On 28/01/2024 12:37, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's
champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.
What a great performance!

I am so glad he won! :-)

br,
KK

Jannik is a monstrous talent, a threat on any surface. He is much better than Berdych types. The Sin was so close to beating Alcaraz at the US Open and that was when he had a shit serve. He's a much improved player now. You can see why Carlos talks
highly of him. They are gonna have great matches. Hopefully, Rune can also get in the mix. The results of Alcaraz and Sinner will surely push him further.

Meds had a small opening in the 4th when Sinner's 1st serve percentage became shit, but Jannik is just too good off the ground, powerful and consistent. Meds should be proud of himself. He put up a good fight and is an entertaining character.
https://i.imgur.com/DxADWE3.png

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Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's
champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.
What a great performance!

I am so glad he won! :-)

br,
KK

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On 28.1.2024 15.00, grif wrote:

On 28/01/2024 12:37, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's
champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.
What a great performance!

I am so glad he won! :-)

br,
KK

Jannik is a monstrous talent, a threat on any surface. He is much better
than Berdych types. The Sin was so close to beating Alcaraz at the US
Open and that was when he had a shit serve. He's a much improved player
now. You can see why Carlos talks highly of him. They are gonna have
great matches. Hopefully, Rune can also get in the mix. The results of Alcaraz and Sinner will surely push him further.

Meds had a small opening in the 4th when Sinner's 1st serve percentage
became shit, but Jannik is just too good off the ground, powerful and consistent. Meds should be proud of himself. He put up a good fight and
is an entertaining character.
https://i.imgur.com/DxADWE3.png

73% points won on the second is absurd.

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On 28/01/2024 13:31, Pelle Svanslös wrote:

On 28.1.2024 15.00, grif wrote:

On 28/01/2024 12:37, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's
champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.
What a great performance!

I am so glad he won! :-)

br,
KK

Jannik is a monstrous talent, a threat on any surface. He is much better than Berdych types. The Sin was so close to beating Alcaraz at the US Open and that was when he had a shit serve. He's a much improved player now. You can see why Carlos talks

highly of him. They are gonna have great matches. Hopefully, Rune can also get in the mix. The results of Alcaraz and Sinner will surely push him further.

Meds had a small opening in the 4th when Sinner's 1st serve percentage became shit, but Jannik is just too good off the ground, powerful and consistent. Meds should be proud of himself. He put up a good fight and is an entertaining character.
https://i.imgur.com/DxADWE3.png

73% points won on the second is absurd.

https://twitter.com/rodlaver/status/1751584815600791935

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Sawfish <sawfish666@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r

On 1/28/24 5:00 AM, grif wrote:> On 28/01/2024 12:37, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:>> Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's>> champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.>> What a great performance!>>>> I am so glad he won! :-)>>>> br,>> KK>
Jannik is a monstrous talent, a threat on any surface. He is much > better than Berdych types. The Sin was so close to beating Alcaraz at > the US Open and that was when he had a shit serve. He's a much > improved player now. You can see why Carlos

talks highly of him. They > are gonna have great matches. Hopefully, Rune can also get in the mix. > The results of Alcaraz and Sinner will surely push him further.I've watched Rune play and he has loads of athleticism and talent, but what I haven't seen
yet is the requisite level of desire to be the best.Maybe it will come.>> Meds had a small opening in the 4th when Sinner's 1st serve percentage > became shit, but Jannik is just too good off the ground, powerful and > consistent. Meds should be proud of
himself. He put up a good fight > and is an entertaining character.> https://i.imgur.com/DxADWE3.png>>-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Favorite tattoo: BORN TOULOUSE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I don't feel you can prove it.

The guy is young and cocky of course he wants to be the best.


I mean would you say that young Djokovic "didn't want to be the best"?

That's the reason he wasn't the best when he was 21 or 22?


It's a learning process and a long path of improvement.


Hasn't Sinner stagnated for a year or two? Would you only attribute that to his "desire"?




