If Ruud wins today, it will be the start of the Ruud Clay Era
He will become a modern day Thomas Muster
However, should he fail today he will never win a meaningful tournament on the surface or for that matter, any surface
Is there a platform/way to watch the Tsitsipas/Ruud match for free tonight? Tennis TV is too expensive, and I really just want to watch Casper's match tonight 😭
Wonder if Novak want to get 2 500s or 250s title so he can join 100 club. He did it in 2022 after Wimbledon when he goes on crazy winning streak in indoor hard courts.
We will see but idk if he will do that in an Olympic year. Having RG > grass month > Wimbledon > Olympics can be a lot if you go to deep runs. If he is doing anything after Wimbledon it will be joining one clay 250 to get some training for the Olympics.
Because of work, I haven’t had any time for Monte Carlo, but even though I’m late, I had to pop in here to comment on Stef’s sartorial choices. Red shirt and red shorts on red clay? My man was camouflaged.
It's so weird. Every year there's at least one kit which blends in with the red clay. I don't know if it's to put off the opponent but it makes viewing terrible on tv. Rune's terracotta kit last year was the absolute worst.
So out of curiosity was watching djokovic vs thiem Madrid 2019 SF and djokovic was very lucky in the games were he broke back in both sets. And thiem had another really bad miss we should have been an effortless winner on BP very late in the second set. That would have prevented his third title there most likely. And alcaraz had a shocker of a service game at 4-3 in Cincinnati F as well.
wake-up after having some more sleep and saw Jannik's statement for Madrid, I am a bit disappointed for him not withdraw from that tournament but it is understandable for the huge amount of money he has to give up for the tournament profit share.
This boy knows what he should do and he doesn't afraid to tell the true even if it will slap someone's face
I don't think he is injuried and he didn't say anything about that at all, so I assume nothing happened.
I think he knows that answer/statement is unnecessary but he just wants to say it, he lowkey loves to slap legend's faces like the organisers of Paris master, Madrid master and Laver cup. Can't wait to see him praising Beijing but shitting on Shanghai Master this year
BJK Cup crazy time: after Bia's win Brasil going with clay specialist Carolina Alves (not Pigossi) versus Laura Siegemund.
Deciding doubles: Ukraine with Kichenok twins against xxxxxxx for Romania.
Now says Ana Bogdan and Jacqui Cristian.
I'm just curious, I guess supervisors don't give any f about consequences of umpires making mistakes?
Saw nothing of the acknowledgements from anybody official (besides players ofc) of those mistakes or apologies, just straight up ruining mentally the players when they know it's out and it's called in
Probably no, but post match they can analyze maybe and come to a conclusion that they were wrong
Some refs in football come out with those statements and apology that there was a wrong call or a mistake
This has been building - would be a satisfying narrative conclusion.
It's like Ruud gave himself permission, realised he was allowed to play tennis in a more aggressive way, and soon got better because of it.
Kinda random but I can’t find any extended highlights of rune vs medvedev in Indian wells on YouTube. So does it not exist or is there a way to watch something like that
I usually root against Djokovic but as soon as Sinner lost I somehow hoped he’d get to the final so that Tsitsi could finally end his losing streak against him and regain some confidence. But I’m also glad for Ruud, he needed it as bad as Tsitsipas!
In honor of letting Casper win, i have officially moved Novak to the #2 spot of my favorite big 3 member list and #7 on my favorite tennis playing geriatric list 🥰 You will never hear a bad from me about him ever again 🥰
Draqui Cristian trying to take Romania to doubles point rn versus Lesia Tsurenko; none of the other Qualifiers has gone to 5th match yet although Brazil still could.
I like Holger too but it’s hard not too root for Casper! Are Norway and Denmark always competitive with each other or do they often support each others athletes because of Scandinavian ties? They kinda seem more like brother nations than bitter rivals like Argentina and Brazil but I’m just American so idrk 😭
It’s definitely a sibling-like rivalry - very cordial The rivalries between Denmark/Sweden and Norway/Sweden? Still pretty friendly, but slightly less so. But it’s pretty cool when any Scandinavian succeeds in major sports internationally - Haaland and Højlund in football, Duplantis in athletics.
