Not sure I'd go that far but I definitely know what you mean. If he was still serving today like he was in 2019 he would probably be the best hard court player at least. Weird to remember how good his serve used to be, wtf happened.
Will be interesting how Medvedev adjusts his game to face against Alcaraz. He knows that it will be a repeat of last year's final if he plays his normal game here.
will start calling my favourites UE Bencic and lucky ginger until they win another title, and Holger, he is so bad that I don't even have the mood to mock him...
I just want one thing, and that's for media & fans to let Carlos and Jannik be themselves. So many people act like vultures when they are down even though they are in their early 20s with a decade long career waiting them. Putting emotional pressure or outright bullying will only affect them mentally and maybe deprive us of the best thing we've had since Big 3.
Carlos spoke about it recently, how terrible comments got to him in the past few months. Jannik is already used to that and now people are lining up to belittle what he has achieved in the past 6 months.
This is why they are friends imho, if they are not supporting each other, who will? Hopefully their healthy rivalry will endure a lot of tough spots and stay strong, it's what gets them to their level. Sinner's recent form helped Alcaraz to motivate himself to get to his best (admitted by himself) and Sinner and his team always made a point that Alcaraz is always going to be his benchmark. They also have Big 3 era in front of them to take lessons on what to do and what not.
Anyways, sad to see the type of comments Jannik is getting but happy that Carlos has turned things around after Wimbledon. Tennis needs both, not only one.
edit: maybe I should do a thread about this but for some reason mods delete my threads so...whoever can, maybe we can have a thread on this as well. This has been really bugging me for a couple of months now.
Sometimes I think the media are Redditors. The rubbish takes are so similar. Those of us who love Tennis appreciate and love what the guys are doing. It would be outrageous to expect them to win everything.
Yeah…I noticed today the commentators talking about how disappointing Alcaraz’s performance had been since that Cincinnati final (Or maybe Wimbledon, I can’t remember exactly)…they were particularly hung up about the Jarry loss in Argentina
But I was thinking, he’s 20, he’s won 2 slams…the next two slams following Wimbledon he made the SF and QF…maybe give the guy a break.
And on the latest episode of the Tennis podcast, David was saying Jannik needs to “prove” himself and win this tournament to “back it up”.
The media are way too harsh for sure, and lacking perspective. They’re still both so young
the whole "he's been destroyed mentally since Cincinnati final" is the most ridiculous narrative we've had in a while. It's not like besides Roman in Paris masters, he had freak loses like Osaka used to have when she was going through her down periods. The boy made to slam SF and QF after. People kill to be in the second week. The expectations put on a 20 year old is just too much. That wasn't even a proper slump. Things got to him at Golden Swing and he injured himself. It was in doubt if he would even play in Indian Wells, let alone making to finals.
I think this is where his healthy rivalry with Sinner played part in. He said in presser that he was especially happy to be the one to end the streak. That was his main motivation. And if they were on bad terms, all the negativity in his life at that point combined with playing against someone he dreads maybe would have crushed him. But it didn't. Now we have Alcaraz back in form and Sinner who has new homework to do to get even better for the next round.
> And on the latest episode of the Tennis podcast, David was saying Jannik needs to “prove” himself and win this tournament to “back it up”.
And this is such bullshit too. Though I'm not surprised because TTP always made it clear they don't like Sinner very much and will always prefer Alcaraz over him but that's another topic. He beat Novak three times, won AO coming back from two sets down against the hard court specialist and bulldozer his way through the field until this point but it's all evaporated and doesn't matter anymore. Ridiculous, and things that are in bad faith.
Also, people are too harsh on Rune too, they forgot Rune was the most stable player in clay season last year, except the weird hardclay Madrid, the kid has 2 master runner-up, a title and only lost to Ruud in RG(the rivalry he has no clue). If it is not Casper, he will be in final for every real clay event he played last year
Rennae Stubbs has said Rune has a “punchable face”, like what ??
That’s just mean.
I think Rune can get under-rated and forgotten about sometimes - Alcaraz and Sinner get more hype/media attention - but also criticism when they fail to deliver on insane expectations.
We went from tennis tv to sky sports and it was night and day with the commentary. Sky was literally talking about the match at hand while courier and tennis tv were giving these think pieces to se podcasts on how poorly Carlos has been playing since Wimbledon. Talking over points not talking about the match at all. Martina Navratilova got so pissy with them earlier this week it was hilarious but dam if she’s not wrong.
