Watching Alcaraz you get a feeling he's a 1 in a billion player. Million doesn't cut it for the way he's going about his business. He's his own
man and is doing it his way. It's clear it's all about the slams for
him and also having a good tune-up win leading in. The rest of the time
he treats it like an exhibition tour, no big deal if you lose
meaningless matches/titles, even laugh along the way.
Currently he's 2 time defending Wimbledon and 2 time defending FO champ
- only Borg has ever done something like this. He could be on 7 slams
in about 3 months if the chips fall his way, maybe 8 by AO, all by age 22.
Lehecka gave it everything, great effort sneaking a set out. He uses my rackets so good to see : )
Watching Alcaraz you get a feeling he's a 1 in a billion player. Million doesn't cut it for the way he's going about his business. He's his own
man and is doing it his way. It's clear it's all about the slams for
him and also having a good tune-up win leading in. The rest of the time
he treats it like an exhibition tour, no big deal if you lose
meaningless matches/titles, even laugh along the way.
Currently he's 2 time defending Wimbledon and 2 time defending FO champ
- only Borg has ever done something like this. He could be on 7 slams
in about 3 months if the chips fall his way, maybe 8 by AO, all by age 22.
Lehecka gave it everything, great effort sneaking a set out. He uses my rackets so good to see : )
Whisper kirjoitti 22.6.2025 klo 18.29:
Watching Alcaraz you get a feeling he's a 1 in a billion player.
Million doesn't cut it for the way he's going about his business.
He's his own man and is doing it his way. It's clear it's all about
the slams for him and also having a good tune-up win leading in. The
rest of the time he treats it like an exhibition tour, no big deal if
you lose meaningless matches/titles, even laugh along the way.
Currently he's 2 time defending Wimbledon and 2 time defending FO
champ - only Borg has ever done something like this. He could be on 7
slams in about 3 months if the chips fall his way, maybe 8 by AO, all
by age 22.
Lehecka gave it everything, great effort sneaking a set out. He uses
my rackets so good to see : )
That's why I said he's the goat. Certainly appears way more talented
than Djokovic. The guy has everything.
Different thing if that will translate to more slams. In a perfect world
yes.
On 6/22/2025 12:06 PM, TT wrote:
Whisper kirjoitti 22.6.2025 klo 18.29:
Watching Alcaraz you get a feeling he's a 1 in a billion player.
Million doesn't cut it for the way he's going about his business.
He's his own man and is doing it his way. It's clear it's all about
the slams for him and also having a good tune-up win leading in. The
rest of the time he treats it like an exhibition tour, no big deal if
you lose meaningless matches/titles, even laugh along the way.
Currently he's 2 time defending Wimbledon and 2 time defending FO
champ - only Borg has ever done something like this. He could be on
7 slams in about 3 months if the chips fall his way, maybe 8 by AO,
all by age 22.
Lehecka gave it everything, great effort sneaking a set out. He uses
my rackets so good to see : )
That's why I said he's the goat. Certainly appears way more talented
than Djokovic. The guy has everything.
Different thing if that will translate to more slams. In a perfect
world yes.
I really enjoy watching Alcaraz play. Others I would include:
Draper
Shapovalov
Popyrin
Rublev (court antics)
Medvedev (see above)
Shelton
Djokovic
Fritz (not sure why, just do)
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Scall5 kirjoitti 23.6.2025 klo 1.41:> On 6/22/2025 12:06 PM, TT wrote:>> Whisper kirjoitti 22.6.20
No way I enjoy watching Medved. I can watch a highlight of his
crazy moments later.
You will be surprised, I would watch Alcaraz and Dimitrov and at
times I can watch Sinner.
On 6/23/2025 12:24 PM, PeteWasLucky wrote:
TT <[email protected]> Wrote in message:r
Scall5 kirjoitti 23.6.2025 klo 1.41:> On 6/22/2025 12:06 PM, TT
wrote:>> Whisper kirjoitti 22.6.20
No way I enjoy watching Medved. I can watch a highlight of his
crazy moments later.
You will be surprised, I would watch Alcaraz and Dimitrov and at
times I can watch Sinner.
I can watch Sinner and usually find myself cheering for him. I think he
has maximized his true potential and not many can say that.
On 24/06/2025 9:07 am, Scall5 wrote:
On 6/23/2025 12:24 PM, PeteWasLucky wrote:
TT <[email protected]> Wrote in message:r
Scall5 kirjoitti 23.6.2025 klo 1.41:> On 6/22/2025 12:06 PM, TT
wrote:>> Whisper kirjoitti 22.6.20
No way I enjoy watching Medved. I can watch a highlight of his
crazy moments later.
You will be surprised, I would watch Alcaraz and Dimitrov and at
times I can watch Sinner.
I can watch Sinner and usually find myself cheering for him. I think
he has maximized his true potential and not many can say that.
Yeah I think he has reached his peak. If he can stay near this level
for a few years he'll do very well. Carlos has also upped his overall
level with a beefed up serve, produced 33 aces in his last 2 matches a
record for him. Even served 4 in a 1 game. He needs Sinner around to
keep him sharp and improving. Sinner is at 95-100%, it feels like
Carlos is at about 80%. Sinner at 100% and Carlos at 80% feels like a
toss up, so if Carlos can play 90%+ v Sinner and in slams in general
he'll win just about everything. The only question is how long can he
keep up this explosive level? Maybe 3 more years, then he'll have to
evolve other styles/tools to stay at the top. I've got a feeling he
won't be winning slams in his 30's so let's see how much he can win in
the meantime. I'm guessing, barring injury, he'll average 5 slams every
2 years going forward, so 20 slams overall by age 28? It would be remarkable if he can beat at least 1 of the big 3 in slams. He has 5 but needs 20 more to beat Novak. Seems impossible even for him, but we'll
know more in a couple years.
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