That was absolute golden chance for a triple golden masters but Novak just looks flat and demotivated and also gassed
The end is near. It’s been a hell of a ride and we will absolutely miss him when he’s gone but when you lose to Casper Ruud, that’s when you know the end is near.
He will not lose much sleep over it but a triple golden masters when all he had to do was beat two players who he’s dominated will definitely hurt
>Novak just looks flat and demotivated
Have you actually watched the match? If anything he was more motivated than he's been in the previous matches this year. All down to that roar for the 3rd set (brief) comeback.
I did watch the whole of this and De Minaur match.
Which part of the flurry of unforced errors in the third set and that double fault to end the match screamed motivation to you?
Why does anyone do anything in tennis? It’s not from motivation.. you don’t miss a shot because you’re not motivated enough, it comes down to consistency and skill.
Would have been really nice for Djokovic to get the triple golden masters, was pretty upset for a bit but Im kinda over it now. I guess it’s not really that big of a deal. That’s 8 out of 9 masters won at least 3 times and 2 for all. Kinda almost the same thing. And he’s not really in danger of nadal overtaking him in most masters
On the other hand tsitsipas vs Ruud/sinner on clay were matchups I was looking out for to see. Also waiting for alcaraz/djokovic vs sinner on clay and rune vs alcaraz on clay (and rune vs zverev anywhere)
Sinner said he felt something “move” in his knee, while up a break in the match. He gutted through it but he had a lot of wild unforced errors after that and his movement looked pretty bad.
A mod here deleted the thread on Sinner’s injury and falsely claimed there was another thread already on the topic, which there is not.
It’s going to be interesting to see whether he needs an MRI and how much time he ends up missing.
Casper is a different player when he trusts his backhand and really steps in and hits it. Some of those DTL and even a couple cross-court BH winners were so sweet. Also can keep him in a better position to hit the forehand to finish it off instead of being way off the court trying to run around it and hit the forehand. Rafa used to go to crazy lengths to only hit forehands when he had the legs of an energizer bunny but he became a much more complete player when he improved the backhand and used it as a weapon as well.
They played one other time in 2016 at the Italy F10 Futures clay court tournament.
Tsitsipas won in three sets.
https://tennistonic.com/stat-tournaments/?m=atp&tid=13148&p1=30470&p2=33648&Stefanos-TsitsipasvsCasper-Ruud
All things are in Casper's hand:
1) Dverev lost in R16 so Meddy could have higher chance to get his no.4 seed in Rg
2)Sinner won the QF so he could have a higher chance to get the no.2 seed rather than Alcaraz+Rune now fell to no.12, so one more player to prevent Dverev going further in the clay season
3) RG draws Djokovic and Alcaraz in the same half and Ruud stays with Sinner and Meddy
4) Rune beats Djokovic in QF and tires Alcaraz in SF and Ruud beat the tired Sinner/DVerev in SF
5) At least RG runner-up again for Ruud
Hearing that Ruud prayed just to let him win this one time, i'm not at all mad for the ending :D Level was high, many positives to be taken from this match and excited for the upcoming tournaments for Nole.
Ruud himself prayed to God in that moment ;D. It worked. Of course there were mistakes by Nole, but still there was drive, energy and focus like we hadn't seen this season. His first tournament on clay and he looks very good. There's no doubt his level has risen since the poor start of the year. There were some classic Djoković clutchness and some classic Djoković mistakes in this match. Which is very very good, because that Djoković we saw at the start of the year, was far from classic Nole. It was just no drive Nole.
Barca is next week isn't it? Casper's a bit of a workhorse, ala Domi Thiem, so he might just want to play so that he's maximising his time on clay. Although yeah, you'd think he'd be keen to focus on Madrid, considering he just took out Novak, Carlitos and Jannik seem to be injured, and Meddy's mind is temporarily gone.
