← Served with Andy Roddick
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Tennis Analyst 1
Everyone, welcome to Quick Served. Shooting this as the speeches are being made and listen, if you have a pulse, you have to respect the redemption story that we saw today from Yannick Sinner. I'll tell you when I think I'm right. I'm going to tell you when I'm wrong. I did not see it going that clearly in Sinners direction on this surface. I just really didn't. He played such a tactically sound match, pulled, pulled the trigger at the right times up the line, but dominated the middle of the court right. What can he do is consistently create pace and speed through the court without needing, you know, the variety and the spins that, that Carlos Alcaraz has mastered. We talked about it yesterday. If he extends the court sideline to sideline, that also allows Carlos to mix it up a little bit. Did an amazing job hitting behind Alcaraz when the backhand line was available right would stick one cross court with the forehand and then if Carlos hit a good ball, I mean it was late when he broke in the fourth set. The two shots that he hit to break serve maybe two of the best backhands considering the circumstances that you'll ever see. Fading away off his back foot. Carlos kind of going from forehand, you know, and then leaning left because that's where any normal human could could hit it center, forces it line and hits a clean winner against the fastest guy on earth on a tennis court. So that's one and the next one gets a Second serve, kick to the back end, going away from him, finds space line and finds like a shot path flat where it's almost like going away from center and it lands inside the service line, right? It was just those two shots. My, my jaw was on the floor like it was just phenomenal. And listen, people are gonna, we're, we're gonna nitpick at the, you know, Carlos, was it his best serving day? Absolutely not. You know, and that created a lot of space for Sinner to kind of control the, the, the complex of the, of the points a little bit more. But also the two serves that he hit. And listen, after what happened at Roland Garros and then to have Alcaraz 1540 on his serve when he's, you know, two holds away from the Wimbledon title, hitting two massive serves that catch the back fifth of the box to the forehand side, up the radar gun to 110 plus just clutch as clutch can be, right? And you could see, you could see Darren Cahill standing up and down like everyone knew it, right? And they haven't faded away from the fact that, you know, what happened to Roland Garros, like, yeah, we're just going to go, go on with it. I mean, listen back to the episode we did with Darren in the, in the fallout. And it was just, listen, I'm a huge fan of both, both of these guys. I'm happy for all their successes. Couldn't have been more impressed with Yannick Sinner. You know, he's carrying, you know, the physical load of trying to beat Alcaraz on this surface, his third final in three years and winning two of them. And then you can talk about how you've moved on from Roland Garros. That scar tissue doesn't go away just because you want it to, right? Overcoming that, that mental scar tissue, especially in that fourth set, was just an amazing, amazing display of grit, belief and will ultimately, you know, be the redemption story. And, and what a, what a summer of, of European tennis that, that we got to see. You know, these two are 22 and 23. We get to see this for another decade, Mike.
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Tennis Analyst 2
I know, to think, right, we, we finished with one, facing two in, in the two Slams, right, in a five week period. But all of the stuff that happened in between there over the past two months has just been, it's been incredible. And I mean, the takeaway for me is, you know, center, I don't think had an ace until maybe the third set, you know, and Carlos had 15 aces compared to eight, you know, and, but really? You said something to me on the phone. We were, we were talking kind of mid match. You know, you said that center was really just trying not to get, allow Carlos to get to that second serve of his so he could step up. Can you explain a little bit more about that? Because I, I once you said that, I started to realize what you meant by that strategically.
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Tennis Analyst 1
Well, listen, people are gonna be like Carlos was double faulting and he absolutely was. Carlos Alcaraz, if he's playing producer Mike will go years without missing a second serve. Right. It is a byproduct of, of, of what's happening and reacting to the center of things on the other side of the court. It looked like Sinner was a little bit more conservative with his first serve. Going to bigger targets with, with the pace not resulting in first serve, but putting more of a premise on that serve plus one. But that's, I'm guessing that's a decision that was made because they didn't want Carlos dancing on second serves. Right. He didn't want to have to defend it over and over. And he did a great job defending it. I mean, we already mentioned this insanely. Just nuts like melons serves in the, in the fourth set to Carlos's forehand. He was also trying to spread the court a lot on that deuce side. Right. You could tell that if he got pinched, he wanted the space on that first ball. Even when he was kind of the chips were down in the four set, he was taking it it wide Isner, James Blake, Marty Fish and I are on a group text and you know, when matches like this happen, you know, obviously we all start chirping. I gotta give credit to Isner, man. He was, he was all, all aboard the center train this morning. Right. I don't, you know, I don't like to give, give him credit those guys credit for anything. And so I have to, I have to doordash pizzas to his house later tonight because he knows more than I did today about this matchup and certainly saw something that I didn't. One of the other things that I think was really smart from Yannick Sinner and kind of this, this storyline of controlling the middle of the court with as much pace as possible is it kept the movement a little bit mitigated, right. Like