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Carlos Alcaraz Wins 2nd Straight Roland-Garros Title in Instant Classic vs. Sinner · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Two incredible gladiators that came in as rivals, both unblemished
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  Speaker 1: in a final stage. They left as pillars of this
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  Speaker 1: new generation. It is a match for the archives, a
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  Speaker 1: moment that tennis will measure itself against itself for years
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  Speaker 1: to come. Sinner and Alcarez, as Jim Currier has seemed
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  Speaker 1: them the new two, they are also now the now two.
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  Speaker 1: They are the current, they are the future. They are incredible,
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  Speaker 1: and they have made history today. As Carlos kisses that cup,
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  Speaker 1: we can just sit here, collect our breath and say wow.
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  Speaker 1: We are waiting Carlos Akarez. At any moment, Andre Agassi
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  Speaker 1: is making his way up here. The Mcamura brothers on
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  Speaker 1: the outside, Curry or Querry and left go here inside
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  Speaker 1: the middle. Let's take a look at some of the
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  Speaker 1: statistics that were made today that will likely not be
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  Speaker 1: broken for quite some time. Second longest Slam final and
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  Speaker 1: men's single history. The only one that beat it was
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  Speaker 1: that twenty twelve Australian Open between and Djokovic first rolling
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  Speaker 1: Garos Men's single final to reach a fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Set tie break.
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  Speaker 1: That seems crazy. Eighth comeback win went down two sets
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  Speaker 1: in a final men's single in rolling Garros history. That
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  Speaker 1: last time we saw that was Novak over Zizipas in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one and Carlos Alcarez his first career win
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  Speaker 1: when trailing two and John. As you mentioned, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just two, was O two and then a break. You
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  Speaker 1: also mentioned you saw Carlos go to a mysterious liquid
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of that match.
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  Speaker 3: So at the it's funny like when these guys played
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  Speaker 3: in the semi final last year, both of them were
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  Speaker 3: suffering physically and it wasn't nearly as grueling as this one. Right,
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  Speaker 3: it was a hand cramp in the middle of the
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  Speaker 3: third for center. Alcaraz would later explain Impress that he
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  Speaker 3: was trying to hide his leg cramps. Fitth set, he's
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  Speaker 3: up three to one. He goes to the sideline, not
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  Speaker 3: to get a racket change. He goes to get a
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  Speaker 3: little vial. Now normally that's pickle juice, which the players
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  Speaker 3: use to try and fight off cramps. It's really it
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  Speaker 3: replenishes that aspect for the body he put in his mouth,
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  Speaker 3: He swigged it, came back out to play. I'm wondering
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully we'll get a chance to ask him where
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  Speaker 3: he was physically at that stage because he didn't betray
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  Speaker 3: any any cramps. He wasn't his leg wasn't popping like
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  Speaker 3: it might be. It looked like Sinner might have had
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  Speaker 3: a cramp sam in that first game when Alcarez hit
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  Speaker 3: the drop shot, Cinner came up, got to it, but
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  Speaker 3: didn't make the shot and then pulled up sort of lame.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly pulled up lame, and he kind of, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: for the next four games it looked like he was
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  Speaker 2: a step slow. I think he saw Alcarez go to
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  Speaker 2: the drop shot quite often there in the next four games,
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  Speaker 2: and then again, to Sinner's credit, he kind of found
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  Speaker 2: a second win. He ended up breaking Alcarez back midway
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  Speaker 2: through the fit, and then it looked like he was
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  Speaker 2: on top of things for a while. I mean, al
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  Speaker 2: Karez served for the match, Center broke him that entire fist.
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  Speaker 2: That really the entire match. I mean, there was probably
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  Speaker 2: six different times you kind of in your head thought,
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  Speaker 2: al Kraz has this, you know what, No Yannick has this.
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  Speaker 2: You know what. I'm going back to Alcarez.
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  Speaker 4: What you you mentioned you so longest pickle juice been around,
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  Speaker 4: I'm guess seeing it all the time where.
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  Speaker 3: Harold say, the first person I heard it from and
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  Speaker 3: he'd lost in the finals here in the early eight
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  Speaker 3: seventies yet, so it's been around. But these highlights were Patrick,
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  Speaker 3: why don't you get in on this because this was
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  Speaker 3: bananas watching it from up top.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it was kind of what we expected.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the shot making. They were both going for it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Alcarez was making a few more mistakes like that.
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  Speaker 2: Than we're used to see.
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  Speaker 5: So first set goes pretty comfortably the center. Second set
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  Speaker 5: we go to the tie break. You know, both guys
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  Speaker 5: opening up, trying to open up the court. The drop
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  Speaker 5: shot wasn't working as often.
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  Speaker 4: That was one we went back.
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  Speaker 5: Behind Alcraft to go up for two in the tie break.