Who will take responsibility???? Casper will !
yeah i feel like he enters every clay tournament just in case he loses early in one of them he at least has another coming up but if he wins this i feel like he should be happy and rest and reset for madrid and rome
I think he will play Barcelona and tank Madrid. Everyone know they won't have chance in Alcaraz's garden. Also, Madrid is not a normal clay and the 330 points in Barcelona is easy to earn
ruud has the head to head on stef and won their only clay match. stef has to be more confident on this court though. should be an interesting match i hope it goes 3 sets
Wouldn't call it the most likely outcome but it's definitely not that weird. Stef's great here and Novak is less great (lol since my source for that is they've both won it twice) and also off the boil.
Jesus today is the most fun I've had all year with tennis besides the AO Semifinals.
We got some umpire clownery, Tsitsi v Sinner which was a great match overall except for the line call, plus Ruud winning! Djoko was just wierdly off, idk what he was on tbh 😭
But this unexpected final lineup!!! What a surprising day holy shit
Novak was better than he’s been most of the year tbh. Think he ended with 31 winners to 32 errors and most errors were in the first set. He was also pretty engaged in the match and fighting and fist pumping unlike Australia.
People will disagree with me I guess, but I still think Djokovic can take some positives from this tournament. I think his level wasn't that bad today, very inconsistent serve aside. Semis is still a decent run at a tournament he sucked at for several years now.
Well, the problem remains that he doesn't have a title yet this year and that probably doesn't sit well with him...Had as good opportunity as any with Alcaraz and Sinner out.
>Semis is still a decent run at a tournament he sucked at for several years now.
Against really shit opponents. Manure played terribly yesterday as did Safiullin in the opening match, and Musetti wasn't much better.
Yeah, i'm very sad of his defeat since i don't think he will do a great year so getting a M1000 right now would have been great.
His level during his tournament was quite average, good against Safiullin but it was easy, average against Musetti, terrible against ADM, but beside the first set against Ruud he was good. I think it was his most convaincing match this year against a high level opponent.
He was about to win if his last smash wasn't so terrible, it threw him off of the rail. He got points and fought decently against a clay specialist, that's a good preparation
Agreed. Not a Novak fan at all, but his performance I think can mostly be attributed to rust. His core game, tactics, touch, etc is still clearly elite. There is no reason he shouldn't have an outstanding season.
How beautiful would it be if Ruud got his first big title at Monte-Carlo after years of shortcomings one year after Rublev got his first big title at Monte-Carlo after years of shortcomings???
I was really hoping Novak would win his 3rd career golden masters tomorrow because I wanted to meme about it, but it wasn't meant to be I guess.
Kinda shows how fucking hard it is.
Is Djokovic is done?
Losing to Ruud a player who had never taken a set from him and gifting the final game with errors and a DF to lose.
I think he might retire soon.
How many weeks at no 1 guaranteed for Djokovic now that DjoSinAlca are out?
Clay Prince, LFG.
If Ruud wins today, it will be the start of the Ruud Clay Era He will become a modern day Thomas Muster However, should he fail today he will never win a meaningful tournament on the surface or for that matter, any surface
If Ruud loses, he will be forever 250 GOAT
Monte-Carlo Tsitsipas giving vibes of Quito Victor Estrella Burgos
Is there a platform/way to watch the Tsitsipas/Ruud match for free tonight? Tennis TV is too expensive, and I really just want to watch Casper's match tonight 😭
You can sign up for a month of tennistv, otherwise there's probably illegal streams but not of high quality..
Theoretically, how could I find an illegal stream of the match hahaha
watching replay of sinner stef match. stef had a tougher road to the SF in terms of opponents
Wonder if Novak want to get 2 500s or 250s title so he can join 100 club. He did it in 2022 after Wimbledon when he goes on crazy winning streak in indoor hard courts.
We will see but idk if he will do that in an Olympic year. Having RG > grass month > Wimbledon > Olympics can be a lot if you go to deep runs. If he is doing anything after Wimbledon it will be joining one clay 250 to get some training for the Olympics.
