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Dominant tournament from Carlos to disprove his HC critics after a failure in the spring HC swing.

Sinner was a level (or two) below his Wimbledon best.

Curious to see if Carlos can transition this form to indoor HC as well.
And Carlos was below his best at Wimbledon. Glad he exorcised those demons (going as far as losing faith back then in that match towards the end).
 
Honestly an abysmal serving performance from Sinner and looked completely flat outside of the 2nd set. 48% and genuinely has not been good the entire tournament except a few good sets. He needs to fix it ASAP or he will struggle to defend Shanghai and Turin.

Congratulation to Alcaraz and his fans for a brilliant slam run. And congrats on getting the top ranking back.

I guess this is needed to motivate Sinner to new heights/wins in the future.
not only serving.. lack of winners, too many UE when rushing at the net, absolutely abysmal level in the final.. but we saw him several times in the tournament playing like this..
 
Well-deserved win. A fantastic tournament from Carlos. Back at #1 and deservedly so.

Sinner looked off the whole match, set 2 aside. At the end, he looked like someone who knew he didn't have a chance today. Whether injury, fitness or mental, I don't know. One thing is for sure, he won't get back to #1 serving at these %s.

I've always been a Sinner fan, but I've never doubted that Carlos is undoubtedly the more talented player. His ceiling is absurd. Now that he seems to have found consistency, it's a frightening prospect
 
Alcaraz is definitely the best player in the world right now - I think he's beaten Sinner SEVEN of the last EIGHT times they've played? I think it's fair to say Alcaraz currently OWNS SINNER. Pretty boring match, never seemed in doubt.
 
Sinner tried in this last game to inflict the same thing that Alcaraz did to him at RG by bringing fire like never in this match before. But Alcaraz was too solid mentally and so far in their careers Alacaraz has that edge.

Does not explain why Sinner's level was bad today but again, Alcaraz was pretty bad and dominated at RG and still found a way to win.
 
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But yeah, the performance Alca had today on service reminded me of peak Fed during 2005-2007. Although, that level Fed produced back there was another world.
 
Anyone claiming Sinner is better, or will be better than Alcaraz needs their heads examined.

Slams 6-4
H2H: 10-5

And Carlos is almost 2 full years younger.

As Alcaraz starts playing with a bit more margin like he did at US Open, he’s unplayable. Too many weapons, too athletic. Clutch. He will continue to own this matchup.
 
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