\/p>\n \u201cIf he gets to the point where he\u2019s perfecting that, it\u2019s going to be really scary. It\u2019s already scary, but that\u2019s a real complete player. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd then with Ben [Shelton], I mean, I feel like he\u2019s always been an aggressive player. What I noticed in the tournament last week [the Canadian Open] was, I mean, he was really extending points.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was slicing his back in a ton. He was drawing his opponents forward. I mean, in the match versus Khachanov, it was incredible to me, like the amount of short slices he did to bring him into the net.<\/p>\n \u201cBen\u2019s always been pretty good at the net, but he\u2019s gotten a lot better. I mean, it\u2019s really great to see. I love watching that kind of tennis.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, even [Jenson] Brooksby, Brooksby does a lot of the short slices and gets to the net and just makes it uncomfortable. I like that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n Tommy Paul\u2019s chance to gain points at the Cincinnati Open<\/p>\n Paul is currently ranked 16th in the world, but now has a chance to close in on the top ten at the Cincinnati Open. <\/p>\n At the tournament last year, the American crashed out of the Masters 1000 in his opening matchup, suffering defeat to Flavio Cobolli over three sets. <\/p>\n With his win over Martinez, he has already surpassed his finish in 2024, and can now pick up some valuable points. <\/p>\n His next opponent is Adrian Mannarino, against whom he has a head-to-head record of 1-1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Paul played his first tour-level match in over a month and secured a victory in his opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,99,428,52463],"class_list":{"0":"post-73373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-tommy-paul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tommy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229274512-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Daniel Kopatsch\/Getty ImagesTommy Paul gives his verdict on the current state of the ATP Tour<\/p>\n