Nobody loses unlosable sets quite like Cressy. Guy is a magician.
Romania comes back from 0-2 to qualify for the BJK finals!!! HAIDE :D
Incredible finish👏...Ana and Jacqui winning two long singles matches and the doubles!
Because of work, I haven’t had any time for Monte Carlo, but even though I’m late, I had to pop in here to comment on Stef’s sartorial choices. Red shirt and red shorts on red clay? My man was camouflaged.
Also the ball was camouflaged.
It's so weird. Every year there's at least one kit which blends in with the red clay. I don't know if it's to put off the opponent but it makes viewing terrible on tv. Rune's terracotta kit last year was the absolute worst.
So out of curiosity was watching djokovic vs thiem Madrid 2019 SF and djokovic was very lucky in the games were he broke back in both sets. And thiem had another really bad miss we should have been an effortless winner on BP very late in the second set. That would have prevented his third title there most likely. And alcaraz had a shocker of a service game at 4-3 in Cincinnati F as well.
wake-up after having some more sleep and saw Jannik's statement for Madrid, I am a bit disappointed for him not withdraw from that tournament but it is understandable for the huge amount of money he has to give up for the tournament profit share. This boy knows what he should do and he doesn't afraid to tell the true even if it will slap someone's face
Mandatory tournament. Will show up and play a few matches and fly back home🤣
What was his statement for Madrid? Is he playing?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/1c395hs/sinner\_i\_wont\_go\_to\_madrid\_to\_win\_the\_tournament/](https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/1c395hs/sinner_i_wont_go_to_madrid_to_win_the_tournament/)
Is it also to do with a possible knee injury? Saw someone else on the subreddit say he’d hurt his knee against Tsitsipas
I don't think he is injuried and he didn't say anything about that at all, so I assume nothing happened. I think he knows that answer/statement is unnecessary but he just wants to say it, he lowkey loves to slap legend's faces like the organisers of Paris master, Madrid master and Laver cup. Can't wait to see him praising Beijing but shitting on Shanghai Master this year
I’m not really sure what the second paragraph means sorry
It was probably just cramps, or at least he mentioned only cramps during the interview
Ok, hope so!
Cressy taking a medical timeout after scraping his knee on a low volley lol
BJK Cup crazy time: after Bia's win Brasil going with clay specialist Carolina Alves (not Pigossi) versus Laura Siegemund. Deciding doubles: Ukraine with Kichenok twins against xxxxxxx for Romania. Now says Ana Bogdan and Jacqui Cristian.
Ana and Jaqi coming in clutch against Ukraine!! ~~Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of hope for doubles against the Kichenok sisters~~ 😭
I'm just curious, I guess supervisors don't give any f about consequences of umpires making mistakes? Saw nothing of the acknowledgements from anybody official (besides players ofc) of those mistakes or apologies, just straight up ruining mentally the players when they know it's out and it's called in
I don't think I've ever seen a supervisor waddle on and over-rule an umpire.
No offense but supervisors and umpires are professional employees of the tour; really think they knew it was out but called it in? I don't.
Probably no, but post match they can analyze maybe and come to a conclusion that they were wrong Some refs in football come out with those statements and apology that there was a wrong call or a mistake
RUUD NATION LET ME HEAR YALL 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 HE FUCKING DID IT !!!! God I hope he wins this title
JAAAA!!!
This has been building - would be a satisfying narrative conclusion. It's like Ruud gave himself permission, realised he was allowed to play tennis in a more aggressive way, and soon got better because of it.
Politest man alive… had to get permission to play aggressive 😭 I really hope he gets it !!
Dang, the H2H between Casper and TsiTsi is soooooo close really. I'm taking Tsitsi in 3. It's time for something good to happen for him.
IMO djokovic played better in this years MC than last years Rome, only thing he lacked was fitness which he will build up till RG
I think Rome was his 3rd clay tournament last season.
