[Bumsby]

whoever wins, it took very special DNA to survive the Shanghai conditions.

 

[Carguar]

This is the reason why I love tennis.

(Vacherot would be amazing 🥹)

 

[The Final Boss]

Fully expecting the rock, travis scott and john cena to interfere in this match and cost Rinderknech the title

 

[RUNECARAZ ERA]

Bow down to the Oracle ATPrev

 

[Fogmeister]

Bow down to the Oracle ATPrev

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I always said Zverev is a wise man.

 

[textenfan]

Probably less than 50% chance at the start of the event that these two would be the finalists

 

[YonaMX]

Wow, Sabalenka lost to Pegula?

It's WTA. You can't expect Sabalenka to win every single time, she's pretty much guaranteed a wire-to-wire no. 1 season anyway.
It looks like we won't get a wire-to-wire no. 1 season on the men's side before 2027.

 

[ScrewLace33]

This was as unlikely as the Ymer/Ymer match in Sweden

 

[artoisdesouza]

@YonaMX, in the interests of balance, can we have one other poll option? If one of the options is 'Tennis is in dire straits,' why not also have, 'Tennis wins either way.'

It's been a weird tournament, not the final anyone could have predicted, but hey it's a great story and we needed a change from a Sincaraz final.

 

[Bumsby]

This was as unlikely as the Ymer/Ymer match in Sweden

yeah it’s like the Ymer brothers playing an ATP500 final

 

[Saraya!]

Valentin has to win all.

 

[Harpie Lady]

Rinder 6-4 6-3

 

[laughingcavalier]

I'm watching Coco vs Pergula tomorrow. Should be a higher-level match than this one.

The same Coco Gauff who was involved in a match prior against Paolini where 11 consecutive breaks of serve occurred... LOL!

At least Sabalenka pissed away a double break 5-2 lead in the final set. LOL!

I'd have to give it to Rinderknech simply due to the fact he's beaten bigger name players on the big stage before & might hold his nerves before.

 

[estherglycol]

How cousins are they? 1st cousins?

 

[Darth Alcaraz]

How cousins are they? 1st cousins?

1st cousins. Rinderknech’s mom is Vacherot’s aunt

 

[laughingcavalier]

@YonaMX, in the interests of balance, can we have one other poll option? If one of the options is 'Tennis is in dire straits,' why not also have, 'Tennis wins either way.'

Tennis won't be in Dire Straits until Mark Knopfler confirms it so.

I'm curious to see who Punky has his money on.

 

[Fogmeister]

It's WTA. You can't expect Sabalenka to win every single time, she's pretty much guaranteed a wire-to-wire no. 1 season anyway.
It looks like we won't get a wire-to-wire no. 1 season on the men's side before 2027.

I know, but she was already winning 62 when I woke up. Thought it was going to be 20 easy and didn't bother watching.

 

[Darth Alcaraz]

It's basically Jack Sock vs Filip Krajinovic Paris Masters final

All bets are off.

Even though this tournament was chaotic, that tournament was even more chaotic. Vacherot’s path was pretty difficult and rinderknech’s wasn’t easy either. In Paris 2017, both of those guys only beat one seed on the way to final. Krajinovic also got a walkover against Nadal. Sinner’s injury and Alcaraz’s w/o had quite the effect on this tournament, but I feel like these two finalists still had a tough path to final and didn’t just get there cause the draw collapsed.

 

[RNW]

I was the only one to pick Rinderknech in QF. He has beaten Zverev twice in the last months and is a great player on faster surfaces. Vacherot also showed great tennis as others mentioned. Some comments are a bit irritating. Do you want a Djokovic vs. Medvedev final? Both are miles away from their peak and everyone would have said it is a bad state for mens tennis that those two can still reach big finals...

 

[YonaMX]

@YonaMX, in the interests of balance, can we have one other poll option? If one of the options is 'Tennis is in dire straits,' why not also have, 'Tennis wins either way.'

It's been a weird tournament, not the final anyone could have predicted, but hey it's a great story and we needed a change from a Sincaraz final.

The gap between a Sinner-Alcaraz final and a final between 2 unseeded players in a 96-player Masters tournament is big.
It's not like one of these players was making deep runs before and is unseeded due to injuries, like Ćorić was in 2022 Cincinnati masters; it's not like one of them is a rather young rising star who's having a breakthrough tournament, like Mboko had in this year's Canada masters on the women's side. Both are veterans who have been playing for numerous years, one on the ATP tour and the other mainly on the Challenger tour. So I don't see much to get excited about even from the neutral's perspective.

This is my opinion, you're entitled to have a different one.