ATP M1000 Monte Carlo 4/9 - 4/16 2023

[ponchi101]

If Rune thinks the next Big 3 are him, Alcaraz and Sinner (they aren't, but let's go with the delusion), does he realize he's the Djokovic personality that will be the least liked of the group? He stays acting like brat.

And now we are only waiting for Ringo/Andy...

[ti-amie]

The Rune vs Sinner match was good but at one point in the third set Sinner lost a game to love I think and I thought to myself that he was tiring.
Rune won 1-6, 7-5, 7-5

[ti-amie]

Sunday, April 16, 2023 Day 9

Court Rainier III Starts At 12:00 Noon

F
(5) Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek VS (WC) Romain Arneodo/Sam Weissborn
Not Before 2:30 Pm
F
(6) Holger Rune VS (5) Andrey Rublev

[ponchi101]

Of course, ESPN down here cut to Italian Football and did not show the Sinner/Rune match. So I can't gauge anything.
Tomorrow: Rune in three?

[ti-amie]

I'm hoping Andrey in two. If it goes three Ponchi is correct.

[JazzNU]

Of course, ESPN down here cut to Italian Football and did not show the Sinner/Rune match. So I can't gauge anything.
Tomorrow: Rune in three?

That sucks, sorry you didn't get to watch.

I don't want this to be the case, but I'd go with the brat in straight sets if I had to pick. If it's 3 sets, that would be a good sign to me that grumpy but likable Andrey has a better chance in this match than I'm thinking.

[ashkor87]

For the next 3 years at least, the big 3 would be Djokovic, Medvedev and Alcaraz...people seem to think Djokovic and Medvedev are retired!!

[ponchi101]

Nope. We haven't forgotten. And, Rune said he would like to be part of a new Big Three, down the road. He made no claims he, or Sinner and Alcaraz, already are.

[ashkor87]

Nope. We haven't forgotten. And, Rune said he would like to be part of a new Big Three, down the road. He made no claims he, or Sinner and Alcaraz, already are.

By the time Djokovic and Medvedev leave, anything could happen ..as Djokovic rightly said, 'nextgen' is us ..

[JazzNU]

Yes, that's correct, he was talking about the future. For me, I reject the mere idea. Maybe this group will warrant a moniker in the future, but they aren't anywhere near worthy of being considered in the same convo as Murray let alone the Big 3. So head down, get to work, win a boatload of grand slams and Masters 1000s, and when you don't win, be in the semis of the grand majority of events that you enter, and we shall see. For now, I don't want to hear it. Tsitsipas, Zverev, Raonic, Nishikori, Kyrgios and Dimitrov are some examples of players that came after that were all supposedly going to be the next big thing and seriously challenge the aging Big 3 at the majors and there's not a single grand slam title among them to date. Let's see where we are in 5 years and then 10 years. Pipe down until you've done significantly more.

[JazzNU]

For those that didn't get to see the match, if you see that Sinner was less than pleased with Rune at the end of the match. Here is why. As they say in the video, it happenened twice in the match.

[Deuce]

^ I don't know what happened on the first one, but I see absolutely nothing wrong with the one in the video. Sinner hit a shot that looked to be 6 to 8 inches beyond the baseline, and Rune, of course, had to play it because it wasn't 2 yards out.
This happens about 10 times in every match between any two players.
And Sinner even walked into the path of the ball.

As usual, much ado about nothing...

[ashkor87]

Yes, too many players hit loose balls, after the point is over. Even at the club level ..I have been hit several times, once in the eye, by a stray ball after the point was over- you drop your guard...quite dangerous ..Rune should have been defaulted..he missed, is that a virtue,? Djokovic did get defaulted...

[ashkor87]

Sinner doesn't seem to move as well on clay as he does on hard...Rune moves much better..Sinner seemed not totally stable sometimes when he hits the shot..

[Suliso]

Sinner definitely does better on hard courts, but he did have a chance in this match too...