Kinda random but I can’t find any extended highlights of rune vs medvedev in Indian wells on YouTube. So does it not exist or is there a way to watch something like that
I usually root against Djokovic but as soon as Sinner lost I somehow hoped he’d get to the final so that Tsitsi could finally end his losing streak against him and regain some confidence. But I’m also glad for Ruud, he needed it as bad as Tsitsipas!
Damn Zverev really carried that, didn’t know he was so good at doubles.
haha, the madlads actually did it! zverev melo in doubles final tomorrow lets go
Beating Novak fucking Djokovic can NOT be in vain, he HAS to win tomorrow 😭😭😭😭
Saschelo LETS GOOO
Crazy comeback from Zverev/Melo?
In honor of letting Casper win, i have officially moved Novak to the #2 spot of my favorite big 3 member list and #7 on my favorite tennis playing geriatric list 🥰 You will never hear a bad from me about him ever again 🥰
Draqui Cristian trying to take Romania to doubles point rn versus Lesia Tsurenko; none of the other Qualifiers has gone to 5th match yet although Brazil still could.
I’m the worst Dane. I’m so firmly on Team Casper, and him making the MC final means more to me than Holger winning Bercy.
I like Holger too but it’s hard not too root for Casper! Are Norway and Denmark always competitive with each other or do they often support each others athletes because of Scandinavian ties? They kinda seem more like brother nations than bitter rivals like Argentina and Brazil but I’m just American so idrk 😭
It’s definitely a sibling-like rivalry - very cordial The rivalries between Denmark/Sweden and Norway/Sweden? Still pretty friendly, but slightly less so. But it’s pretty cool when any Scandinavian succeeds in major sports internationally - Haaland and Højlund in football, Duplantis in athletics.
That was absolute golden chance for a triple golden masters but Novak just looks flat and demotivated and also gassed The end is near. It’s been a hell of a ride and we will absolutely miss him when he’s gone but when you lose to Casper Ruud, that’s when you know the end is near. He will not lose much sleep over it but a triple golden masters when all he had to do was beat two players who he’s dominated will definitely hurt
>Novak just looks flat and demotivated Have you actually watched the match? If anything he was more motivated than he's been in the previous matches this year. All down to that roar for the 3rd set (brief) comeback.
I did watch the whole of this and De Minaur match. Which part of the flurry of unforced errors in the third set and that double fault to end the match screamed motivation to you?
That’s not from motivation lol. He was def motivated to win this match.
Why did he DF on match point then?
Why does anyone do anything in tennis? It’s not from motivation.. you don’t miss a shot because you’re not motivated enough, it comes down to consistency and skill.
A good day for Tennis. The Italian vultured Beijing, AO and Miami but was exposed when taken off of fast hard court.
You feed on downvotes don’t you?
Can MC not put the camera on the surface of the moon so we can actually see the ball?
it’s called MOONte Carlo for a reason bruh
Oh god… hahahha 😂🤣
Would have been really nice for Djokovic to get the triple golden masters, was pretty upset for a bit but Im kinda over it now. I guess it’s not really that big of a deal. That’s 8 out of 9 masters won at least 3 times and 2 for all. Kinda almost the same thing. And he’s not really in danger of nadal overtaking him in most masters On the other hand tsitsipas vs Ruud/sinner on clay were matchups I was looking out for to see. Also waiting for alcaraz/djokovic vs sinner on clay and rune vs alcaraz on clay (and rune vs zverev anywhere)
Melo choking the set away
Just watched the Sinner vs [Tsitsipas]() match highlights. Looked like such a good match, and both were hitting so well.
It genuinely was a great match! It's a shame that the umpire calls overshadowed the great Tennis on display.
suddenly Z became greatest double tennis llayer ever
Sinner said he felt something “move” in his knee, while up a break in the match. He gutted through it but he had a lot of wild unforced errors after that and his movement looked pretty bad. A mod here deleted the thread on Sinner’s injury and falsely claimed there was another thread already on the topic, which there is not. It’s going to be interesting to see whether he needs an MRI and how much time he ends up missing.
no he said it was cramps he choked
Mod is a Tsitsipas fan, normal reaction.
