Volley of the year hands down

 

the slice was so effective today

 

 

Alcaraz is just too good in this tournament. He had a dip at the start of the second set but it didn't last long.

Sinner meanwhile was still plagued by a poor first serve, which I believe affected the rest of his game to counter Alcaraz brilliant attacking play. Few dropshots from Alcaraz, he was that confident in his ground strokes. In Wimbledon Sinner served much better and that set the tone for the rest of his game.

 

Few dropshots from Alcaraz, he was that confident in his ground strokes.

No, it's because on this court unless you nail your dropshots you pay the price. As was seen quite a few times for both players.

 

What a morose start to a USO FInal result thread.

Congratulations to Alcaraz...once again taking Dopiner out in a final 🔥

 

 

I've thought about it, and I might also become a bit of an Alca fan along with Sinner/Med fan until the end of this year 😆

 

I checked the Live Rankings, and the first thing that gained my interest was the massive gap between the 2nd and 3rd spot. Alca and Jan are light-years above the rest at the moment.

 

The official rankings are out, no need for live ones from the 3rd placed site. 😆

 

Congrats to Carlos and his fans. What a dominant run this was!
Sinner wasn't very convincing this tournament, while Alcaraz was cruising. The result is not surprising and just. In his baby days, he used to lose because he brought too much energy and got too excited. But that's exactly what it takes to win slams against top class opponents, and nobody does it better than him.

Funnily, predictions once again got it wrong because of Jannik's HC resume. Today's players are universal, and surfaces are not varied enough to create 'specialists'. Some can have a stronger case in certain conditions, but there are many factors affecting that, and the margins are too small to draw simplistic patterns such as 'A is a HC specialist'; 'B is a natural surface specialist'. We just really like our neat little boxes where we store everything in perfect order, so it's easily accessible and processable.

Sinner needs to sort out his serving, which comes and goes, and puts him under constant unnecessary pressure. I believe he can and will do that.

 

I can not believe that Alcaraz served so excellently while Sinner had trouble serving, especially this tournament in semis and final.
2023 I really thought Alcaraz' weakness is his serve, which was also true but they worked so hard on it to fix that, it is really mesmerizing.
Sinner needs to work on his serve and his stamina/health. They are this good that they will always improve each others game.
At this point, you could argue that Sinner should have won RG. That gives Alcaraz not only 2 GS titles this year but also an edge mentally.

 

Great win by Alcaraz

 

The final yesterday reminded me of two pimpled juniors competing to see who could hit the hardest and with absolutely no finesse. A very boring game and even worse speeches.

 

To be a champion is though. Sometimes it takes a lot, you need a certain character ( look at Djokovic) to be able to deal with the pressure and all. But look at Carlos, the sweetest champion possible. He is so gentle, sweet and adorable. This is truly beautiful, especially after the way Djokovic showed standards that if you are a champion, you need to be the villain. It is refreshing. Not to mention that even Sinner( except the doping fiasco) is also very nice character.

 

Alcaraz looked one level above Sinner the entire match (and tournament). Really impressive from him, Sinner did well to even win a set.

 

Definitely good to see Sinner's reaction to the loss in the interview, I think he is drawing the right conclusions. Serve, unpredictability and volleys are definitely areas for him to improve.

 

At least Alcaraz dropped a set during this run. It would've been a nightmare for hard court tennis had he won without losing a set. He's not that good on hard courts, even when playing his best.

I thought Djokovic worshippers did not care about this particular stat, citing it as meaningless?

Nadal's six wins were four RG (05-06-07-08),
one Wimbledon (08)
one AO (09)

Djokovic's first six were 4x AO, 1x Wim, 1x USO
Federer's first six were 3x Wim, 2x USO, 1x AO

So on the surface Carlos has the most rounded resumé of the four - all three surfaces covered and equal distribution between them

 

I thought Djokovic worshippers did not care about this particular stat, citing it as meaningless?

Djokovic's first six were 4x AO, 1x Wim, 1x USO
Federer's first six were 3x Wim, 2x USO, 1x AO

So on the surface Carlos has the most rounded resumé of the four - all three surfaces covered and equal distribution between them

At 7 slams, the only one to be so balanced was... Wilander (Let's keep in mind that Borg had no option on HC before.. US Open 1978, and finally, 4 possible attempts until 1981 (with 3 finals anyway..)

3 clay RG 82-85-88
2 grass AO 83-84
2 HC. AO 88, US 88 in an era that can be described as... "specialists"

Carlos's 7th will inevitably be... on one of the 3 surfaces.

I don't know where my preference lies.
A first AO, for having won all 4 slams. (well, even if it maintains the trend... that he will "never" do anything at the AO (..), I am not sure that it really excites me actually)..

..or defending the US Open next year.

That's a long way off, let's see how the end of the season goes.

 

No DC for Carlitos this week.

 

6 Slams at 22. Back at #1. I am so so so happy and proud. And what an amazing and lovely young man he is.

 

Congrats to Alca on 6th slam and #1, he was clearly the best player this tournament and looked extremely determined to win his first hard court slam for a long time. Deserved win.

As for Jannik, he was far from his best, imo he wasn't prepared to this tournament as he wanted due to that Cincy illness and it showed in that match. Especially serve was very subpar, which was the key why this match was quite one-sided. Hopefully serve will come back during Euroasian autumn swing. Onwards.

 

Alcaraz did play better leading up to the final, and was clearly better in the final as well. With Alcarac seemingly stabilizing on a very high level, Sinner will need to step up from what was seen in USO. While his matches against Bublik and Musetti were good, overall, he was not close to the Alcaraz level.

 

 

Hey Sinneboltards, at 5:40, reference made to your Robot needing 'Reprogramming'

Even Sports reporters insinuating that your Robot needs more special 'lubricating creams'

So how does it feel to be Creamed by your opponent?

Meanwhile, whats up w/ under 6'0 Karl serving like prime Ivo/Isner while running faster than even compatriot Claydal?

 

Just listened to Sinner's post-match conference. Pure class. His attitude will make him even better in the future

 

 

There's a chance AO courts will get slower in the future. There were days they were quite slow. Anyway, I still retain my doubt on Alcaraz's capability on quicker hard courts, USO this year is not quick enough.

Lol it was indoors and he hit 40+ winners to Sinners 24