It’s like courier is obsessed with seeing Carlos lose. The bias is unreal. If you can’t stay unbiased as a commentator, your one job. Then get out of the booth
Weird as I was on tennis TV but didn’t have Courier commentate….I don’t think I’ve ever heard him commentate as I thought that was a tennis channel thing..
Maybe I was on another feed or something (not the main point)..BUT I think it was just that one remark/s I mentioned above, I could have missed more though.
the funniest thing is even Jannik wins Miami, someone like David will still doubt him because the loss in IW showed him doesn't know how to play on slow hardcourt.
It'd be nice if Alcaraz and Sinner remained friendly over the years if they are to be the future of tennis.
I think right now it's helped a lot by Djokovic still being a big threat, and so it's kinda him vs young players, and therefore easier to be friendly with a rival, since Djokovic is seen as the "real" rival. But when that goes away, it might get tricky.
There are some comments underneath the Semis highlights that were like 'WOW Sinner Alcaraz matches are just out of this world, it makes the Med v Paul match look average!!' and I was just like 🤨
Yall hype is good and I know they're the future but these people are clowning if they think Paul v Med wasn't an amazing match too, Pauls volleys were insane and Med hit some amazing winners.
If there wasn't a rain delay I think we would have gotten peak Sincaraz though 🥲
To be fair, the highlight shots and rallies of Sincaraz match were still of much higher quality. So if you only watch the short highlights, you would think Sincaraz match was better. Although I do agree that Med v Paul match was more close and better overall.
I was on the edge of my seat so so stressed watching Med vs Paul….and not so much with Sinner v Alcaraz.
Might be because I’m a Meddy fan though, and had no real vested interest in the other match (Although I was going for Alcaraz, I didn’t really mind either way)
They were both kind of weird matches with a one sided first set - and the winner of set 2 taking the match, but I feel like it was way way closer in the Meddy match
I was honestly hype for an AO rematch so soon, Sinvedev is a fun as hell matchup to me, so I'm sad that didn't happen :( Alcaraz - Med matchup has no weight to it right now.
But yeah other than that, I was invested in Meddy too and that match against Paul was way closer than I would have liked. Tiebreak was bonkers.
I was literally sweating (I also live in a poorly insulated house and it was hot today and I had no aircon on…) but still! that was stressful
I think the Alcaraz match-up has potential to be good..their US Open match last year was a big surprise. I will say, the difference with playing night matches (eg. Paul, Korda) when it’s been cold weather compared to the only day match (Dimitrov) + what Med has said about practicing in those conditions - he should play much much better tomorrow (hopefully).
yeah, for most of the Sincaraz match, one of them was playing awful. So we didn't get the best of it definitely, I don't know why people are overrating it
So hurt by Sinner's performance. Don't know how he summoned 2022 sinner back again in this match. Absolutely no plan B. His team was yelling to do something unpredictable but Sinner didn't do anything new after first set. Ranking 2 gone. Now I have no serious hope for him on clay.
Federer was swift at nets. But Alcaraz is just electric. To some extent Jinner too. If they continue to maintain their level, tennis is in very good hands.
To say what Jannik did since Beijing I have the perfect approach for the over-reacted fans(Just want to share it again because I think it is too good )
From Beijing last year, what he did was beating Djokovic in an unless RR match, a pre-holiday non-serious team event and the worst Novak we have seen but lost the important GS SF and a final with huge hometown advantages;
For his top 5 wins? they are all fake as he beat no.2 and no.3 in some useless 500s and used the crowd to beat no.3 in an unfair way. Oh, the no.5 he beat was not the real no.5, the real no.5 has a 4-1 h2h with him that he can never turn it over
Also, his winning streak including a Davis cup and 3 500s, which is very Rublev level achievement.
Oh,come on, you talked about the GS?
He won a gs without facing Tsitsipas, Zverev and Alcaraz who beat him in previous 3 hardcourt GSs. If he faced any of them, he will go home early.
Eventually, we know he can't beat a normal level Alcaraz, he can't beat a normal level Medvedev, he can't beat a normal level Djokovic, he can't beat a normal level Zverev, he won't pass GS QF if he doesn't have the extreme luck. Maybe we should start calling him the lucky Rublev.