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On 29.1.2024 0.06, Court_1 wrote:

On Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 7:37:25 AM UTC-5, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's
champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.
What a great performance!

I am so glad he won! :-)

br,
KK

Wow! I watched the first two sets live and when I saw that Medvedev won the first two sets, I went to sleep. I figured I'd wake up and see a Medvedev win in straights. I recorded it so I'll have to watch it and see how things progressed.

I'm glad Sinner won too. It's much better for tennis moving forward to have multiple players who are capable of winning slams.

Yes. There's a couple of pretty cool match-ups now in tennis. Djok,
Sinner, Alcatraz, Z, Rune, Mom, B, ... A while back it seemed Alcatraz
had everything in the bag already.

I always called him nothing but a ball basher but he's really come a long way

I had him consigned to the clown bin not too long ago. A clown with
bazookas too big for his own good. I never saw anything of this AO, but
he played like a maniac against Djok at the YEC RR. And took him out of
the bin. I like the AO follow-through. Hope he stays on course.

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On 28/01/2024 15:24, grif wrote:

On 28/01/2024 13:31, Pelle Svanslös wrote:

On 28.1.2024 15.00, grif wrote:

On 28/01/2024 12:37, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's
champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.
What a great performance!

I am so glad he won! :-)

br,
KK

Jannik is a monstrous talent, a threat on any surface. He is much better than Berdych types. The Sin was so close to beating Alcaraz at the US Open and that was when he had a shit serve. He's a much improved player now. You can see why Carlos talks

highly of him. They are gonna have great matches. Hopefully, Rune can also get in the mix. The results of Alcaraz and Sinner will surely push him further.

Meds had a small opening in the 4th when Sinner's 1st serve percentage became shit, but Jannik is just too good off the ground, powerful and consistent. Meds should be proud of himself. He put up a good fight and is an entertaining character.
https://i.imgur.com/DxADWE3.png

73% points won on the second is absurd.

https://twitter.com/rodlaver/status/1751584815600791935

Maybe Fritz's girlfriend was onto something https://twitter.com/mariasharapova/status/1751726101976768659

For reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmvptQJo0o

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On 29/01/2024 7:31 pm, Pelle Svanslös wrote:

On 29.1.2024 0.06, Court_1 wrote:

On Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 7:37:25 AM UTC-5, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote: >>> Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's

champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.
What a great performance!

I am so glad he won! :-)

br,
KK

Wow! I watched the first two sets live and when I saw that Medvedev
won the first two sets, I went to sleep. I figured I'd wake up and see
a Medvedev win in straights.  I recorded it so I'll have to watch it
and see how things progressed.

I'm glad Sinner won too. It's much better for tennis moving forward to
have multiple players who are capable of winning slams.

Yes. There's a couple of pretty cool match-ups now in tennis. Djok,
Sinner, Alcatraz, Z, Rune, Mom, B, ... A while back it seemed Alcatraz
had everything in the bag already.

I always called him nothing but a ball basher but he's really come a
long way

I had him consigned to the clown bin not too long ago. A clown with
bazookas too big for his own good. I never saw anything of this AO, but
he played like a maniac against Djok at the YEC RR. And took him out of
the bin. I like the AO follow-through. Hope he stays on course.

Before AO I predicted Sinner would win AO and Wimbledon this yr, Carlos
will win FO easily prob without dropping a set. Will look at USO closer
to the date.

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undecided kirjoitti 29.1.2024 klo 16.51:

On Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 7:37:25 AM UTC-5, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

Hah hah! Sinner is the Australian Open men's
champion 2024. He came back from two sets to love down.
What a great performance!

I am so glad he won! :-)

br,
KK

So, what's so special about Sinner?
What I saw in the AO final is a very low error percentage. His shots are extemely safe with a lot of margin and shape. That's where Meds failed. Meds is usually the wall but in the final he dumped way too many of those flat backhands right into the net.

After he (meds) got tired.

