Emanuele Atturo
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On the one hand Sabalenka, Sinner and Zverev and on the other Alcaraz, Rybakina and Djokovic.
The quality was very high, as the rest promised the final of a tournament in which the two of them were by far the best two players, the ones who played better, who hit the ball better, and they managed to express it in the final, which was a really high-level final.
It's very true, I agree a lot with what you're saying.
Sabalenka won 4 slams and lost 4 slams finals.
And she played these eight finals after a long period in which she always lost in the semifinals.
And I agree that this final, among the four losses, is the one that should leave her less regrets, because she lost against a very strong player who has a percentage of wins against top 10 of 60%, of over 60%.
describes very well the player she is, that is, a player who is perhaps not constant, who suffers a lot from physical problems, who needs to fit in quite rare variables to best express her own tennis, which, however, when in shape, is almost unbeatable.
And so it is true that Sabalenka has little to reproach, because three years ago she beat Ribakina,
Among other things, at the Australian Open, winning his first Slam.
And giving rise to this Sabbalenca era of the WTA, right?
But this path, which is still extremely contradictory, even quite dramatic, interesting to watch, because we said 8 slam finals, 4 victories, 4 defeats, often defeats against opponents...
that he could or should have beaten, in some ways.
And still a solidity, a consistency of performance that has not always been awarded, certified by the titles.
I read an absurd statistic, absurd, completely absurd, to which I did not believe, Rybakia in a strip of over 100 games in which he has won at least one set in the slams.
It's a line that obviously has no equals, not even in the male, not even Nadal or Djokovic have come this far.
And it's incredible that this line has produced only four slam victories.