***2025 Tennis Thread***
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Sinner’s elbow still may cause him problems in the next round. But yes, fortunate that he at least gets the opportunity to get that right and play another match.
Djokovic vs Alcaraz 3rd year in a row looks more likely each round. If sinner looks good vs Shelton I maybe change my mind.
Another tough one to add to long list for Grigor. Feels like that could be his last chance realistically to have any shot to win a major. After 2nd set I was thinking he was slight favorite over shelton to get to semis and that went up in smoke
Another tough one to add to long list for Grigor. Feels like that could be his last chance realistically to have any shot to win a major. After 2nd set I was thinking he was slight favorite over shelton to get to semis and that went up in smoke
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Sabalenka through, never seen more forehand slices. Sabalenka vs Swiatek could be a fascinating final.
Shelton hanging around but just not good enough in the clutch moments.
Really excited for Men Semis. For all the early craziness these are the 4 best fast court players in the world. I think both Semis will be competitive. I think Alcaraz beats Fritz in competitive 4 set match and other is a tossup provided both are healthy. I lean Djokovic in 4 but he has to play the huge points incredibly well and probably win any tiebreakers.
Anisimiova can make it 3 for 3 for American slam winners and all different players in 2025. I'll be shocked if swiatek doesn't win this thing though
I'm not saying Djokovic can't, or wont win. But, if you remove their names and just look at the history of their meetings and the last two years, Sinner is a big favorite. He's beaten Djokovic 4 straight times, including the last two time they played in a grand slam. Neither were particularly close matches. Sinner has also won 3 of the last 6 majors (Djokovic has 0).
I see most analysts calling the match essentially a toss-up. I disagree. Djokovic might win, but it will take a decent upset. Sinner will either have to play his worst match in the last 12-18 months, or his elbow has to be a problem. Otherwise I don't see Djokovic winning.
Removing their names is impossible you have to consider that when you have arguably the greatest player of all time. It's the experience of these moments and what his ceiling is in any given match. Like the Olympics final vs Alcaraz last year. There's very few capable of pulling that off and djokovic is 1. He's not going to be as consistent or dominant in grandslams of course but in 1 match he's still just a notch below the best players. He beat Alcaraz in Australia and zverev in the French just this year. I think the last match against Sinner in French was much closer than just a straight sets victory. Djokovic was equal or better for most of 2 of those 3 sets. The Australian open of 24 I agree was much more convincing.
I consider this to be Sinner's worst surface and I assume you'd agree. I think Djokovic should slice like Dimitrov did it really negates those thumper groundies sinner plays with the low bounce. He obviously can't slice like Dimitrov and has a great backhand himself but I think it's just 1 thing sinner doesn't do as well on the grass. Djokovic will get a lot more free points here than he did at the French. You really think it'd be a huge suprise for Djokovic to win? I differ there I'm actually picking Djokovic. If it was any other slam I'd agree with you. Last thing Djokovic can afford is what happened yesterday and losing first set 6-7. Other thing is both players have their own injury concerns so I'm in dark as far as health of each.
All fair points. I still consider Sinner to have about a 75% chance to win.
Agree completely with grass being Sinner's worst surface. I think he prefers a high bounce, so even though clay negates his power a little bit, the ball sits up right in his strike zone nearly every shot. Hard courts give him the best of both worlds, high bounces and decently fast conditions.
The injury thing will be interesting. I've gotta think at least one of them has an injury show up and impact their play. Either Sinner's elbow, or Djokovic's groin? hamstring? I couldn't tell what he tweaked in the final game yesterday.