Lucky Rublev lol. Funny thing is Rublev even lost to Tiafoe of all people in QF in USO. Sinner however would have likely won that USO way back, if he managed to not lose to Alcaraz.
Ngl I'm not confident for this final at all as a Med fan lol
I think that Med is the 2nd best player in the world on this type of deadly slow hardcourt surface(Sinner's aggression is too baseline heavy and can become error prone here and Novak is just too old to keep up in long grinding rallies)
However the gap between Med and Alcaraz is honestly quite big based on prior evidence because he has the type of attacking that works perfectly here and ruins Med's defensive strategy
Honestly feels like Alcaraz will win IW like 6 or 7 times over his career if he stays healthy
Carlos will guarantee 2500 points a year for next 8-10 years unless his brother comes to the tournament, IW, barcelona+ Madrid.
And if he wins a GS and get into 1 F and 1 SF, that is 4100, he will have at least 6700 points every year, which is very scary.
My god, relax. It’s highly unlikely that any player is “guaranteed” 3 tournaments for 8-10 years. Just off the top my head, I remember Ruusuvuori and Struff had Carlos on the ropes at Madrid last year. Jannik was closer to beating him today than he was last year at IW, next year he could beat him.
New players will come, other players will peak, and Carlos will have bad days. There are no guarantees in sport. Federer was looking dominant at the U.S. Open when he won it 5 times in a row and then he never won it again.
but barcelona and Madrid bascially will do everything including schedule to make sure he can win the tournaments, e.g. 2022 Madrid schedule for DVerev. And it is just like what Turin did for Jannik last year(and they will do it this year again as Jannik has 2900 points and nearly confirm to qualify for Turin as top 20/16)
I think I was too safe to say 8-10 years, maybe from now to his retirement.
I mean sure? The schedulers may try to do what they can to help Carlos but he still has to play and win the matches.
8-10 years is a long time in sports. I know Rafa won Monte Carlo 8 times in a row but has anyone else done that (or more) with a single tournament? I really doubt Carlos will do it with 2-3 tournaments.
After such a mental collapse at AO Paul seems to have really improved his mental game. Yeah he lost but he fought all the way through and didn’t give up. That’s great to see. Hope he keeps it up but great job by Meddy.
Only chance of Med winning tomoz is 1. day time magic or whatever let him play better against Dimi 2. doing the same hyperaggressive shit he did in the first 2 sets of the AO, but realistically I’d say 80:20 odds for Alcaraz 😭😭😭
Even Sinner’s streak isn’t as strong as the streak of Medvedev labouring his way to a final that I attend .
See you guys after the match tomorrow. I’m taking my 4 year old nephew with me after an 8 hour drive. The only player he knows and cares about is Alcaraz
nvm I wish Sinner won his match now, I was so hyped for a potential AO final rematch 😭
Med v Alcaraz is not as interesting tbh, Carlos will take it tomorrow.
But Med isn’t winning anyway with that serve so
During the post match interview with meddy, the interviewer was trying to ask him another question & started it with “before you go..” — I think meddy misheard it and started to walk away & it took a minute for him to understand the interview wasn’t over lol. Super dumb but made me laugh.
I expect many surprises from Medvedev but I never expected him to make 2 IW finals in a row
Also insane how at the end he had less UEs than Paul after that start
by how the matches went today, Carlos wins the first set 6-1, then loses 4-6, then a weird fall hampers Medwed in the 3rd and Carlos finishes him off 6-3
If you need more medvedev & tommy paul here is their practice sesh together a week ago at IW [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5PAAE1QMQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5PAAE1QMQ)
I think the problem for both is similar as well
Just like Murray was on the level of the big 3 defensively but miles away from them offensively so is Med compared to Sincaraz
He can make all the crazy gets they make but can't finish the point off lol
It remains to be seen whether Meddy can win another slam or not, but imo it’ll require him to be able to play a bit more attacking tennis for short spurts. The quality of players that he’d face/has faced in a slam final require their opponent to go and really take the match from them.
He played great in those first 2 sets against Sinner at the AO….just think he was exhausted already by that point as his other matches ended up getting dragged out
Probably not. Carlos is a much more consistent player than Tommy. It's a joke even amongst the players that Tommy loses concentration in the middle of matches. That's not gonna happen with Carlos.
This match reminded me of one of the greatest matches in Indian Wells, when in 2014 no one thought Alexander Dolgopolov could beat Nadal. Tommy could have lived a similar fairytale.
