Tennis: TENNIS: 2025 Edition -- Game, Set, Match
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In two entertaining but sloppy matches, Carlos and Musetti make the Monte Carlo finals. In the first match, Carlos and ADF traded nuclear-grade groundstrokes all day, with Alcaraz finally pulling away 7-6, 6-3. Fun to watch but a lot of miscues. Meanwhile, Musetti came from behind to knock off Demon in three sets, the final set being a tight tie breaker that was necessitated when Musetti failed to serve out the match at 5-4.
Still like Carlos to win this thing. He is 3-1 lifetime versus the Italian.
Still like Carlos to win this thing. He is 3-1 lifetime versus the Italian.
Carlos wins 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 against Musetti. A sloppy first set was followed by an absolutely brilliant second set by Alcaraz and a third set that was an anti-climax as Musetti injured a thigh muscle in the first game of the deciding set and was non-competitive the rest of the way.
Carlos' superb play in the second set helps to obscure the fact that he won a 1000-level event by playing very inconsistent tennis much of the week. I watched all his matches, and it often seem to me that Carlos '25 had plateaued, that the problems that had bothered him in the past had become not areas of weakness to be addressed but permanent features of his game.
His game still possesses the amazing strengths: speed, power, agility, variety, off-the-charts creativity. But his weaknesses seemed no better: his inability to hit his spots on serve, his sometimes questionable point management, his inconsistency. His strengths belie the fact that he spews unforced errors at an alarming rate these days, a Denis Shapovalov rate. And his serves too often land shallow in the service box making them easy to return even when they are coming in at high speed.
He can raise his game to stunning heights, but he is no slam dunk to win Roland Garros, even given the fact that his game is better suited to the best-of-five sets format because such matches give him a longer runway to make adjustments on the fly. I'd still take Sinner to win in Paris even though he will have less time to prepare than his competition.
Carlos' superb play in the second set helps to obscure the fact that he won a 1000-level event by playing very inconsistent tennis much of the week. I watched all his matches, and it often seem to me that Carlos '25 had plateaued, that the problems that had bothered him in the past had become not areas of weakness to be addressed but permanent features of his game.
His game still possesses the amazing strengths: speed, power, agility, variety, off-the-charts creativity. But his weaknesses seemed no better: his inability to hit his spots on serve, his sometimes questionable point management, his inconsistency. His strengths belie the fact that he spews unforced errors at an alarming rate these days, a Denis Shapovalov rate. And his serves too often land shallow in the service box making them easy to return even when they are coming in at high speed.
He can raise his game to stunning heights, but he is no slam dunk to win Roland Garros, even given the fact that his game is better suited to the best-of-five sets format because such matches give him a longer runway to make adjustments on the fly. I'd still take Sinner to win in Paris even though he will have less time to prepare than his competition.
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Felix has done it again. For the 10th (!) time since late January of last year, FAA has lost a three-set match after winning the first set. During this period, his record after winning the first set in a three-set match is an astounding 3-10.
He had to work hard to blow this one. He made 29 unforced errors in the second set and blew a break lead at 4-3 in the deciding set before losing the breaker to Navone. This is serious head-case material.
He had to work hard to blow this one. He made 29 unforced errors in the second set and blew a break lead at 4-3 in the deciding set before losing the breaker to Navone. This is serious head-case material.
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but a lot of typical results going around on clay, excited for Madrid and RG very soon. Carlos and Iga should sweep the events they play until then
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