Tsitsipas will beat Ruud decisively tomorrow, it will be x-rated carnage, destruction the likes of which ye have never seen!
No.
Did smth happen in the doubles match just now when they went to change sides? What was zverev talking about to the ump?
He’s complaining about the LED screens with advertisements being too bright
Casper is a different player when he trusts his backhand and really steps in and hits it. Some of those DTL and even a couple cross-court BH winners were so sweet. Also can keep him in a better position to hit the forehand to finish it off instead of being way off the court trying to run around it and hit the forehand. Rafa used to go to crazy lengths to only hit forehands when he had the legs of an energizer bunny but he became a much more complete player when he improved the backhand and used it as a weapon as well.
Surprised Ruud and Tits only played 3 times
They played one other time in 2016 at the Italy F10 Futures clay court tournament. Tsitsipas won in three sets. https://tennistonic.com/stat-tournaments/?m=atp&tid=13148&p1=30470&p2=33648&Stefanos-TsitsipasvsCasper-Ruud
Stef saved my ass today, hoping he can do the same tomorrow
All things are in Casper's hand: 1) Dverev lost in R16 so Meddy could have higher chance to get his no.4 seed in Rg 2)Sinner won the QF so he could have a higher chance to get the no.2 seed rather than Alcaraz+Rune now fell to no.12, so one more player to prevent Dverev going further in the clay season 3) RG draws Djokovic and Alcaraz in the same half and Ruud stays with Sinner and Meddy 4) Rune beats Djokovic in QF and tires Alcaraz in SF and Ruud beat the tired Sinner/DVerev in SF 5) At least RG runner-up again for Ruud
That’s not how draws work. Seeds 1 and 2 are on opposite sides of the draw, but there’s no way to know on which side will be the other seeds.
Djokovic still accomplished his objective, which is Semi Final at Monte Carlo. And he gets back to 10k points.
Well his real objective was obviously winning the tournament. Honestly sucks as it was the missing #3 for I guess it’s kinda whatever
Hearing that Ruud prayed just to let him win this one time, i'm not at all mad for the ending :D Level was high, many positives to be taken from this match and excited for the upcoming tournaments for Nole.
>many positives to be taken from this match Like the DF on match point?
Ruud himself prayed to God in that moment ;D. It worked. Of course there were mistakes by Nole, but still there was drive, energy and focus like we hadn't seen this season. His first tournament on clay and he looks very good. There's no doubt his level has risen since the poor start of the year. There were some classic Djoković clutchness and some classic Djoković mistakes in this match. Which is very very good, because that Djoković we saw at the start of the year, was far from classic Nole. It was just no drive Nole.
It was a big positive tbh
come on, that’s the only thing you remember from that amazing match?
amazing match where they were serving at 20% and winning a set?
Casper #4 in the race and #3 if he wins. Think he pulls out of Barcelona if he wins?
Barca is next week isn't it? Casper's a bit of a workhorse, ala Domi Thiem, so he might just want to play so that he's maximising his time on clay. Although yeah, you'd think he'd be keen to focus on Madrid, considering he just took out Novak, Carlitos and Jannik seem to be injured, and Meddy's mind is temporarily gone. Who will take responsibility???? Casper will !
yeah i feel like he enters every clay tournament just in case he loses early in one of them he at least has another coming up but if he wins this i feel like he should be happy and rest and reset for madrid and rome
I think he will play Barcelona and tank Madrid. Everyone know they won't have chance in Alcaraz's garden. Also, Madrid is not a normal clay and the 330 points in Barcelona is easy to earn
That's as long as Carlitos can get back on the court by then! His arm was VERY heavily strapped at Monte Carlo.
now zverev doubles sf! enjoy
This is the worst timeline. Z and Stef with good chances for a slam at the French, while Med is coping with a billion finals and 0 trophies. Ughhh
come on be real, Med is not better than them on clay, no need to be salty Med was ass in this tournament anyway, he'll have more chances
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If anything the most worrying thing is how gassed he looks after medium length rallies.
