Baseline Awards: The hot shot of the year
In a season full of contenders, one in particular from Pablo Cuev
While Diego Schwartzman came in at No. 1 on the countdown of hot shots from 2017, Baseline could't help but give Pablo Cuevas special recognition.
From Agniezska Radwanska’s excellence on display in January…
…to Schwartzman’s behind-the-back brilliance in November…
...the 2017 season was full of hot shots on both the ATP and WTA tours.
In Miami, the women put on a shot-making display:
Jack Sock was pulling off tricks like this all year long:
And no story that mentions “hot shots” should go without something from Dustin Brown:
However, one shot tops them all:
In a quarterfinal match in Madrid, Alexander Zverev took on veteran Pablo Cuevas and captured the first set. Early in the second, a cat-and-mouse point ended with the no-looking winner of the year.
Cuevas would rally to defeat Zverev, and reach the first ATP Masters 1000 semi of his career. It was a career milestone that was made all the more memorable by a shot for the ages.
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