Carlitos is getting a bit unlucky as of divided shots which could go in or out. As soon as some of these start to enter Med is in big trouble.
IGA is playing lights out. Maria has to find a way.
IGA is so quick to shuffle back into return position after her serve.
lol IGA with 18 career titles at 22 yrs old. The dominance.
Nice of the tournament to give out free green hats.
If meddy gets his serve figured out he’s number 1 in the world
Not sure I'd go that far but I definitely know what you mean. If he was still serving today like he was in 2019 he would probably be the best hard court player at least. Weird to remember how good his serve used to be, wtf happened.
Will be interesting how Medvedev adjusts his game to face against Alcaraz. He knows that it will be a repeat of last year's final if he plays his normal game here.
Hope the final is good-- I really wanted TP to get there 😢
will start calling my favourites UE Bencic and lucky ginger until they win another title, and Holger, he is so bad that I don't even have the mood to mock him...
I just want one thing, and that's for media & fans to let Carlos and Jannik be themselves. So many people act like vultures when they are down even though they are in their early 20s with a decade long career waiting them. Putting emotional pressure or outright bullying will only affect them mentally and maybe deprive us of the best thing we've had since Big 3. Carlos spoke about it recently, how terrible comments got to him in the past few months. Jannik is already used to that and now people are lining up to belittle what he has achieved in the past 6 months. This is why they are friends imho, if they are not supporting each other, who will? Hopefully their healthy rivalry will endure a lot of tough spots and stay strong, it's what gets them to their level. Sinner's recent form helped Alcaraz to motivate himself to get to his best (admitted by himself) and Sinner and his team always made a point that Alcaraz is always going to be his benchmark. They also have Big 3 era in front of them to take lessons on what to do and what not. Anyways, sad to see the type of comments Jannik is getting but happy that Carlos has turned things around after Wimbledon. Tennis needs both, not only one. edit: maybe I should do a thread about this but for some reason mods delete my threads so...whoever can, maybe we can have a thread on this as well. This has been really bugging me for a couple of months now.
Sometimes I think the media are Redditors. The rubbish takes are so similar. Those of us who love Tennis appreciate and love what the guys are doing. It would be outrageous to expect them to win everything.
Yeah…I noticed today the commentators talking about how disappointing Alcaraz’s performance had been since that Cincinnati final (Or maybe Wimbledon, I can’t remember exactly)…they were particularly hung up about the Jarry loss in Argentina But I was thinking, he’s 20, he’s won 2 slams…the next two slams following Wimbledon he made the SF and QF…maybe give the guy a break. And on the latest episode of the Tennis podcast, David was saying Jannik needs to “prove” himself and win this tournament to “back it up”. The media are way too harsh for sure, and lacking perspective. They’re still both so young
the whole "he's been destroyed mentally since Cincinnati final" is the most ridiculous narrative we've had in a while. It's not like besides Roman in Paris masters, he had freak loses like Osaka used to have when she was going through her down periods. The boy made to slam SF and QF after. People kill to be in the second week. The expectations put on a 20 year old is just too much. That wasn't even a proper slump. Things got to him at Golden Swing and he injured himself. It was in doubt if he would even play in Indian Wells, let alone making to finals. I think this is where his healthy rivalry with Sinner played part in. He said in presser that he was especially happy to be the one to end the streak. That was his main motivation. And if they were on bad terms, all the negativity in his life at that point combined with playing against someone he dreads maybe would have crushed him. But it didn't. Now we have Alcaraz back in form and Sinner who has new homework to do to get even better for the next round. > And on the latest episode of the Tennis podcast, David was saying Jannik needs to “prove” himself and win this tournament to “back it up”. And this is such bullshit too. Though I'm not surprised because TTP always made it clear they don't like Sinner very much and will always prefer Alcaraz over him but that's another topic. He beat Novak three times, won AO coming back from two sets down against the hard court specialist and bulldozer his way through the field until this point but it's all evaporated and doesn't matter anymore. Ridiculous, and things that are in bad faith.
Also, people are too harsh on Rune too, they forgot Rune was the most stable player in clay season last year, except the weird hardclay Madrid, the kid has 2 master runner-up, a title and only lost to Ruud in RG(the rivalry he has no clue). If it is not Casper, he will be in final for every real clay event he played last year
Rennae Stubbs has said Rune has a “punchable face”, like what ?? That’s just mean. I think Rune can get under-rated and forgotten about sometimes - Alcaraz and Sinner get more hype/media attention - but also criticism when they fail to deliver on insane expectations.
