Tennis dominance at US Open
Not to stop “AI generated” Sinner in New York?
All right for the next finale of Sinner Kontra Alcaraz? In any case, Sinner doesn’t seem to stop at the US Open. A competitor does not consider his appearances to be more human.
Crackling Grand Slam mood rarely arose when the “AI-generated” Jannik Sinner made his semi-finals perfectly with the US Open. It was foreseeable that the previous year’s champion would easily win, several spectators left Arthur Ashe stage early. With the 6: 1, 6: 4, 6: 2, the defending champion gave his Italian compatriot Lorenzo Musetti no chance and had done his quarter-final task after only two hours when things were on midnight in New York.
The Sinner show at the Grand Slams this year continues imposing. The 24-year-old triumphed in Australia and Wimbledon. He already looked like the winner at the French Open before his Spanish tennis rival Carlos Alcaraz gave the final a dramatic turn.
Now the world ranking list is heading for its fourth Grand Slam final 2025. For the third time one after the other, the opponent may be called Alcaraz, who also marches through the tournament with dreamwalking certainty before his semi-final showdown against Novak Djokovic on Friday. The fact that the Canadian surprise semi-finalist Felix Auger-Alicassime for Sinner becomes a stumbling block seems to be almost impossible.
Sinner no longer human?
“I have the feeling that Jannik had a different level,” said the almost pitiful Musetti, after all, number ten in the world. The superiority of another rival seems so extreme that he was a humorous creative compliment. That could no longer be human, said Alexander Bucks. “He is like a AI-generated player,” said the Kazache, who was so overwhelmed in the round of 16, 1: 6, 1: 6 in the round of 16, 1: 6, 1: 6.
The extra class of the calm mountain lover from South Tyrol looks as if you had created the perfect tennis player with artificial intelligence or in a laboratory. Something like that, it should have meant the Budik. Other players are human, such as Musetti, who in the narrower second set happened in the crucial moment in breakball.
Sinner only superhuman? “I am not a machine,” the South Tyrolean appeased when he had been more difficult in round three against Canadian Denis Shapovalov.
Nobody has defended the title since Roger Federer 2008
How naturally and constantly the mentally strong four-time Grand Slam winner thundered the balls over the net, but now also got to feel Musetti. “To be honest, I have never played against someone who put me under pressure in the rallies,” said the 23-year-old. “It felt pretty bad.”
Sinner seems to be able to defend his title in New York since the Swiss Roger Federer and his winning streak between 2004 and 2008. The rapper Drake bet $ 300,000 on the fact that the previous year’s champion celebrated the title again. The bet would bring him $ 507,000. But is that a good omen for Sinner? The Canadian is known to place high bets – and often to lose.
But the game with the money doesn’t seem to be too daring. Sinner won 26 matches in a row in the Grand Slam tournaments in hard places and did not let a three-month doping lock to be dissuaded from his way this year. On his march to the semi-finals against Auger-Aliasseime, he granted his opponents only 38 games in the five rounds. “I love to get wide in a tournament and increase my level,” said the top seed. It could – to stay with the Budik – to be even more inhuman for the competition.
Becker and away from Alcaraz
The seven past Grand Slam trophies have divided Sinner and Alcaraz among themselves. Before the final days, everything indicates that one of the two will also put the trophy in his luggage in New York. “We don’t have to talk about them. We know that they are the two best players in the world,” said 38-year-old Djokovic, whose role has changed from the long-time dominator to the challenger.
The 24-time Grand Slam tournament winner would like to spoil these US Open in the semi-finals as a spoiler Alcaraz. Including magic strokes, however, the Spaniard also shows his imposing “Grand Slam version” (quarter-finals Jiri Lehecka) and also impresses Boris Becker.
“I’m blown away by Carlos Alcaraz. I have never seen him play at the US Open as strongly as before,” said the three -time Wimbledon winner in his podcast with Andrea Petkovic. So all right for a final Sinner Kontra Alcaraz?
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Source: Stern
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