Ferrero coached an excellent match today

[Spielgame]

No one’s saying JCF was responsible for Sinner’s dreadful first-serve percentage. Just genius.

I noticed when I watched Sinner playing a few years ago he often missed first serves. He's got such a weird ball toss and trophy position.

 

[Subway Tennis]

Cahill was outcoached here. Not the first time he has been left wanting for ideas and not preparing his charge suitably for a major final. He left Simo Halep completely rudderless several times in big finals too.

Several times in the final it looked liked JCF was playing 4D chess and Cahill was playing checkers.

 

[Sudacafan]

I admire how JCF mandated Carlos haircut, enhancing his aerodynamics. Brilliant.

 

[Sudacafan]

Cahill was outcoached here. Not the first time he has been left wanting for ideas and not preparing his charge suitably for a major final. He left Simo Halep completely rudderless several times in big finals too.

Several times in the final it looked liked JCF was playing 4D chess and Cahill was playing checkers.

JCF was never outcoached, even when he did nothing.

 

[Kralingen]

All about those margins, champ. JCF is now welcome to join the Yabbie Creek motorcycle club.

Marinakis saw this post.

 

[Incognito]

Have to give credit where credit is due. This matchup was all about the margins and adjusting to the conditions. If I had to sum up the match, two areas of play defined it: Carlos’s slice staying low and his defense-to-offense being more lethal than Jannik’s defined the match dynamics.

Most of Sinner’s point winning comes from forcing pace of play and overwhelming opponents who can’t deal with his pace and depth. Ferrero an encouraged him to neutralize this by using more margin over the net on running FHs defensively, as Sinner was more tentative than usual coming forward. Carlos’s strategy of putting more margin on his replies, via slice and the arched FH, combined with his mutant athleticism neutralized Sinner’s strategy brilliantly.

I noticed Sinner’s hip giving him problems on some low balls vs FAA, unable to produce the same pace off neutral slices leading to misfires, and JCF clearly got Carlos to adjust after the 2nd set, using the slice BH to notice this as well, make the BH-BH rallies unsustainable for Sinner.

Finally, we’ve really figured something out with the serve. Carlos has the wide serve down pat now and his footwork and discipline on staying home vs Sinner’s returns was so much better today than at Wimbledon. He didn’t just lazily come forward today, he either stayed back or came to volley with a purpose. Good job cutting the fat from the service games.

An amazing victory and fully deserved. My hats off to Juan Carlos Ferrero and team. If he coached like this all the time, I would never complain.

Except Ferrero did none of that. It was all Carlos becoming a more matured player. He realized he needed consistency and also not spend 5 hours to win every match. He was fresh as a daisy in the final.

I say get rid of JCF asap!

 

[Incognito]

As for Sinners hips, that's at the top of my list for what ends up derailing his prime.

Kinda like Raonic’ wide hips.

 

[Incognito]

Sinner was clearly injured causing one of his worst serve displays. So this match is not a good example for long term predictions

He seems to be injured everytime he faces Alcaraz

 

[MichaelNadal]

He seems to be injured everytime he faces Alcaraz

 

[SonnyT]

Excuses, excuses! Didn't you hear Sinner's Italian coach was saying that everything was perfect! We didn't come up with excuses after Wimbledon.

Anyway, Alcaraz had won 5 out of 6 matches.

Correction: Alcaraz had won 8 out of 9 matches.

Can you imagine Sinner going 1-8 against anyone else, dead or alive? With two on RG & one on US!

 

[vive le beau jeu !]

Have to give credit where credit is due. This matchup was all about the margins and adjusting to the conditions. If I had to sum up the match, two areas of play defined it: Carlos’s slice staying low and his defense-to-offense being more lethal than Jannik’s defined the match dynamics.

Most of Sinner’s point winning comes from forcing pace of play and overwhelming opponents who can’t deal with his pace and depth. Ferrero an encouraged him to neutralize this by using more margin over the net on running FHs defensively, as Sinner was more tentative than usual coming forward. Carlos’s strategy of putting more margin on his replies, via slice and the arched FH, combined with his mutant athleticism neutralized Sinner’s strategy brilliantly.

I noticed Sinner’s hip giving him problems on some low balls vs FAA, unable to produce the same pace off neutral slices leading to misfires, and JCF clearly got Carlos to adjust after the 2nd set, using the slice BH to notice this as well, make the BH-BH rallies unsustainable for Sinner.

Finally, we’ve really figured something out with the serve. Carlos has the wide serve down pat now and his footwork and discipline on staying home vs Sinner’s returns was so much better today than at Wimbledon. He didn’t just lazily come forward today, he either stayed back or came to volley with a purpose. Good job cutting the fat from the service games.

An amazing victory and fully deserved. My hats off to Juan Carlos Ferrero and team. If he coached like this all the time, I would never complain.

 

[junior74]

@Kralingen is a reasonable and humble poaster.