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With age having already begun to catch up with some of the sport's superstars, it is likely that we will see a first-time tennis Grand Slam winner in 2021, so we’ve run the rule over the five most likely candidates on each tour based on their recent performances. More...

As this season’s group stage comes to a head and fans start looking ahead to the round of 16 in the spring, we have analysed every match under the current format to identify the patterns that matter in terms of Champions League progress. More...

With the Football Manager 2021 beta already out and the final release around the corner, plenty of people will be spending the winter months attempting to guide their preferred club to glory. Long-term success in the game relies on securing a production line of young talent to replace stars as they age, and finding the next wonderkid before your rivals can become an obsession. More...

To commemorate the end of the ATP Finals’ 12-year stay in London, we have analysed what it has taken to win the tournament in this period and what this could mean for the outcome of its final staging this year. More...

With the tournament set to take place in November for the first time in its history, we’ve analysed the historical data to find any US Masters trends which can help us work out which of the leading contenders is likeliest to take home the green jacket. More...

With football now back under way across Europe, the continent’s top clubs can once again focus on the long term. Unfortunately the compressed post-Covid schedule and looming international commitments could lead to their star players tiring during the campaign and suffering from burnout. More...

With the 2020 Six Nations set to resume after its coronavirus-enforced hiatus, most fans’ attention will be focused on France, England and Scotland as they vie for this year’s title. However, we’re casting our eyes down to the bottom of the table where Italy are on course to receive their 15th wooden spoon of the Six Nations era. More...

When the International Olympic Committee decided to push Tokyo 2020 back a year in response to the coronavirus pandemic, it disrupted the carefully-laid plans of many established athletes who were aiming to peak at the Games. For some British competitors who have yet to reach their full potential though, the delay has provided additional time for them to prepare. More...

With the fifth-seeded Miami Heat having reached the 2020 NBA Finals, we’ve looked back at the best ‘Cinderella runs’ in the competition’s history to see how their postseason might rank against the other great underdog stories. More...

As the world of sport continues to recover from the disruption of the first wave of COVID-19 that brought it to a virtual halt in the Spring, we’ve picked out five major sports and looked at how they responded, with regards to making changes to this year's sporting calendar. More...

With the 2020 Six Nations set to finally conclude in October after a coronavirus-enforced hiatus that saw the final four matches postponed, we have taken a look at the most interesting numbers in Six Nations history since the current format was introduced in 2000. More...

The new Premier League season is just a few days away and for more than six million fans it’s not just their own club’s fortunes they’ll be sweating on. The immense popularity of the official Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game rivals the football itself at times, with bragging rights fiercely contested in mini-leagues around the world. More...

For most football fans, their favourite players’ first match of the new season will actually be for their countries rather than their clubs. The second iteration of the UEFA Nations League kicked off this week with a revised format, so we’ve broken it down to work out what’s likely to happen. More...

We’ve looked at where three of the MMA’s leading promotions - the UFC, Bellator and the ONE Championship - have held their events to date. The UFC is, unsurprisingly, dominated by events based in the United States. In fact, there have been more UFC events held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas than in any country besides the United States itself. More...

While the Premier League grabs the lion’s share of the football headlines in England, there are more than three times as many professional clubs below the top flight with stories of their own to tell. To celebrate those working away from the limelight, we’ve ranked the top 20 managers based on their achievements with EFL clubs. More...

We've taken a look at the richest horse races in the world to track down where elite thoroughbreds can pick up the most prize money. Racing isn't known as 'the sport of kings' for nothing and huge purses are on offer all around the planet thanks to high-profile sponsors and wealthy patrons. More...

As American soccer takes its first steps towards normality with the MLS is Back Tournament, we’ve used Football Manager 2020 to identify the next generation of young stars who could light up the league. We’ve compared the in-game attributes of all emerging MLS players aged 23 or under at the start of the game with their established counterparts. More...

To celebrate the return of Europe's premier club competition this week, our analysts have devised a fiendish Champions League quiz based on the best teams, players and nations to have graced it so far. There are only 10 questions, making it the ideal challenge for a coffee break or half-time interval. More...

With the sporting calendar gradually returning to normality in the United States, we’ve taken stock of the most popular sports and identified which franchises have enjoyed the most success to date. More...

The announcement that Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have agreed to two fights means 2021 looks set to be a landmark year for British boxing. The first is set to be a unification bout from which the winner would walk away with a full set of heavyweight belts, assuming that neither boxer suffers defeat in the meantime. More...

While Roger Federer is still going strong despite approaching his 39th birthday, the landscape in men's tennis is likely to change long before Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic - already well into their thirties - reach that milestone. We’ve run the rule over the game’s leading players who are still under 30 and looked at when they might shine on the ATP Tour. More...

With Lewis Hamilton having coasted to another Formula 1 title, we’ve taken a look at how he ranks against the sport’s legends and what he needs to do to be considered the greatest driver of all time. He already has more race wins than current record holder Michael Schumacher did at the same age. More...

The 2020 Formula 1 season was just about to commence when the coronavirus lockdown swept across the world. We’ve analysed how the changes from the original schedule will affect the leading drivers and potentially influence the Championship. More...

With the Premier League season set to continue after a three-month break, we’ve been getting ourselves back up to speed with the data needed to analyse the most popular match bets. Looking back over recent seasons we’ve broken down the key goal scoring patterns including the type of goal, how many are netted and when. More...

As the first of the major European leagues to get back under way, the Bundesliga’s top players are getting more attention than usual. We’ve looked back at historical transfer patterns to work out which of the division’s stars are likely to earn a big move this summer. More...

When international sport is finally allowed to resume there will be an enormous amount of world titles waiting to be decided. Even without the rescheduled Olympic games, the sporting calendar will be packed, keeping us glued to our screens as all the unfinished business is resolved. More...

We’ve analysed every British world champion to have held a belt from one of the four main sanctioning bodies to reveal which has been the most successful in the history of the sport. More...

In the absence of live sport, many people are turning to the electronic variety for both entertainment and betting purposes. To help people understand and follow eSoccer, we’ve profiled the top competitions and the leading players who dominate them. More...

We’ve looked at the PGA Tour’s statistics to reveal every officially recorded drive of at least 450 yards - along with every player who registered a drive of at least 400 yards in a season - to identify who could break the record in the future.  More...

Many fans will have been playing Football Manager 2020 over the last few weeks to get their fix, but we’ve gone one step further and used the game’s database to predict which young players will shine when the 2020-21 season finally kicks off. More...