Compared to official ranking It gives information about who you faced, rather than how deep you went on tournaments. The more you beat strong opponents the more your ELO is high. It can’t be as precise as when used in chess, but it’s still statistically interesting.
Monte Carlo: Medvedev
Madrid: Medvedev
Rome: Medvedev
Roland Garros : Medvedev
I see what you did there…
Honestly, the Sinner saw in the previous rounds was way better then the one in the final, but still it wouldn’t be enough to beat this Djokovic. Maybe with a bit of luck he could’ve put it to the third.
The Djokovic seen in semi-final and final has been just… too much. He was like when you play videogames with trick codes and create a 100/100/100… player. Serving like Isner, brutal groundstrokes, he often outplayed Sinner in his favourite aspect, the one that in the previous 2 months allowed him to beat Meddie 3 times in a row and Alcaraz in two sets. This man at 36 is perfection. How is it possible to last this much without dropping your level / eventually crush for injuries? How can your body avoid age?
And I’ll never stress this enough, this is not a weak era imho. It’s just obviously weaker than big-3 one, but a legit era will open when (if?) Novak eventually retire. Alcaraz already proved he can reach extreme levels. Sinner is starting to go big. Medvedev is extremely consistent and made an incredible season. But what can they do when a 36yo granpa plays like the age just improved his few weak aspects? Indoor 100% 36yo Novak can be beaten only by prime Big-3 imho. Just by young himself or young Federer.
Just 4D chess by Gazzetta (in Italy, after the “Davis Cup” incident, it’s well known that they dislike Sinner)
To Medvedev’s credit, he changed things up in the 2nd and began to play tighter to the baseline and drive shots more aggressively at Sinner to try to extract errors. That being said, I think he missed a lot of opportunities to capitalize on the slower, middle-of-box second serves Sinner was tossing him from the late 2nd to early 3rd set. If your goal is to try to pressure Sinner’s groundstrokes, why not apply immediate pressure off a serve you know is going to be soft? I know Medvedev’s groundstrokes tend to be long and require some windup, but he’s got great biomechanics; I don’t see a mechanical reason that bars him from truncating swings and pouncing on 2nd serves.
He effectively used that tactic in Rotterdam final. In general I don’t think there is any mechanical reason for returning so far, he simply is extremely confident from the baseline and thinks that, especially against “high-risk” attacking opponents like Sinner, he can have higher chances to win the point this way. This also was effective against Sinner for long time, now Jannik became incredibly consistent and with more stamina, trying to exchange from the baseline now against him is exhausting. So yeah, I agree with you, and Meddie too probably now. Sinner has a decent but still exploitable second serve, and an opponent need to be assertive when returning because they will not have so many chances to outpower him.
I’m looking exactly for the rule related to a retirement during a match, can you link it?
sans serif jannik
Three controversial but still fucking cool guys
Maybe in 6 years if Sinner keeps growing and Medvedev starts to decrease his level in 5 years, then the h2h might start to lopside in Sinner’s favour.
In the near future I can see Sinner win 50% of their matches but not recovering from a -4
Llama2 for self hosted text-to-speech, speech-to-text, Immich’s AI-powered photo recognition. Hardware transcoding for Jellyfin. These are two things that need a good GPU and might be cool in a self hosted environment imho
Ngl mongoose on amphetamines caption surpasses cringe and embraces pure humor.
I can’t help but laugh everytime thinking to a fucking mongoose with red eyes and dilated pupils chasing balls at net.