re: 2025 Wimbledon Men's Championship - Sinner (1) v. Alcaraz (2).

Interesting stuff Bunk. They era of chipping and charging is over. If you don't hit a terrific approach shot you're likely to have a missile of a passing shot to deal with if you can even get your racket on it. Also the serve and return speeds are so fast now there's hardly even any time to get to the net after a big serve for a volley. All of this is mostly due to more power and heavy spin.

Baseline bashing is the name of the game now. I saw Zverev come up to hit a short ball and then retreat back to the baseline instead of going to the net several times in his match. It was pathetic.

I would have guessed Cilic was older than 36. Guess that’s what happens when you turn pro at 17.

Draper's fitness is still terrible in extended matches

Wimbledon is kinda run like shite

Emma Navarro is the sexiest player on the whole tour…

It was definitely the correct decision. Wimbledon was borderline unwatchable in the servebot era.

And the grace of the serve and volley has long been destroyed by modern racquets, it had to become a more traditional kind of tennis.

So grateful they saved Wimbledon

Our Aryna has a nice looking draw now

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Baseline bashing is the name of the game now. I saw Zverev come up to hit a short ball and then retreat back to the baseline instead of going to the net several times in his match. It was pathetic.

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String technology has also changed dramatically since Sampras.
Not really a great strategy to go charging into the net when their is not much of a chance to win from there.

Osaka out