We went from tennis tv to sky sports and it was night and day with the commentary. Sky was literally talking about the match at hand while courier and tennis tv were giving these think pieces to se podcasts on how poorly Carlos has been playing since Wimbledon. Talking over points not talking about the match at all. Martina Navratilova got so pissy with them earlier this week it was hilarious but dam if she’s not wrong. It’s like courier is obsessed with seeing Carlos lose. The bias is unreal. If you can’t stay unbiased as a commentator, your one job. Then get out of the booth
Weird as I was on tennis TV but didn’t have Courier commentate….I don’t think I’ve ever heard him commentate as I thought that was a tennis channel thing.. Maybe I was on another feed or something (not the main point)..BUT I think it was just that one remark/s I mentioned above, I could have missed more though.
the funniest thing is even Jannik wins Miami, someone like David will still doubt him because the loss in IW showed him doesn't know how to play on slow hardcourt.
Cannot wait for PPS (post popcorn Sakkari)
i just hope stadium will be at least 70% full for women's finals
who winning the final??
It'd be nice if Alcaraz and Sinner remained friendly over the years if they are to be the future of tennis. I think right now it's helped a lot by Djokovic still being a big threat, and so it's kinda him vs young players, and therefore easier to be friendly with a rival, since Djokovic is seen as the "real" rival. But when that goes away, it might get tricky.
There are some comments underneath the Semis highlights that were like 'WOW Sinner Alcaraz matches are just out of this world, it makes the Med v Paul match look average!!' and I was just like 🤨 Yall hype is good and I know they're the future but these people are clowning if they think Paul v Med wasn't an amazing match too, Pauls volleys were insane and Med hit some amazing winners. If there wasn't a rain delay I think we would have gotten peak Sincaraz though 🥲
To be fair, the highlight shots and rallies of Sincaraz match were still of much higher quality. So if you only watch the short highlights, you would think Sincaraz match was better. Although I do agree that Med v Paul match was more close and better overall.
I was on the edge of my seat so so stressed watching Med vs Paul….and not so much with Sinner v Alcaraz. Might be because I’m a Meddy fan though, and had no real vested interest in the other match (Although I was going for Alcaraz, I didn’t really mind either way) They were both kind of weird matches with a one sided first set - and the winner of set 2 taking the match, but I feel like it was way way closer in the Meddy match
I was honestly hype for an AO rematch so soon, Sinvedev is a fun as hell matchup to me, so I'm sad that didn't happen :( Alcaraz - Med matchup has no weight to it right now. But yeah other than that, I was invested in Meddy too and that match against Paul was way closer than I would have liked. Tiebreak was bonkers.
I was literally sweating (I also live in a poorly insulated house and it was hot today and I had no aircon on…) but still! that was stressful I think the Alcaraz match-up has potential to be good..their US Open match last year was a big surprise. I will say, the difference with playing night matches (eg. Paul, Korda) when it’s been cold weather compared to the only day match (Dimitrov) + what Med has said about practicing in those conditions - he should play much much better tomorrow (hopefully).
yeah, for most of the Sincaraz match, one of them was playing awful. So we didn't get the best of it definitely, I don't know why people are overrating it
Now that i have finally cooled down. Will be supporting Alcaraz for the win tomorrow and hopefully Sinner wins Miami.
Carlos will be the first player since Federer to defend his title at Indian Wells.
Med is dangerous though - look at USO 23. I hope Alcaraz is prepared this time - Med sure as hell will be
I think for Alcaraz 2024 is the revenge tour :D
Love how Gilles Cervara has been posting all the team Meddy BTS content on Instagram this week
Gilles reminds me of that host from Survivor in those photos idk why
The way I just RAN to his profile
If Med loses the final tomorrow I will genuinely say Tommy Paul died for this
If TP hadn’t rolled his ankle, he had a good chance of winning this match and potentially the final too. He has beaten Carlos before.
Yep I am aware haha thats why I said that
So hurt by Sinner's performance. Don't know how he summoned 2022 sinner back again in this match. Absolutely no plan B. His team was yelling to do something unpredictable but Sinner didn't do anything new after first set. Ranking 2 gone. Now I have no serious hope for him on clay.
It was one match lol and one where he was having issues with his leg and wrist in the 3rd.