And how many times he went for the ice pack today - it's only 20 degrees C out there! Not hot at all !
Everyone expected a Sinner Novak final then this happened lol, what a shock. Tomorrow final hopefully delivering
If Carlos and Jannik are both injured, I have no interest in watching men's tennis. I'll switch to the less tantrum-prone women.
I’d suggest Ostapenko in a third set in that case
Bye
Sinner seemed to attribute it to cramps so it may not be an actual injury,which is definitely a good thing to hear. Have you watched Ostapenko play?
K
lol if Casper wins tmr, he will pass Dverev and becomes no.3 in the race
One can only dream
Please!
THATS MY GOAT🗣️🗣️🗣️ THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT LETS GO
ruud has the head to head on stef and won their only clay match. stef has to be more confident on this court though. should be an interesting match i hope it goes 3 sets
I am so happy for Casper. Actual tears in my eyes 🥺 he’s my age but that’s my second son y’all 🥺🥺🥺
Stef will win tomorrow and will be back at #6
If we’re being real it just feels right having him in the top 6
After all those heartbreaking matches, I wish this will be his "one of many victories".
Ruud needs to be not terrible at grass to actually fight for Zverev's place in the top 5.
We need him to help Hovland though
Rooting for Casper to get his first M1000
Nobody here had this final, let's be honest. Refreshing just the same, congrats to both and may the best player win.
Wouldn't call it the most likely outcome but it's definitely not that weird. Stef's great here and Novak is less great (lol since my source for that is they've both won it twice) and also off the boil.
The Casper win washes my sadness of Jannik loss, thanks the beautiful Norwegian, I am so proud of him!!!
Happy with the results today and I could even see the ball quite clearly towards the end of the match 😂 looking forward to the final!
Probably because the sun had set and the contrast between the orange clay surface and the tiny yellow ball was better.
if Ruud wins tmr, he is seriously putting a statement to win RG this year
Go Claysper Ruud
I don't know. The competition is tough and best of 5 is different. My money is on Carlos if he's healthy. But Ruud would also deserve it.
He doesn't match up well against Alcaraz I feel
Rune will get the job done for him, he is Ruud's secret weapon
Hopefully, I'm rooting for Ruud too.
Plus we may not have to see more of "would you rather win a masters 1000 or be a GS finalist"
I am ready for Ruud winning a GS before Dverev and Tsitsipas and becomes the second best next gen player...
This is not happening for neither of the 3. baby gen + djokovic and meddy on hard court are just too strong.
Jesus today is the most fun I've had all year with tennis besides the AO Semifinals. We got some umpire clownery, Tsitsi v Sinner which was a great match overall except for the line call, plus Ruud winning! Djoko was just wierdly off, idk what he was on tbh 😭 But this unexpected final lineup!!! What a surprising day holy shit
Novak was better than he’s been most of the year tbh. Think he ended with 31 winners to 32 errors and most errors were in the first set. He was also pretty engaged in the match and fighting and fist pumping unlike Australia.
Oh thats great but he still lost ooof Apparently Novak was the better player overall but Ruud just had the important points down. Wierd match lol
remember when this draw had novak, sinner, nadal, and alcaraz? none of them are in the final.
I mean nadal and alcaraz didn't even play so lets not get too rowdy here lol
right i’m just saying at the time the draw was set, it would be hard to imagine this final
oh yesh for sure
People will disagree with me I guess, but I still think Djokovic can take some positives from this tournament. I think his level wasn't that bad today, very inconsistent serve aside. Semis is still a decent run at a tournament he sucked at for several years now. Well, the problem remains that he doesn't have a title yet this year and that probably doesn't sit well with him...Had as good opportunity as any with Alcaraz and Sinner out.
>Semis is still a decent run at a tournament he sucked at for several years now. Against really shit opponents. Manure played terribly yesterday as did Safiullin in the opening match, and Musetti wasn't much better.
