Tennis: French Open 2025

[kihei]

Carlos Alcaraz
This year winning % on clay: .938; career: .825

Jannik Sinner
This year winning % on clay: .833; career: .720

Pretty impressive for Sinner.

 

[kihei]

3-1 as Carlos breaks in the third set. This is quantum tennis: all narratives are possible.

 

[kihei]

And this set Carlos can't serve it out, back on serve 4-5 again.

....but Carlos breaks right back at love for the set.

Now this gets really interesting.

 

[VMBM]

3rd set Alcaraz. Sinner still, say, 70—30 favorite imo.

 

[Bourque]

Coco Gauff responds to Aryna Sabalenka over ‘not fair’ French Open final claim

In an extraordinary press conference, Sabalenka claimed Gauff would have lost to Iga Swiatek and said the French Open winner had been ‘framing’ balls during the final

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It was fun to see Coco be the calm, cool professional. Saby's a great player. Hopefully she won't be that emotional in future major semis or finals. I don't wanna see another great player getting so emotional and stopping herself from winning the way Serena did after winning her 23rd major.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Sinner needs to end this in 4, either his body is not dealing with this amount of tennis and Alcaraz's momentum will be too much.

Pretty shocked at the 5-4 game from Sinner in the third set but Alcaraz made some great plays in that game but I thought Sinner gave him the first 2 points of said game.

Should be a white knuckle finish here

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Sinner break but Alcaraz is an elite breaker, can't have your guard down here if you're Sinner

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

What a nails hold down 3 championship points, Jannik got loose there up 40-0. Gotta end it on your serve now

 

[Bourque]

Alcaraz!

 

[kihei]

Carlos saves three match points in a fourth set that Sinner has dominated. At least, Alcaraz makes him serve it out.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Willing to guess that Alcaraz breaks here lol

 

[VMBM]

"The moment Sinner blew it?" Certainly starts to look like it. But still a lot of game left.

 

[kihei]

Oh, my god. For the third straight set one or the other can't serve it out, and now Carlos has improbably evened the set.

 

[Bourque]

Character & tenacity perseveres.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Sinner's toast if he loses this TB

 

[kihei]

Christmas comes early. A fifth set. Ain't this fun.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Yeah, I don't see Sinner's pathway for a win here. Bejing tiebreaker all over again where Sinner started good and Alcaraz snuffed him

 

[kihei]

I don't care who wins this match. I don't want either to lose.

 

[Evilo]

One of the best RG final ever. The quality of the play and the momentum swings... Wow.

 

[Uberpecker]

Why do they keep showing that unnecessary Beckham jr. dude as if he had any importance to this game

 

[kihei]

Character & tenacity perseveres.

I know Sinner is going to have to live with this stuff for the rest of his life. But I don't think he did it. I don't see anything else in his character that even remotely suggests that he consciously would cheat in any way, shape or form.

 

[Bourque]

I join my former home France in celebration. Sinner looks tight. Carlos looks loose and relaxed.

 

[Evilo]

I know Alcaraz is going to have to live with this stuff for the rest of his life. But I don't think he did it. I don't see anything else in his character that suggests that he consciously would cheat in any way, shape or form.

You mean Sinner?

 

[Savi]

Currently vacationing in Italy, watching the SF with some locals was great, but right now they're getting kinda depressed

 

[kihei]

Look at the symmetry of the set scores: 6-4, 7-6. 4-6, 6-7