Well, this was certainly a surprise for me. I thought the match was surely going to go to the third set. But obviously, that did not happen. Medvedev was able to win the match in the first two sets.
Quite surprised to see how Medvedev played in this tournament from the first rounds to the final. He only occasionally lost focus and was able to return to his best performance, including in the match against Rune, I'm quite sure the second set would go to Rune and the match would be decided via the third set which could have changed the outcome a lot, but Medvedev didn't let that happen and he was able to take his game back well and close out the second set and seal the title for him and it's a first title on clay for him.
This year Medvedev and Rune have been of the players who have impressed, and Medvedev's transformation on clay was truly beyond expectations, and with the results at this tournament Alcaraz will face a big challenge not only from Djokovic who might start to improve at this Grand Slam but also from Medvedev, so Alcaraz's target of getting his second Grand Slam title will not be easy.
Women's tennis is often not to be seen. But I make that assumption if you first watched a game of the men. The difference is very big between men and women in the world of tennis, but isn't that the case with every sport? Men are more athletic and stronger built, as a woman you cannot influence that. By the way, the Williams sisters were quite massive back in the day. They often won with brute force and technique. But there will be no one to dominate the sport as much as Serena Williams did a few years ago. There was little to that either, always 6-1 6-0 or something in that trend.
Not something that can be compared of course, but the women's section still provides interesting things if you like it, some women tennis players play with amazing power like Aryna Sabalenka, and some of them also have serve that are no less fast like the male players, Sabalenka and Rybakina are one of women players who has a fast serve.
I still often watch women's matches and what's interesting is that after the two Williams no longer dominated the competition here it became very open that anyone could become a champion, and also in the men's section it seemed that the same thing was starting to happen after the big 3 were only Djokovic who was still playing