Federer was swift at nets. But Alcaraz is just electric. To some extent Jinner too. If they continue to maintain their level, tennis is in very good hands.
Tommy Paul was better than all these players at the net today But he’s not a fancy marketable name so no one cares
TP was phenomenal today. Alcaraz is great too. But Federer was a different league all together.
Big day in Alcaraz's career. He's finally discovered a thing called tactics. Only half joking lol.
Half joke or not, that holds some water! I was impressed that he found a way and made the other guy lose the match.
To say what Jannik did since Beijing I have the perfect approach for the over-reacted fans(Just want to share it again because I think it is too good ) From Beijing last year, what he did was beating Djokovic in an unless RR match, a pre-holiday non-serious team event and the worst Novak we have seen but lost the important GS SF and a final with huge hometown advantages; For his top 5 wins? they are all fake as he beat no.2 and no.3 in some useless 500s and used the crowd to beat no.3 in an unfair way. Oh, the no.5 he beat was not the real no.5, the real no.5 has a 4-1 h2h with him that he can never turn it over Also, his winning streak including a Davis cup and 3 500s, which is very Rublev level achievement. Oh,come on, you talked about the GS? He won a gs without facing Tsitsipas, Zverev and Alcaraz who beat him in previous 3 hardcourt GSs. If he faced any of them, he will go home early. Eventually, we know he can't beat a normal level Alcaraz, he can't beat a normal level Medvedev, he can't beat a normal level Djokovic, he can't beat a normal level Zverev, he won't pass GS QF if he doesn't have the extreme luck. Maybe we should start calling him the lucky Rublev.
Lucky Rublev lol. Funny thing is Rublev even lost to Tiafoe of all people in QF in USO. Sinner however would have likely won that USO way back, if he managed to not lose to Alcaraz.
You’re never going to be da_SENtinel
What the fuck 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tommy Paul is very good and will still improve, I think. He’s shaping up to have another great year.
Ngl I'm not confident for this final at all as a Med fan lol I think that Med is the 2nd best player in the world on this type of deadly slow hardcourt surface(Sinner's aggression is too baseline heavy and can become error prone here and Novak is just too old to keep up in long grinding rallies) However the gap between Med and Alcaraz is honestly quite big based on prior evidence because he has the type of attacking that works perfectly here and ruins Med's defensive strategy Honestly feels like Alcaraz will win IW like 6 or 7 times over his career if he stays healthy
Carlos will guarantee 2500 points a year for next 8-10 years unless his brother comes to the tournament, IW, barcelona+ Madrid. And if he wins a GS and get into 1 F and 1 SF, that is 4100, he will have at least 6700 points every year, which is very scary.
My god, relax. It’s highly unlikely that any player is “guaranteed” 3 tournaments for 8-10 years. Just off the top my head, I remember Ruusuvuori and Struff had Carlos on the ropes at Madrid last year. Jannik was closer to beating him today than he was last year at IW, next year he could beat him. New players will come, other players will peak, and Carlos will have bad days. There are no guarantees in sport. Federer was looking dominant at the U.S. Open when he won it 5 times in a row and then he never won it again.
but barcelona and Madrid bascially will do everything including schedule to make sure he can win the tournaments, e.g. 2022 Madrid schedule for DVerev. And it is just like what Turin did for Jannik last year(and they will do it this year again as Jannik has 2900 points and nearly confirm to qualify for Turin as top 20/16) I think I was too safe to say 8-10 years, maybe from now to his retirement.
I mean sure? The schedulers may try to do what they can to help Carlos but he still has to play and win the matches. 8-10 years is a long time in sports. I know Rafa won Monte Carlo 8 times in a row but has anyone else done that (or more) with a single tournament? I really doubt Carlos will do it with 2-3 tournaments.
don't count your bees before they swarm, or something like that. i'll remain hopeful for med & his gillesquad
After such a mental collapse at AO Paul seems to have really improved his mental game. Yeah he lost but he fought all the way through and didn’t give up. That’s great to see. Hope he keeps it up but great job by Meddy.
Too much 🐙 hentai for one day
i hope iga and alcaraz win the titles
It’s very probable
Only chance of Med winning tomoz is 1. day time magic or whatever let him play better against Dimi 2. doing the same hyperaggressive shit he did in the first 2 sets of the AO, but realistically I’d say 80:20 odds for Alcaraz 😭😭😭
Even Sinner’s streak isn’t as strong as the streak of Medvedev labouring his way to a final that I attend . See you guys after the match tomorrow. I’m taking my 4 year old nephew with me after an 8 hour drive. The only player he knows and cares about is Alcaraz
Vamos!
