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It is amazing how Alcaraz has Sinner so crossed up. A master class in using both sides of the court.

Ruud (7)
Zverev (4)

Alcaraz (3)
Sinner (2)

Zverev in 4.
Alcaraz in 5.

Tough loss for Sinner.
In a Sinner match-up with Alcaraz, I think clay is the surface that most tilts things in Carlos' favor.
Gotta believe Sinner would like a rematch on grass, or on hard courts at the U.S. Open.

Zverev leads Alcaraz 5-4 head-to-head, but I am sure Alcaraz is favored in this final.
This will be Zverev's 2nd major final. He made it to the 2020 U.S. Open final, and lost in 5 sets to D. Thiem.

I'd like to see Sascha Zverev win this one, and I do think it is possible, but I cannot predict it.
Put me down for Alcaraz in 5 sets.

Check out the short skirt on Jasmine Paolini. Don't know why you guys aren't into women's tennis.

I can appreciate fit women in skirts.

Because the women and men play at the same venue, and in the same time period, during majors, a casual fan can get the impression that women's tennis and men's tennis is sort of the same thing.

It's not.
It is like the WNBA vs. the NBA.

There is no comparison in speed, power, and overall playing ability.

Watching the women generally does very little for me.

Screw_Michigan wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 1:32 pm Check out the short skirt on Jasmine Paolini. Don't know why you guys aren't into women's tennis.

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Softball Bat wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 4:10 pm I can appreciate fit women in skirts.

Because the women and men play at the same venue, and in the same time period, during majors, a casual fan can get the impression that women's tennis and men's tennis is sort of the same thing.

It's not.
It is like the WNBA vs. the NBA.

There is no comparison in speed, power, and overall playing ability.

Watching the women generally does very little for me.

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Why does Alcaraz's serve grunt sound like when Joe Pesci dies in Goodfellas?

Alcaraz' grunting, like Nadal's, is very close to being over the red line, imo.

Well, at times, both of them do go over the line.

Alcaraz finishes the job. Pretty much ran away with it in the final set. What a freak. He's 21. That blows my mind.

Carlos is an Aussie Open win away from completing the career grand slam -- winning each major at least once.

Only 8 men in tennis history have won the career grand slam.

Fred Perry
Don Budge
Rod Laver
Roy Emerson
Andre Agassi
Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
Novak Djokovic

Pretty exclusive list.


No Sampras. No Borg. No Connors. No Lendl. No McEnroe. No Kramer. No Tilden. No Gonzales. And many others...

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 10:11 pm Carlos is an Aussie Open win away from completing the career grand slam -- winning each major at least once.

Only 8 men in tennis history have won the career grand slam.

Fred Perry
Don Budge
Rod Laver
Roy Emerson
Andre Agassi
Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
Novak Djokovic

Pretty exclusive list.


No Sampras. No Borg. No Connors. No Lendl. No McEnroe. No Kramer. No Tilden. No Gonzales. And many others...

There's no such thing as a career grand slam.
There's winning the 4 majors by the time your career comes to sn end. But that's not a slam by any means.

"Career grand slam" is a "dummy" term made to placate dummies.

What makes a grand slam is being able to win ALL 4 majors in a given year. In other words, ONE tennis season, a calender year.

It's such a remarkable achievement, that it's extremely rare.

But I digress..........

Borg already had 11 majors by age 25.
Then he retired. Just walked away.
Gotta admire the stoic swede for leaving his mark on the game.