Christopher Eubanks ties with Dusan Lajovic for most underdog wins in 2023 as full list revealed
Christopher Eubanks has been tied with Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic for sitting at the top of the list of underdog kings for 2023.
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(L-R) Dusan Lajovic and Christopher Eubanks. (credits: tennis.com, Mirror)
American tennis player Christopher Eubanks has been enjoying great success for the last few months. His incredible gameplay has surprised a lot of tennis fanatics, turning them into his followers.
Now that the season is finally coming to a close, several statistical facts are coming out, and one such statistic about players winning matches despite being underdogs in the match has been revealed.
Eubanks has been tied with Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic for sitting at the top of the list of underdog kings for 2023. Lajovic has been very influential this season, picking up wins in matches when the odds were completely against him. The biggest surprise that Lajovic pulled was against Novak Djokovic at the Srpska Open, a match where Lajovic only had 12% of winning the match.
This was the lowest win probability for a player in a match that he ultimately won in 2023. Lajovic went on to lift the title which was his second overall. Eubanks also had pulled some thrilling surprises mostly at the Wimbledon Championships.
In the second round, Eubanks only had a 24% chance of beating Cameron Norrie but did so easily, and then at the round of 16 stages, he ended up knocking down Stefanos Tsitsipas despite having a probability of 30%.
Who were amongst the other players on the list:
On the list released by the OptaAnalyst team, four more players need special mention callouts as well. American Marcos Giron and Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo were placed in third and fourth place on the list with 12 wins and 11 wins, respectively.
French stars Adrian Mannarino and Zhizhen Zhang were among the other players who pulled off 11 wins in matches where they were regarded as underdogs as well.
Player With Most Wins as Underdog in 2023:
| Rank | Name | No. of matches won |
| 1 | Dusan Lajovic | 14 |
| 2 | Christopher Eubanks | 14 |
| 3 | Marcos Giron | 12 |
| 4 | Francisco Cerundolo | 11 |
| 5 | Adrien Mannarino | 11 |
| 6 | Zhizhen Zhang | 11 |
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