Wimbledon 2025

gmisk

Sinner now two sets to one up, deserving of lead

Sandor Clegane

Sinner by far looking the most comfortable, bar a big change title should be his.

SlickRic

This is mostly about Alcaraz's serve.

The quality of the match has been middling, but it's generally even bar the fact Carlos' first serve % has been atrocious, and he keeps trying that drop shot.

whiterebel

Hard to believe its the same player who was almost down and out to Dimitrov.

gmisk

Sinner serving for the championship

What might have been for Dimitrov is interesting...but tbh...he was always pretty likely to blow up at some stage alas.

gmisk

Sinner takes it with a strong service game, despite some stupid idiot shouting when he was about to serve in point before that he then lost. Well deserved.

extra-ordinary_

Fully deserved win for Sinner

klr87

So both the Wimbledon singles champions have served a drug suspension in the past 12 months. Tut, tut …

It's also a first Slam final loss for Alcaraz, a first Italian singles winner (male or female) at Wimbledon, and probably a few other notable firsts as well.

whiterebel

very strange performance from Alcaraz. Did he not play, or did Sinner not let him?

Royale with Cheese

Alcaraz underwhelming, he'll lose to Sinner every single time playing like that.

extra-ordinary_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123631202#Comment_123631202

Yes..Alcaraz totally unconvincing.

klr87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123631202#Comment_123631202

To me, it's worse than Anisimova freezing yesterday, which she has openly admitted to. Carlos is used to slam finals by now, how can he not get up to his full level for this match? Maybe there was something amiss that will come it out time, or maybe not.

Royale with Cheese

He's always had his off days, he won two slams last year and still somehow ended up ranked 3 for the year behind Zverev. I said yesterday maybe the high pressure situations let him keep his level high, apparently not.

Floppybits

Sinner just grinded Alcaraz into submission in that final and it is the difference between the 2. Sinner will just hit stroke after stroke looking to crush the opponent, Alcaraz game has a bit more flair, yes he can hit stroke after stroke but in the middle of a rally he will try a drop shot or come in to try end the point.

Not sure what happened Alacraz after he won the first set, maybe his level dropped or was it that Sinner went up a level and was hitting the ball harder and harder in the rallies and Alcaraz couldn't cope. Be interesting to see how Alcaraz will look to counter this at the US Open, does he need stay in the rallies like what Sinner does and wear his opponent down and sacrifice the flair, can't think of a better word.

As for Dimitrov, he may have beaten Sinner that evening but I don't think he would have won the next match. He would have put so much into beating Sinner that when the next match came as Djokovic says "the tank would have been half empty" and he would have been picked off by the next opponent.

Might actually get some work done now.

hamburgham

He didn’t even seem too bothered about losing. I wonder if he wants more from life than just tennis. Nevertheless, both genuinely respectful towards each other.

I really went off Iga yesterday after seeing the way she carried on after she won. Throwing herself on the ground and dancing around the court after a 6/0, 6/0 win. I know they need a killer instinct but I thought she showed zero empathy for Amanda once she had actually won. After all the great men’s matches over the years, the players always had warm words for each other.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123631770#Comment_123631770

Yeah I’d agree - Sinner had more discipline and focus in his game-whilst disappointing there really wasn’t any hope of Alcaraz wining - I think he’ll need to take on board some lessons from this game - very early days in his career so plenty of time to improve

jj880

Deserved win for Sinner. Those 3 match points at the French Open put well behind him.

Good to see a much shorter wait for the trophies to be handed out at Wimbledon also.

Floppybits

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123631839#Comment_123631839

Oh I'd say he was bothered about losing but wasn't going to show it on court. It will be interesting to see how Alcaraz recovers from this loss like Sinner recovered from his loss in the French.

I can't warm to Swaitek or Sabalenka. I don't know what it is about Swaitek, maybe it's her robotic way on the court or just what seems to be a lack of personality. Sabalenka is easier, I just think she tries way too hard with off court stuff like tic-tok dances and I just comes across to me as trying too hard, a bit like when Djokovic was trying it when he wasn't getting the same affection as Federer and Nadal, it all just comes across a bit cringey. Then on the court the screeching and dramatics, I just can't warm to her.

I know it is not fair but if you look at Federer and Nadal they never did any of that, they came to tournaments and they did their practices, interviews and then played their matches but it was just the way they went about it usually with a smile on their face that was natural and then you see the way they were on the court. I remember I was at the Rome open watching Nadal and Murray playing in a quarter final and Nadal hit a shot he thought was in and as the umpire was getting off the chair Nadal said "it's ok, Andy said it was out" and that was it they played on. That was a great match, 3 sets. I will never forget it.

jacool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123631196#Comment_123631196

Yeah, for this reason alone I was cheering on their opponents.

The way that Sinner was treated with kid gloves, albeit ironic, as "no gloves" was the argument he used to mitigate, and for his ban to coincidentally fall between the slams reeked of preferential treatment. With all the knowledge these people have now, its just as Stan Wawrinka said "I don't believe in a clean sport anymore ...".

Girly Gal

Sinner certainly got preferential treatment, getting a 3 month ban, yet avoids missing a slam - he was 1 point away from holding all 4 slams, while serving a 3 month ban in between! It's not a good look that both winners served a ban over the last 12 months, although Swaitek does at least look plausibly accidental.

On performance both deserved to win and are good champions, Sinner was obviously very lucky to get out of jail against Dimetrov, as he was definitely heading for defeat there, but, sometimes you need luck and he used all his there, he won all his other matches including the final quite comfortably.