Barty back? Rublev, Rune to rule? Kenin's comeback: Our hottest tennis takes for 2024

As we make our way toward the 2024 season—which begins Friday, December 29 with the United Cup—our writers and editors tackle the most important questions of the new year.

Question Ten: Give me your hottest take for 2024.

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STEVE TIGNOR: Rafael Nadal will have one more thing to say about the GOAT race.

PETER BODO: Trash-talking opponents will become one of the main story lines in tennis.

MEGAN FERNANDEZ: Ashleigh Barty returns to competition—golf.

ED MCGROGAN: Andrey Rublev, 0-9 in Grand Slam quarterfinals, will be the next player to win his first major.

DAVID KANE: Holger Rune will win a Grand Slam title.

MATT FITZGERALD: Sofia Kenin gets herself back into a Grand Slam final.

STEPHANIE LIVAUDAIS: With the ATP cozying up to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the WTA scrambling to reestablish order after narrowly avoiding a player revolt, the PTPA’s player-led mission finally picking up steam, the Grand Slams and 1000-level events plotting a ‘European Super League’-style breakaway tour, and many more sport-defining decisions still up in the air, one thing is clear: Professional tennis will look completely different after next year.

JON LEVEY: Two American men will qualify for the ATP Finals.

JOEL DRUCKER: The 2024 tennis year will see the first of many economic and organizational shifts that will make the structure of the sport look very different by the end of the decade.