Is tomorrow the day Alcaraz finally loses to a player younger than him?

Will he?

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Winner Sinner said:
Yeah okay, bye.
He discovered the two positive tests between the end of Miami and the beginning of Monte Carlo.
He already played in Monte Carlo knowing about the news and it doesn't seem to me that he decided to retire.

I thought you were a more serious poster than others, instead you're the usual spiteful conspiracy theorist, ergo, I'm just wasting time arguing.
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Hip didn’t seem to bother him throughout RG.
Also didn’t seem to bother him shortly after the the French open SF to win a 500 grass court title.
 
dking68 said:
Yet he claims I don’t back my statement with objective opinions. Fils should have won today. I was wrong, but I believe my prediction was a solid one. I actually make very bold predictions and when I get them wrong, I’m often times very close.
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In fact, your thread turned out to be absolutely well-founded.
 
dking68 said:
Yet he claims I don’t back my statement with objective opinions. Fils should have won today. I was wrong, but I believe my prediction was a solid one. I actually make very bold predictions and when I get them wrong, I’m often times very close.
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You don’t.
Even your Draper prediction was a wild guess bc alcaraz was dominating and IW was his to lose going in. Lol

How should fils have won that match?
 
ChrisJR3264 said:
You don’t.
Even your Draper prediction was a wild guess bc alcaraz was dominating and IW was his to lose going in. Lol

How should fils have won that match?
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Draper was the biggest threat to the IW title, if you watched his matches, he wasn’t dropping sets. He was clinical. Plus I already told you, he defeated Alcaraz in straights at Queens in 2024.
 
dking68 said:
Draper was the biggest threat to the IW title, if you watched his matches, he wasn’t dropping sets. He was clinical. Plus I already told you, he defeated Alcaraz in straights at Queens in 2024.
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No doubt Draper pulled off the upset.
But alcaraz was just pummeling his draw. Adding the fact he recently pummeled Draper before retiring in AO on hard court and Draper being irrelevant after USO SF. And already has been irrelevant since IW.

Add in the fact IW conditions suited alcaraz who also wasn’t dropping sets and thus throttling his opponents - I stand by you taking a wild guess then bragging about it.
 
If alcaraz continues to play like this then yes sinner will wallop him hard on all surfaces at this rate when he returns. This isn’t even alcaraz’s 2024 form much less his 2023 form

I’m not even sure alcaraz gets by Minaur here if that is the final. Fils should have took alcaraz to the cleaners straight sets today. But alcaraz prolonged it and fils inexperience showed
 
TennisGrandpA said:
When TtW mocked @dking68 , Sampras Bruguera and Neutral fan they kept hyping him even he had zero slams, not many saw his incoming dominance ( @Hitman was the only non Sinner fan who saw it)
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Ok? And I said to myself alcaraz was gonna be a great player when I watched him at the 21 USO beating Titsipas ….I had similar feelings in sinner but it took him a while to get things together.

There’s no bragging. No one really knows.
It’s also way too early to say either of them get anywhere close to BIG 3 prime level or end of career accomplishments.

No one knows how either turn out. Heck in two years Fonseca could dominate the tour. That talent is there and he seems quite mature for his age too. But we don’t know.
 
ChrisJR3264 said:
Ok? And I said to myself alcaraz was gonna be a great player when I watched him at the 21 USO beating Titsipas ….I had similar feelings in sinner but it took him a while to get things together.

There’s no bragging. No one really knows.
It’s also way too early to say either of them get anywhere close to BIG 3 prime level or end of career accomplishments.

No one knows how either turn out. Heck in two years Fonseca could dominate the tour. That talent is there and he seems quite mature for his age too. But we don’t know.
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Well,in hindsight anyone can say anything but @dking68 predicted total dominance when Sinner had zero masters and losing to Stef and mugs in early round of slams, learn to give credit where credit is due. There are countless pre 2024 threads on ttw where Dking was mocked and ridiculed but he has been proven right.
 
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ChrisJR3264 said:
Ok? And I said to myself alcaraz was gonna be a great player when I watched him at the 21 USO beating Titsipas ….I had similar feelings in sinner but it took him a while to get things together.

There’s no bragging. No one really knows.
It’s also way too early to say either of them get anywhere close to BIG 3 prime level or end of career accomplishments.

No one knows how either turn out. Heck in two years Fonseca could dominate the tour. That talent is there and he seems quite mature for his age too. But we don’t know.
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Heh, heh, I'll brag a bit too - when in Rome....
I knew Roger was going to be great when he beat Pete at Wimbledon in the 4th round in 2001. I've enjoyed the skills of many players over the years but watching the 2021 USO 3rd round win by Carlitos was my next sense of a potential great player after Roger. The sense I speak of is not one of certainty - how can it be. Which is why the (tedious) ramblings and near desperation of some to 'prove' themselves right / to 'prove' how good their favourite is, leaves me cold. In sports, there is nothing as obtuse as the hankering for certainty that some have.