I'd say that Sinner was hitting the ball exceptionally well. You could
even hear it from the sounds of ball hitting.

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On 30/01/2024 3:32 am, Sawfish wrote:

On 1/29/24 2:18 AM, The Iceberg wrote:

On 28/01/2024 18:33, Sawfish wrote:

On 1/28/24 10:22 AM, *skriptis wrote:

Hasn't Sinner stagnated for a year or two?

Me, I've never seen him throw in the towel, even while he was losing
big matches.

  Would you only attribute that to his "desire"?

His desire was never in question to me, as it is with Rune.

Rune, like Sabelenka, can prove sufficient drive. We'll see.

yes this is an interesting point, haven't seen Sinner give up, he's
got nervous and choked/folded but he hasn't given up which is what
Rune's attitude seems to at times, a bit like Safin and Kyrgios?

I haven't seen enough of Rune to be sure, but yep, when talking to my
wife last night about the up-and-coming guys, I mentioned Rune and
Kyrgios in the same breath.

Rune is much better than Kyrgios, it's not even close. Rune's baseline
game and backhand are world class, tier 1. Nick's bh is tier 6 and
baseline game tier 7. Nick does have a tier 1 serve though.

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On 30/01/2024 8:38 am, jdeluise wrote:

Pelle Svanslös <pelle@svans.los> writes:

Yes. There's a couple of pretty cool match-ups now in tennis. Djok,
Sinner, Alcatraz, Z, Rune, Mom, B, ... A while back it seemed Alcatraz
had everything in the bag already.


I had him consigned to the clown bin not too long ago. A clown with
bazookas too big for his own good. I never saw anything of this AO,
but he played like a maniac against Djok at the YEC RR. And took him
out of the bin. I like the AO follow-through. Hope he stays on course.

I am in the same boat here. I was excited about him a couple of years
ago, even posted about it here a few times. But then I started seeing
him lose big matches seemingly meekly and I started to think that he
didn't have a winner's attitude on court. I wouldn't say this win "convinced" me yet, I think he had a lot of chances to lose the match.
But it's definitely a step in the right direction!

It's true Sinner's progress has been relatively slow, but he has been
improving constantly if you look closely. A couple yrs ago he wasn't
happy where he was relative to where he thought he should be so sacked
his entire team and hired a new one. He's quietly motivated and
confident. He's an introvert and very methodical, seemingly has all the
tools to be top 2 or 3 (Alcaraz, Rune) for 10+ yrs. Alcaraz at his best
is a better player, but he won't play his best all the time so Sinner
and Rune should win a few slams, barring any new super talents emerging.

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The Iceberg <iceberg.rules@gmail.com> wrote:> It a great shame Meds didn't win cos then the > AO would have a been a wonderful glorious victory > for Russia and Mr.Putin with Belarus winning > the ladies by thrashing the Chinese girl!Your delusions are

massive. Your medicationneeds to be changed.1) Medvedev has said that he admires the Frenchsociety. France is a strong democracy. He doesnot have the guts to condemn Putlerlandia becausehe is afraid of the safety of himself and hisrelatives etc. Medvedev
is one of the goodguys out of there, just like Rublev.2) Sabalenka has been brave, she has comdemned the war. I fully support Sabalenka.br,KK


Everyone condemn Biden's war.
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The Iceberg <iceberg.rules@gmail.com> wrote:

It a great shame Meds didn't win cos then the
AO would have a been a wonderful glorious victory
for Russia and Mr.Putin with Belarus winning
the ladies by thrashing the Chinese girl!

Your delusions are massive. Your medication
needs to be changed.

1) Medvedev has said that he admires the French
society. France is a strong democracy. He does
not have the guts to condemn Putlerlandia because
he is afraid of the safety of himself and his
relatives etc. Medvedev is one of the good
guys out of there, just like Rublev.

2) Sabalenka has been brave, she has comdemned the
war. I fully support Sabalenka.

br,
KK

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