he wasn't opening up the sideline to sideline. Alcaraz moves better on a grass court. Right. It's a little bit more fluent, but it just wasn't at as much of a premium because Yannick did such a good Job of controlling the middle of the court with pace, which you have to against Alcaraz, it makes everything tougher, including the best drop shot in the world. It is hard. We've said it earlier this week, techie Sean and I were talking about in one of the quick serve episodes. It's really hard to drop shots when the pace is increased right when you're set and someone has to split, step and sink to play defense. It's a little easier to maneuver it when it's coming off of a ball like Sinner was hitting today. It makes it a lot more challenging, right? You have to hit it further. You can't hit these deaf little shots. You need that kind of like check step from your opponent to pause to then make it the most effective version of himself. So, you know, Sinner did a couple of things right, kept him away from second serves, made it to where it wasn't a movement contest, sideline to sideline by virtue of pace. And also that pace largely covered up Alcaraz's ability to hit those drop shots. You know, I think that, you know, if we're nitpicking, Carlos probably could have abandoned that, that play a little bit earlier. It feels like he stuck with it. I think he went like three out of nine attempts on, on drop shots, which, listen, we're, we're, we're all dummies. He knows how to use it. It's just, it's a lot easier from where we're sitting than in real time, you know, but those, those little margins make, make a massive difference in this. And now, you know, Sinner's getting to the, to his best surface. It's hard, it's weird to say when he was. Had match points at Roland Garros and kind of really, really dominated at times this, this Wimbledon final. And now he gets to his favorite surface of hard court. So we can take a little bit of a breath, right? It's not going to be on us in two weeks, but, man, I'm just full of gratitude and appreciation. Something I said after Roland Garros for, for these two, and I hope we get, you know, the new normal of, of, of these guys playing till 35, 36, 37, 38 years old, we'd certainly be. Be spoiled for choice at that point. But Carlos Alcaraz also lost his first Grand Slam final ever. Like, how, how impressive is that, right? I mean, that's just amazing. There's a lot to be proud of if you're in the Alcaraz camp. You know, he's Going to win. It's funny, I remember being at the US Open the first year that Alcaraz won, and going into, like, the quarters, the hype machine was. Was rightfully just out of control. Right. People. People come out to me go, is this guy going to win 10 majors? And they would say it. I'm like, man, like, let's, like, Borg won 11 majors. Are we just going to hand this kid 10 majors nonchalantly? Like, I have a hard time doing that and going there. And if you tell me if he's going to win majors, yeah, he's going to win majors. Just throwing out 10, you know, 12. Is he going to match the big three? I'm going, that's crazy. Easier to sit here now and say, you know what? He's going to win 10 majors.
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Tennis Analyst 2
I mean, we might see these two guys in New York in the same setup. I mean, it's just the way they both play.
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Tennis Analyst 1
Sure.
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Tennis Analyst 2
I mean, like, why, like, why not? If they're healthy?
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Tennis Analyst 1
Yeah. I mean, Sinner. Sinner's going to be the overwhelming favorite when you. When you get back to a hard court, for sure. You know, he's. He's been dominant on that surface, you know, and we said, you know, the whole game, we've talked about it before in the show is can they steal these titles from the other's favorite surfaces? Right. Can he steal one on clay at Roland Garros? Can he steal it on grass, which, you know, has largely been Carlos's domain for the last three years. He's beaten, you know, Novak the last two years to kind of take the mantle from him. And now Sinner got in and stole one. Ken Carlos go to New York and steal one from. From center. Center Chicken Dinner. But with. With all that he's had to go through mentally in the last. The last year, I mean, my sigh of relief would have been a lot louder than what. Than what Sinner did. I mean, I would have been screaming to the heavens, you know, a mixture of joy, relief, anger, you know, all of those things. But he's classier than most, I'll tell you that. So is Carlos Alcaraz. You know, he knew what, what, what Janik went through after. After Roland Garros. He. He fully understood. And although he wasn't happy, I like seeing them converse at the net. I like seeing the footage of them always, you know, being extremely friendly and cordial. When they're at the practice courts and they see each other. When you hear Darren Cahill talking about. When you hear Juan Carlos Ferrero talking about the rivalry. I think everyone fully understands the significance of these two. And listen, they're the stewards towards the future of our sport, you know, along with IGA and Coco and you know, others. But it's just special to watch. I'm really happy for, for Yannick Sinner. You know, I not on the same level at all, but I know what it, it feels like to be close and not not get it there. I'm happy he had his moment of, of redemption. Really happy for him. I think he goes about it the right way. Carlos Alcaraz, stud of all studs. Just, just amazing. This won't be his last Wimbledon final and he hasn't won his last Wimbledon title either. Can't wait for the full recap show. We'll be out on a normal time on Tuesday. I'll be responding to some of the other noise that's been posted on on X very soon, but certainly, but certainly not gonna disrespect Wimbledon Sunday for an attention grab. We'll see you next time on Quick Serve. Thanks for sticking with us these two weeks. Cheers, Fox Creative.
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Tennis Analyst 1
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