Does alcarez summon a force of mother nature for a trifecta of delays tomorrow? if not see you all 2pm PST tomorrow
I feel like Med doesn't hit quite as flat as he used to A lot of his shots kind of loop pretty high and then drop in now which wasn't the case before
he started hitting with spin beginning of last year especially on his fh side
I noticed too, and it may be for the specific balls or conditions like wind.
My conclusion from Indian Wells semifinals: A breadstick allows you to power up for sets 2 and 3
nvm I wish Sinner won his match now, I was so hyped for a potential AO final rematch 😭 Med v Alcaraz is not as interesting tbh, Carlos will take it tomorrow. But Med isn’t winning anyway with that serve so
“Before you go..” *walks the fuck away*
Wait what happened??
During the post match interview with meddy, the interviewer was trying to ask him another question & started it with “before you go..” — I think meddy misheard it and started to walk away & it took a minute for him to understand the interview wasn’t over lol. Super dumb but made me laugh.
thats hilarious
TP gained many fans tonight. I wouldn't have blamed him for pulling a Zverev after the ankle roll.
Idk a domestic assault during the match would be pretty insane
They don't broadcast the on court interviews?
He doing rn and I’m watching but is ESPN Brazil
They showed it on TC plus but not on the main channel 🤷♂️
There is not a world where Medvedev wins the final with that awful serve. This is basically 2023 rehash lmao.
I expect many surprises from Medvedev but I never expected him to make 2 IW finals in a row Also insane how at the end he had less UEs than Paul after that start
well i really wanted that for tommy but hopefully he still feels pretty good about the tournament overall, as he should
Oh that impish smile.
never watched TP before,,,now it's time to actually look out for his games,,,he's literally superman on court lolol
aw very tough loss for tommy
Got to wonder how much the ankle was a factor in set 3. Really feel bad for Tommy if so
Has Meddy complained about the courts here this year?
he said he won’t blame the courts this year
No.
What did he write on the camera?
Just the graal?
just the final, in awful handwriting tho
Carlos has an edge on this one but we shall see, nothing is guaranteed in tennis.
congrats meddy! rematch of 2023
literally shows the difference b/w the top 5 players and top 20 in the world and the answer is : endurance and how shored up you are mentally ,,,jesus
Just the graal?
scraping by as always lol
med represents us his entire fandom smh
Gutted for Tommy
Who we taking in the final tomorrow?
by how the matches went today, Carlos wins the first set 6-1, then loses 4-6, then a weird fall hampers Medwed in the 3rd and Carlos finishes him off 6-3
Carlos in 2
I KNOW THAT'S RIGHT 🐙🐙🐙 nothing but respect to Paul 🫡🫡 but Meddy's fortitude is just exceptional
Daaamn such a great fight from Tommy. I think he’s close to a breakthrough. Awesome match
what am I supposed to do now?
If you need more medvedev & tommy paul here is their practice sesh together a week ago at IW [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5PAAE1QMQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5PAAE1QMQ)
Anyone catch what they said?
Of course I came into this with Meddy taking it but at the end of it I’m just not really happy about the outcome at all tbh
Happy that went 3. Fun stuff on deck for tomorrow. Have a good night y’all 🫡
why don't they have on court interviews?
They do they just don’t televise them. It’s so dumb.
Too late at night.
Is that a slams-only thing? Not sure and can't remember right now
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Maybe it was just too late tonight then
Medvedev when he has to serve it out = Challenger Tour player
Nothing is easy with the octopus, we all his fans know it by heart now
That was ugly, hard and painful. So basically a normal Med match.
he's a hardcourt speacialist for a reason!!!
Haha the dj had blinding lights ready to go
There came a point in this match where I thought Meddy’s box was empty since they were showing Tommy’s box so often
The madman pulls it off again!
Much respect to Tommy Paul. He’s such a fighter and has low key put together a nice career on tour
Ugly win. Medvedev will need to play much better tomorrow.
