I was watching the match this evening, and I don’t understand why Stefanos refuses to flatten out his shots more. Sinner was dictating inside the baseline for a large portion of the match and Tsitsipas was flailing, tennis balls flying everywhere even into the rafters at one point. Good on Sinner, but Tsitsipas was just ugly out there.
I was suprised he did not flatten out his shots seeing it is an indoor event, it was a bit of sweet revenge from the AO they played earlier, when Sinner had all those BPs and failed to convert them. Sinner played well in Montipeller as well winning, he is a very efficient player, a well balanced athlete off both wings, he has a great coach in Cahill, he just has to play the Big Points in GS better,including Masters 1000.
Note the rest of the field I mention still in the draw. Is it a "man" thing that you can't recognize that you were basically wrong?I just heard Sinner was 1-16 against elite players! So yeah, it was an upset! Gawd! Is this another 1 of those woman things; "I need to be right?"
He’s like 2-5 in the h2h now. Good on him. He strikes the ball well off both wings and his serve is effective. My concern is that his body won’t hold up under the grueling schedule. I hope I am wrong.
He did have injury issues last year, sad to say, though I am confident with Cahill he will get him in the gym for strength training,and needs to put on some muscle, though I have noticed this year, his legs arent that skinny lol!, still having a slight build, it dosent hamper his power off his shots
He has been playing a lot of tennis of late, didnt play all that well at Montipeller, I feel the rest is a blessing in disguise.
To me he's got a bit of Grigor in him: results that don't quite match the visible on-court talent. Was it you who once made the remark that Grigor's game had a lot of "moving parts" that might take longer to come together then other young players? Maybe FAA is a bit like that. I mean, if you just look at what he can do on court, he's got elite talent.
But this is the problem, Fiero. I hope we see another guy like the Big Three, and certainly it is possible...I mean, why not? But the problem is comparing every young player to them. 99.999% will fall short. If and when someone comes along and is legitimately comparable, great. But it might not happen - now or ever. And I just don't think we should be comparing every young player to them.
Too eloquent to be me Dude. Maybe GameSetMath, Britbox or Shawnbm. I was never a fan of Dimitrov, for all the beauty of his game, I didn’t think he had the stones to be a top player. I don’t mean to be crude. I am talking about courage, the will to press through the nerves, the doubts, the fears that make it hard to run, breath and hit your shots the way you know you can. Some are born with it, like Rafa. Some come into it like Novak. All the talent in the world cannot compensate for the lack of it.
To me Dimitrov was 'over hyped' and never lived up to his so called potential, agree with your thoughts I am not a fan
