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but he won the following 2 sets.
On Tsitsipas, is it my imagination or does he seem to do better in the lesser
competitions rather than the grand slams? I definitely think a lot was expected
of him last year but has only 2 titles and more expected this year. I think he is
good to win Rotterdam, he should beat either Rublev or Felix AA IMO.
Also in grand slams he can reach far, but Tsitsipas is not always consistent. He reached 3 times the semifinals on AO (also this year) and already reached the final in Roland Garros. I think it is a matter of time before he wins his first grandslam.
Tsitsipas is never consistent. He is so called one of the best in the world but cannot win any tournament. All of his points are from finals or semi finals. He dosent have that winning mentality to win a big tournament or even any tournament but he is still in top 10
Yeah, I can attest to that, been betting on him for quite some time but there are times that he is a complete letdown. He really needs to go over the hump of winning a big tournament and let him overcome that mental problem.
Now that he won against Jiri Lehecka an move to the finals, I hope that he can win his first tournament for this year against Felix AA.
Tsitsipas is a bit similar to Medwedew, he also has very bad games at times when you would never expect him to perform so badly. I wonder if we will ever get to see consistent players like the 3 GOATs. That level of consistency is just insane. Right now I doubt that there is anyone out there who could even get close to the three and deliver for more than a decade.
In fact, we have had players in the history of tennis who have played at a top level for a long time, such as McEnroe, Connors, Sampras ... but it has never happened that we have the three greatest tennis players playing at the same time.
We will probably never see something like that again, in any sport.
From other tennis news, in the second semifinal of the Rotterdam tournament, Auger-Aliassime also beat Rublev in three sets and will play in the final against Tsitsipas.
In the final of the tournament in Dallas, Opel will play against Brooksby and in the final of Buenos Aires, Schwartzman will play against Ruud.
There you go, Tsitsipas lost it. He is definitely failing because he is bad at controlling his emotions. Players like Federer, Nadal and Djokovic all have in common this quality that they can even defend five match balls in a row while looking quite relaxed doing so. That is just insanity and deserves endless respect.
As you said, having world starts playing during the same era is beautiful for fans, but a rare thing. Messi and Ronaldo in soccer is one example, but even there a third player was never able to seriously establish himself while two were at their prime. Nobody can really compete with Hamilton these days in formula 1 even though he didn't win the last title. In any sport it is all too often a single person dominating it. In tennis we as fans were very lucky to see three players winning 61 major titles in roughly 15 - 17 years. That means essentially every single major title went to one the three players. Insanity!
