This is the 6th consecutive loss that Medvedev has had in a best of 3 sets tournament after he's won the first set.

Rinderknech
Tien
Wu
Walton
Popyin
Moutet

 

Glorious result for humanity. Caught the 3rd set and and thank God Rinder didn't lose the BPs against the Pushbot Whiner at 2-2.

 

Sara Errani should also be happy as the female version of Rinderknech her facial features get some some exposure 😜

 

Just when you thought Med might, just might be getting on the right track he reverted to his default mode of gutless, aimless pushing without even an attempt to change anything and then predictably faltered when it mattered the most — and took it out on Lahyani as if Lahyani is responsible for his impotence and cowardice. Good riddance, really.

Rinderknech played a horrible game to get broken in the first set and generally spent too much time on the baseline. Once he switched it up and started to play many more points at the net and lure clueless Med to the net he took complete control of vast majority of the points. He was still making a number of crass errors (he always does) but since Med doesn't have passing shots — like, AT ALL — it was still the right play. The way he saved half a dozen break points hitting identical second serves to Med's backhand who would either fumble return outright or push it into the middle for an easy putaway was hilarious. Far from his best performance this tournament but it was enough against this version of Med.

 

Rinderknech would win this match 10/10 times.
Medvedev has been mentally unstable in the past 2 years and also Arthur is one of the few midtier players that had sufficient common sense to use SV against Meddy.
I don't get why 80% of the tour refuses to use SV against the Russian.

 

Rinderknech would win this match 10/10 times.
Medvedev has been mentally unstable in the past 2 years and also Arthur is one of the few midtier players that had sufficient common sense to use SV against Meddy.
I don't get why 80% of the tour refuses to use SV against the Russian.

I don't get it either. Djokovic showed a long time ago it's the way it should be played vs. Medvedev. His return position is a killer and his return isn't strong enough (not talking about qualify, but strenght here) to compensate, like Rafa did it for example.

 

Medvedev still has not won a title since May 2023. He has had quite a few good runs since then but has not lifted a trophy

 

Very entertaining result, I'll enjoy the cousin final



It's hard for him, since he's not able to win any tournament twice. He's won Shanghai before so we knew he'd lose either the SF or the F.

At least he'll go down in history as by far the best player who never won any tournament twice or more.

 

My deepest commiserations to all Octopus fans. This MS1000 title was truly in the bag, now 2.5 years ago since his last title in Rome 2023 against Rune, who any idiot can beat in a final. It must truly suck to be an Octopus fan.

 

My deepest commiserations to all Octopus fans. This MS1000 title was truly in the bag, now 2.5 years ago since his last title in Rome 2023 against Rune, who any idiot can beat in a final. It must truly suck to be an Octopus fan.

 

very pleased with this result, i've soured on medvedev after his outburst at the US Open

 

I said I couldn`t see Djokovic winning against Rinderknech in the final and I won`t see it, as predicted.

 

Amazingly, Generation Useless has a chance to pick up a master's tournament.

 

Master tournaments won:

Just five and no member of Generation useless won more than one master's tournament. There hasn't been a Generation useless winner in 3 years, with Pablo Carrena Busta winning one at the age of 31, meaning their window has not yet closed. Rinderknech has an opportunity to add a sixth title. Only one title (Indian Wells), has been won more than once by generation useless, and only 4 of the nine tournaments have been won at all.

Grigor Dimitrov (2017 Cincinnati)
Jack Sock (2017 Paris)
Dominic Thiem (2019 Indian Wells)
Cameron Norrie (2021 Indian Wells)
Pablo Carreno Busta (2022 Canada)
Kei Nishikori (0)
Milos Raonic (0)

 

MedveTrash taken out, good riddance, thanks Rinderknech, enjoy playing the final against your cousin.

Him acting like a total brat to the umpire...wait that is not new, glad that he didn't actually get to the final here.

 

Objectively a great match as Medvedev's FH was the best I have seen in a while and Rinderknech was very clutch on serve. The difference maker is that Rinderknech just used a lot of effective net play that disrupted Medvedev a lot. Medvedev wasted a lot of BPs but Rinderknech unuusally was clutch as I said especially with the T-serve. 1st Set Rinderknech just had a blip game early and Medvedev kept his momentum to hold out the Set. 2nd Set Rinderknech did try to attack to the net more, and made more dropshots — at this time apparently Rinderknech was fighting to at least help Vacherot by tiring out Medvedev as much as he can. Broke Medvedev early but was fighting in each service game but saved all 6 BPs against him. 3rd Set was very tight but less service pressure from both — that is until the final game where Rinderknech found the needed points while Medvedev was gung ho in the pressure points with both saving and losing MPs with risky big serves.

 

Ironically, Medvedev won his only slam, because the opponent had a mental breakdown. I've always considered the Russian to be an overachieving lunatic playing crappy tennis. The guy needs psychological assistance asap.

Medvedev not being able to stay on top, let alone win more major titles, symbolises the problem with men's tennis these days. It lacks a grey area in which a group of players claim their spot behind the dominant duo of Alcaraz and Sinner, especialliy when these two aren't competing. Maybe a guy like Rinderknech can become one of those players? Would be good for the game.

 

Rinderknech is older than Medvedev so hard to see him be a big factor going forward. He has of course played fewer matches, so going by wear and tear he’s effectively younger but not by very much.