{"id":74184,"date":"2026-09-04T03:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/74184\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:54:36","slug":"what-is-tennis-iq-top-stars-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/74184\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Tennis IQ? Top Stars Weigh In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"TextLinkButton_underline__PMbvH TextLinkButton_button__6iB_U RichText_inlineLink__ltbLd\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bnpparibasopen.com\/players\/detail\/daniil-medvedev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, considered by many to be a tennis savant, grapples with the meaning of the ubiquitous term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s very vague,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause I feel like tennis IQ is very close to mental strength, but at the same time it&#8217;s completely different things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concept has several components, and it\u2019s a personal term. Everybody has their own definition. But what are the components?<\/p>\n<p>At its heart, it\u2019s about competing, says Joel Drucker, well-known tennis journalist and executive editor of Tennisplayer.net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of all, I think it&#8217;s understanding how to compete,\u201d he said. \u201cSeeing that winning is the desired outcome that you can&#8217;t control, competing is a process you can always control. It\u2019s how you compete, and how you engage, and how you study the opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all heard pundits gush about someone\u2019s tennis IQ \u2014 players who can use the court as a canvas, directing their opponents through a series of traps before swooping in to make the kill.<\/p>\n<p>But have we really ever fully comprehended the meaning of the term?<\/p>\n<p>Gemini, by Google, has.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennis IQ refers to a player&#8217;s strategic intelligence and their ability to make the right decisions under pressure,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Is the bot correct?<\/p>\n<p>No offense to artificial intelligence, but when you have 24-time major champion <a class=\"TextLinkButton_underline__PMbvH TextLinkButton_button__6iB_U RichText_inlineLink__ltbLd\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bnpparibasopen.com\/players\/detail\/novak-djokovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Novak Djokovic <\/a>at your disposal, wouldn\u2019t it be better to just query him?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s like a diligent, holistic, multi-disciplinary approach that really defines the IQ in the end,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, when you have a lot of shots in the arsenal on the court, then you feel more comfortable finding solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019re talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev, considered by many to be a tennis savant, grapples with the meaning of the ubiquitous term.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12875],"tags":[12883],"class_list":["post-74184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bnp-paribas","tag-bnp-paribas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}