Turning to this topic, Fils is an excellent talent, will be interesting to see how he develops his career. In the qf at MC, the comms on TennisTV.Com considered it to be the match of the tournament so far. Anticipating that these 2 and a few others will be crossing swords often, looking forward. As for Carlitos, dude acknowledges he's on a learning curve. What he/any other player WILL achieve is known only to Destiny, at once the smiling benefactor or ruthless assasin, depending on the moment in question. I'll leave it to when he / others have concluded their careers to judge who was the most successful of the current crop.

As the thread title seeks to juxtapose age, methinks it's entirely appropriate (though also possibly gratuitous on my part, but why waste a good opportunity! :-D) therefore, to compare achievents at Fils age of 20. Carlitos had already won 9 ATP titles by the time he was 20. including 2 ATP 250 at Buenos Aires & Umag; 3 ATP 500 titles at Barcelona twice and Rio de Janeiro; 3 Masters 1000 at IW, Miami and Madrid and a GS at the USO. Fils has won Lyon ATP 250, Hamburg ATP 500 and Tokyo ATP 500. In my view, when comparing the ages of opponents it might be relevant to also compare what they respectively achieved at the younger players age. The obvious caveat that players develop differently is a given.
 
TennisGrandpA said:
Well,in hindsight anyone can say anything but @dking68 predicted total dominance when Sinner had zero masters and losing to Stef and mugs in early round of slams, learn to give credit where credit is due. There are countless pre 2024 threads on ttw where Dking was mocked and ridiculed but he has been proven right.
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His serve/gameplan improvements could have been predicted; his fitness improvements less so.
 
TheGoldenEra1990’s said:
If alcaraz continues to play like this then yes sinner will wallop him hard on all surfaces at this rate when he returns. This isn’t even alcaraz’s 2024 form much less his 2023 form

I’m not even sure alcaraz gets by Minaur here if that is the final. Fils should have took alcaraz to the cleaners straight sets today. But alcaraz prolonged it and fils inexperience showed
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Alcaraz played WAY better at 2025 AO, than at 2024 AO.
Its not even close :giggle:
And Alcaraz was 15-4 by April 2024, exactly the same record as 2025, except this time Alcaraz has a full clay season (last year Alcaraz only played Madrid, which he lost in the QF, so hardly any preparation for Roland Garros).
And Sinner has no answers for Alcaraz's variety, and everybody knows it.
Alcaraz won't suddenly try to blast Sinner off the court with power, their match-up is set in stone forever...
 
Tallawah Tennis said:
Heh, heh, I'll brag a bit too - when in Rome....
I knew Roger was going to be great when he beat Pete at Wimbledon in the 4th round in 2001. I've enjoyed the skills of many players over the years but watching the 2021 USO 3rd round win by Carlitos was my next sense of a potential great player after Roger. The sense I speak of is not one of certainty - how can it be. Which is why the (tedious) ramblings and near desperation of some to 'prove' themselves right / to 'prove' how good their favourite is, leaves me cold. In sports, there is nothing as obtuse as the hankering for certainty that some have.

Turning to this topic, Fils is an excellent talent, will be interesting to see how he develops his career. In the qf at MC, the comms on TennisTV.Com considered it to be the match of the tournament so far. Anticipating that these 2 and a few others will be crossing swords often, looking forward. As for Carlitos, dude acknowledges he's on a learning curve. What he/any other player WILL achieve is known only to Destiny, at once the smiling benefactor or ruthless assasin, depending on the moment in question. I'll leave it to when he / others have concluded their careers to judge who was the most successful of the current crop.

As the thread title seeks to juxtapose age, methinks it's entirely appropriate (though also possibly gratuitous on my part, but why waste a good opportunity! :-D) therefore, to compare achievents at Fils age of 20. Carlitos had already won 9 ATP titles by the time he was 20. including 2 ATP 250 at Buenos Aires & Umag; 3 ATP 500 titles at Barcelona twice and Rio de Janeiro; 3 Masters 1000 at IW, Miami and Madrid and a GS at the USO. Fils has won Lyon ATP 250, Hamburg ATP 500 and Tokyo ATP 500. In my view, when comparing the ages of opponents it might be relevant to also compare what they respectively achieved at the younger players age. The obvious caveat that players develop differently is a given.
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I wasn’t actually being serious on that first part. Obviously many saw what most do in players early on. Just don’t come here and gloat.

And agree on the statistical analysis. There was none other than starting a thread to make a wild guess based off nothing really.
 
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