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Just saw the Women's Final, what a match from Coco. Completely flipped the script on Sabalenka after the first set, Sabalenka is lucky she even won the first set after blowing a 4-1 lead. Gladly happy I was wrong with my prediction, glad Coco was able to get rid of the demons of past Roland Garros's of losing to the eventual winner and then what happened last year with Vekic at the Paris Olympics.

As someone who likes Sabalenka's game/personality, pretty disappointed how she fielded questions after this loss. I get being upset losing at the sport's pinnacle in back to back slams but saying stuff like Iga would win this match v Coco considering the form that Iga has been in 2025 is disrespectful nonsense from Aryna. Not to mention that Coco pummeled Iga at Madrid.
 
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It’s a fair point. I’m guessing it’s in part that Swiatek’s excuse isn’t nearly as ridiculous as Sinner’s. And also that she hasn’t been as dominant as Sinner.
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It's the latter, I troll about the Sinner stuff sometimes but it's evident he doesn't need it be using PEDs to get an advantage or be elite.

If he wins tomorrow, that's 3 straight Grand Slams + clean testing. People are just gonna use it as a gotcha for the rest of his career because they're bitter. I mentioned in the past how WADA should be the ones at fault, they cost Halep her career basically but let Iga/Sinner be able to absolve themselves from the wrongdoing. Tennis players shouldn't be second guessing everything they put in their body, give them a list on what's banned and not banned and make it clean cut that if anything goes into their body with that, it's a year or two ban instead of this grey area bullshit
 
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I'd think that Sinner's consistency will be too much for the more erratic Alcaraz. Plus he's world #1, hungry for his first FO title, has the advantage in the service game... Then again, haven't gotten a single prediction right yet, so what the hell do I know. I hope the match will live up to the expectations!
 
I don't know. Beating a guy four times in a row--you step on the court with an awful lot of confidence. And being beaten four times in a row--you have to have doubts about could it happen again. For Sinner to win this, he is going to have overcome what I think is a pretty significant advantage for Carlitos psychologically. Alcaraz in four.
 
Three break points in the first game. Twice Carlos hits a second serve into the middle of the net and once he hits the lamest approach shot in European history and gets passed. Opportunities wasted.
 
To the question are these guys already better than the Big Three? Both are limited by having the sort of service game that each of Federer, Djokovic and Nadal would be able to exploit over and over again. So, no, they are not yet better. But come back and talk to me when either player develops an elite service game that stacks up well with any of the Big Three.
 
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Carlos is a lot more cunning these days, mixing up speed, height and depth on his groundies.
 
Sinner takes the rather uptight first set, 6-4. Neither of these guys have relaxed yet, but Sinner's less mercurial game weathered the jitters better.
 
Sinner winning that first set is huge for him but Carlos losing sets early is normalcy. Don't think either looked that great the first set so there's definitely a level to increase here for both.
 
Here comes the steamroller? There's a bit of a swagger to Jannik's game that wasn't there in the first set.
 
Sinner keeps forcing Alcaraz wide and then hitting to the open court over and over, one of the most basic plays in tennis. And Carlos seems to have no answer.
 
Sinner serves for the second set and blinks. Wasn't expecting that the way this set has been going. Back on serve 4-5.
 
Great recovery for Jannik after being broken while serving for the match. The magic is elusive today for Carlos.
 
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