After Glorious Wimbledon, Eubanks Is Hungry More of the Same

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday July 12, 2023

Chris Eubanks dazzled Wimbledon for ten days, bursting onto the sports activities’ grandest stage and going from a relative unknown to a reputation on the tip of each tennis followers’ tongue.

It was stunning to look at the hard-hitting American, who entered the primary draw at SW19 with a 2-8 lifetime file on the majors, play with such conviction on his Wimbledon debut. Each as soon as of energy and precision in his sport appeared to crystallize as he mowed down his competitors, using the excessive of notching his maiden ATP title in Mallorca and parlaying his confidence into viral wins over No.12-seeded Cameron Norrie and No.5-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas.

He was the final American man standing at Wimbledon, however his run got here to an finish in 5 units on Wednesday by the hands of Daniil Medvedev, who served lights out down the stretch to lastly tame the 27-year-old Eubanks.

Now that it’s over, how does the previous Georgia Tech Yellowjacket really feel about his future within the males’s sport?

Sanguine, in a phrase.

“I’ve performed a number of the finest gamers on this planet,” he mentioned. “I’ve seen how my sport stacks up towards them, how I can disrupt them, how I can frustrate them. I feel it simply offers me added confidence in my potential that I do know I can compete with a number of the finest gamers on this planet, whereas perhaps I didn’t absolutely know or imagine that earlier than.”

Eubanks, who’s as much as No.31 within the ATP reside rankings, is taking the positives, and there are many them.

Over the course of his nine-match profitable streak and career-best Grand Slam efficiency he has confirmed that he can hold with the ATP’s finest. Now all he has to do is show that he has endurance.

What a trip 👏

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“I feel this week, these two or three weeks have been full of positives,” he mentioned. “I didn’t win at present. I’m upset about it. It’s unlucky for me. However I feel I confirmed quite a lot of optimistic indicators that I can take shifting ahead, so I’m okay with that.

“I feel it’s going to encourage me to proceed to benefit from the course of that I’ve been doing, particularly over the previous yr I might say. Simply proceed to coach more durable. It’s tremendous cliché, but it surely’s like I wish to proceed to really feel this sense.”

Eubanks must be seeded on the US Open with that rating, and he’ll enter Masters 1000 attracts for some time with out having to fuss over taking part in qualifying. It’s been an important few weeks for Eubanks, and better of all, he’s intent on ensuring that his upward pattern continues.

“I feel that if I can proceed to have the enjoyment that I had on court docket for these previous three weeks, proceed to work as onerous as I have been doing over the previous yr, 12 months, I feel good issues are going to occur and it is type of going to maintain itself,” he mentioned, including: “I am most likely having probably the most enjoyable I’ve ever had in taking part in tennis. I’ll proceed to attempt to trip this momentum out. We will see the place it takes me.”