Medvedev is the Murray of this era . The ATG gatekeeper who’s consistent but just a step below the legends
I think the problem for both is similar as well Just like Murray was on the level of the big 3 defensively but miles away from them offensively so is Med compared to Sincaraz He can make all the crazy gets they make but can't finish the point off lol
That’s a good assessment. Small cat like reflexes.
Will Medvedev win at least 2 more majors though?
Will Sinner and Alcaraz win 20+? Murray is the model here, not the benchmark
It’s done here lads. Rematch of 2023
Daniil, please, I want to go to bed.
This match has actually been super entertaining, Tommy playing fearless and quality stuff from Daniil too, what a day of semi-finals 🙌🏼
Medvedev Challenge Win 2-3 points in a row when trying to serve it out Level IMPOSSIBLE
7 more deuces incoming
Drive volley is a bad decision 90% of the time and I'll die on this hill.
Ye, guess med shouldn’t go to the net lol
Can't believe Sinner had his 18 game winning run ended by Fraudcaraz of all people.
Probably a rabid Djokovic fan aren't ya?!
Med's going to be the poster boy for winning ugly at the end of his career
it's a game of endurance and your opponent is Daniil Medvedev
Come on Meddy. Don’t get broken here
Meddy sealed this set when Paul stopped S&Ving so much tbh, I imagine cos of the injury which sucks, rallies just aren’t the way to beat Meddy
Paul keeps doing so good attacking the point then making a careless error when he gets a sitter from Medvedev
Tommy Paul is surprisingly quick.
“He’s got The Bee Gees in his mind now, staying alive” “It’s getting late”😭😭
These overshot forehands are killing me Tommy
These delayed calls are throwing me off.
It remains to be seen whether Meddy can win another slam or not, but imo it’ll require him to be able to play a bit more attacking tennis for short spurts. The quality of players that he’d face/has faced in a slam final require their opponent to go and really take the match from them.
He played great in those first 2 sets against Sinner at the AO….just think he was exhausted already by that point as his other matches ended up getting dragged out
"first he takes your energy,next he takes your legs and then he breaks your mind" - Daniil Medvedev & Carlos Alcaraz (17/3/2024)
Now can I please get one fucking clean service game Meddy
On the bright side if Meddy’s opps ever want the blueprint to beat him they should just watch the first set
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I think he’s been very stubborn about it. He hates net game but that’s also something that he needs to give more variety to his game
Medvedev is inevitable
Does Paul's strategy tonight help prepare Danil for tomorrow?
Probably not. Carlos is a much more consistent player than Tommy. It's a joke even amongst the players that Tommy loses concentration in the middle of matches. That's not gonna happen with Carlos.
sheesh,,,there goes the symmetry
At least Tommy seems to be enjoying the match.
To whoever downvoted: he was smiling, although he just lost a game with several BPs. The dude just likes the quality tennis being played.
What’s Tommy’s gf blinking in Morse code rn
She needs a hard reboot
medvedev vs alcarez is gonna be a blowout just like last year
Can atp writers write sth new lol
i wouldn't want to be in Tommy's box rn
What will be Tommy's ranking on Monday assuming Meddy takes this?
Thanks. Hope he can go deep in Miami and try to get in the top 10.
He'll be 14 (still behind Fritz at 13; only winning IW would have put him ahead at 12)
14
14
14th
These poor balls are getting a real beating.
This match reminded me of one of the greatest matches in Indian Wells, when in 2014 no one thought Alexander Dolgopolov could beat Nadal. Tommy could have lived a similar fairytale.
I watched the highlights of this match yesterday lmao
Insane huh?
Tommy, STOP WITH THE SLICE BH!
Players play with watch on? Is that a watch on Tommy's hand?
They usually put them on right after the match...to advertise their sponsorship lol...was he really playing with one on tonight??
[https://i.imgur.com/JuVTQZR.png](https://i.imgur.com/JuVTQZR.png) It looks like a watch to me.
Can I turn it off now
At least this is not as bad as that bagel 5th set vs Kecmanovic at the AO for Tommy He only won 6 points the entire set
I was just thinking about that earlier. That was sad and unbelievable. It felt like it came out of nowhere
Yeah…no idea if that was just a complete mental collapse or if something else was going on
medved is literally such an anxiety inducing babygirl,,,it's sooo hard to keep up w him,,,ong
I'm here for Meddy, but Tommy is a hell of a fighter.
Baseline warrior humbled AI generated man
Crazy how similar both of these matches are
Praying for you Symmetry Boy...
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