Tommy Paul has had several ups and downs this season, which was interrupted well in advance due to an injury that experts and insiders have not yet understood. The American player has played only 14 tournaments this year and has not set foot on the court for an official match since the defeat against Alexander Bublik at the US Open at the end of the summer.
Although he has had several stops related to his body, he reached his best ranking as world number 8 in 2025 and his goal is to continue to improve especially away from the hard courts. Tommy has made some progress from that point of view, if you consider that he reached the semifinals at the Rome Masters 1000 (winning a set against former world number 1 Jannik Sinner) and the quarterfinals at Roland Garros (where he was literally demolished by the two-time champion of this tournament Carlitos Alcaraz).
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Tommy only played14 tournaments
In a recent interview with 'Tennis Channel', his coach Brad Stine finally broke silence on Paul's current shape: I was in Florida a couple of weeks ago for six days. The training was great, everything was really good, so we are very hopeful that we are going to have a healthy Tommy Paul for 2026. It has been a really, really weird year for us. I think all the guys in our team feel the same way about that.
He also added: He makes the quarters in the Australian Open, and that was a really good start to the year. We felt he was playing really good tennis. We felt he had a very, very good chance to win that match in the quarterfinals, and then we went to Acapulco, and Tommy gets crazy sick. He was literally throwing up over a balcony railing and comes back home, and that illness lingered.
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We get to Indian Wells, and he played pretty well, and then he played an absolute aberration of a match against Daniil Medvedev. It was a weird, crazy match, that was one of the first times where he basically did not show up for the match mentally or emotionally. He got beaten really badly. I think he was embarrassed. He sent a text to all the team members apologizing and basically saying thats not who we are and thats not how I want to represent us, which was very nice of him, but it was just a weird deal.