Yeah, i'm very sad of his defeat since i don't think he will do a great year so getting a M1000 right now would have been great. His level during his tournament was quite average, good against Safiullin but it was easy, average against Musetti, terrible against ADM, but beside the first set against Ruud he was good. I think it was his most convaincing match this year against a high level opponent. He was about to win if his last smash wasn't so terrible, it threw him off of the rail. He got points and fought decently against a clay specialist, that's a good preparation
Agreed. Not a Novak fan at all, but his performance I think can mostly be attributed to rust. His core game, tactics, touch, etc is still clearly elite. There is no reason he shouldn't have an outstanding season.
Poor Djoker. He should treat himself to a big steak dinner
The title drought continue for Novak
He already has a gazillion, at this point I would call it gluttony :)
Funny how it was the two “flops” that this sub berates so much that ended up beating the top two seeds
Very funny. And good for tennis that the top 3 players don't just run away with it every time.
They misheard and flopped INTO the finals
It’s mid April and djok has 0 titles so far this year.
He’s played 3 tournaments, all big ones, and made SF in 2 of them
And he still has zero titles 🤷🏻♀️
I mean he’s 37 and was kinda sick/injured for AO. He’s gonna go all out at the slams, Olympics, a couple 1000 and ATP finals
How beautiful would it be if Ruud got his first big title at Monte-Carlo after years of shortcomings one year after Rublev got his first big title at Monte-Carlo after years of shortcomings???
Novak's play has much improved since Indian Wells, hopeful for RG.
Norwegian. The hurdy gurdy language
lol i thought that was swedish
Okay who is the better player on clay Casper or Stef?
Well Casper recently, Stef historically has a better resume though. Should be close.
Very close, although tsitsipas has the better resume so far
As a Ruud fan, that match is everything 😢 hope it will give him more confidence. I've been rooting for him for so long 😭
lol Ruud is so nice even in victory, admitting he prayed for a DF then instantly apologizing — what a nice guy, all the best in tomorrows finals
lmao so true. Everyone would pray for a DF but never say it out loud
😭😭😭😭😭 any other played could never…
Jaaaaaaaaa!! The result we deserved, not the one we expected
Today is a great day people!
so happy for my boy!!
Ofc goes down 0-40 at 4-5 in sets, what are you doing man? And then you fake comeback to 30-40 just to lose with a double fault? Broo........
I was really hoping Novak would win his 3rd career golden masters tomorrow because I wanted to meme about it, but it wasn't meant to be I guess. Kinda shows how fucking hard it is.
this is it, ruud! get this 1000 to silence your naysayers on this sub.
Stats showed Ruud was in great form and it seems stats were right
Ruud finally wins a match against a top 3 player!
Easy volley miss and then double fault. What an awful choke!! I would dare to say that djoker was slightly better player in the third set
He had better moments but Casper was more consistently good throughout
Not Casper saying he prayed for a double fault on match point lmao
any sane person who’s ever played tennis would 😩
Definitely! But most players wouldn’t admit it afterwards but Casper is too real haha
Sooooo… ruud v tsitsipas final? Can’t say that’s what I expected. Rip everyone who bought tickets to the final expecting sinner djokovic I suppose.
JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
RUUUUUUYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUD
Is Djokovic is done? Losing to Ruud a player who had never taken a set from him and gifting the final game with errors and a DF to lose. I think he might retire soon.
LOL Nardi defeated novak. ist time they played against each other
Nah this is just Monte-Carlo Djokovic
I mean he’s going to play this entire season but he’s already semi retired
Surely gonna win one last Wimbledon before calling it quits
Regardless of the outcome in the final, Ruud will be #6 in the world come Monday. Climbing back up.
Lots to defend in the next couple months though, so he probably won't go higher until the hardcourt season.
Great point. Semifinals in Rome (360 points) and Finals at the French (1,200 points) in May alone.
i think im gonna root for casper tmrw, he deserves to beat the atp250 merchant allegations
Ok which one of you has calculated the ranking change if Casper wins tomorrow