With the top 3 absent are the younger replacements able to to deal with the
pressure and expectations put on them?
Yeah, I guess the pressure on him in this game, Medvedev and then Tsitsipas and now Rublev, so we are right after all the the supposedly young generation who should take the torch is not yet ready even if the big 3 is not present in this tournament.
have predicted such a match up?
Indeed, but I'm hoping to see Sinner to win, he already proven himself at a young age.