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  Speaker 5: Set point now out dress survey to try to stay
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  Speaker 5: in it. And just again, you know I said before
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  Speaker 5: the match, these guys are ability to hit on the
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  Speaker 5: dead run with power remarkable from both players. And this
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  Speaker 5: is where you know, Carlos start to pick it up,
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  Speaker 5: starting to hit World War with the corehand. Drop shot again.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't didn't come into play as Sam's until late to
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  Speaker 4: the match when he kind of turned it.
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  Speaker 5: But at this point you know, this is when he
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  Speaker 5: just was able to start getting some momentum going Johnny
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  Speaker 5: mack in.
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  Speaker 2: The crowd was.
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  Speaker 5: Totally behind him because they wanted to see this match
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  Speaker 5: for the distance.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've been there before where the crowd turns on
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  Speaker 4: a dime, and I don't blame it for doing in
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  Speaker 4: this case, well hear the match points. Here's match point
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  Speaker 4: number one for Sinner.
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  Speaker 2: This is when we ran the sets again. It was
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  Speaker 2: gonna go the first one. I get the first one,
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  Speaker 2: I get there.
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  Speaker 4: It's a tough shot to pull off the second and
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  Speaker 4: third one to he has some pretty darn good looks
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  Speaker 4: at it.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: It was actually a second server turn of serve that
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  Speaker 5: he he kind of went for him.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't really go for it.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you know.
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  Speaker 4: He served for it, then you they'll serve for it.
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  Speaker 4: Guyers game and he couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 5: And that's where you really felt that it was turning.
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  Speaker 5: But still in the tie break, you know, Cinner was
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  Speaker 5: able to get back and get to the time.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like that wouldn't happen.
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  Speaker 5: Uh and after as it's just you know, he reminds
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  Speaker 5: me of no back, you know, and the tide break
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  Speaker 5: so clutch, and now he does it in a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of a different way.
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  Speaker 4: He goes for it, and he was going for it
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  Speaker 4: and he was making it.
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  Speaker 5: And it was at at this point Jc the rock
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  Speaker 5: that I thought, you know what, this could be a
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  Speaker 5: six to one or sixty two set, because after we
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  Speaker 5: felt that center was tiring a little bit, that would
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  Speaker 5: he started using this more.
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  Speaker 2: The drafts started working.
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  Speaker 5: But that three to one game, that center almost went
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  Speaker 5: down a double break when he held there. I was like,
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  Speaker 5: oh wait a second, yeah this And then I said
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  Speaker 5: to myself, wouldn't it be something if this somehow finished
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  Speaker 5: in a final set?
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  Speaker 2: Tie brig? How about that is not right there? From
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  Speaker 2: not dead run? And we saw center late there. Like
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  Speaker 2: I say, with the drop shots, he wasn't sliding into
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  Speaker 2: the drop shots. He was running up to it, not
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  Speaker 2: hitting the ball, then sliding out leg the rock. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Fred right, it was the drop shot that he got
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  Speaker 2: to that. Actually that kind of changed the momentum. I
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  Speaker 2: felt like in the fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Set billimeters off the ground.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the momentum shave a bunch of times in the
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  Speaker 5: fifth set, and that's why I was fitting that it
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  Speaker 5: did go to the breaker centered up center six five
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  Speaker 5: up here.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, in this game, I feel like he had a
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  Speaker 2: fifteen third look and he missed the routine forehand. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was a big moment in this match. It
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  Speaker 2: looked like he had things that in his control and
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  Speaker 2: he missed the foehand deep and that kind of again
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  Speaker 2: let Carlos scrap and crawl back into this fifth set.
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  Speaker 3: Carlos is scraping and scrapping at that point. He rarely
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  Speaker 3: hit a backhand slices and he comes up with that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was incredible. His coach on his feet
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  Speaker 3: in the breaker, he just starts lighting up the forehand
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  Speaker 3: and that backs up center and said, crazy, how does
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  Speaker 3: he think to do that?
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  Speaker 2: It's insane. He won uped himself about every two and
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  Speaker 2: a half minutes in the fifth set with thoughts like.
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  Speaker 5: That, and then now of routine that he pulls that
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  Speaker 5: off on that point, it was. It was scintillating stuff
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  Speaker 5: in the tie break from Carlos Alter. It was a
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  Speaker 5: fitting in right, brilliant.
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  Speaker 3: It had finished shot with a shot like that, it
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  Speaker 3: couldn't end on an error and it absolutely did.
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  Speaker 2: What a moment.
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  Speaker 3: What sportsmanship throughout the match, both of these guys conceding
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  Speaker 3: line calls to each other. Right. It was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos now has won the last four Majors, not on
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  Speaker 1: hard courts. He is now five and oh in major finals.
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  Speaker 1: The only one else to start off five and oh Betterer,
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  Speaker 1: who would start off seven and oh.
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  Speaker 2: But this right here total.
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  Speaker 4: Points one left.
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  Speaker 3: Go check out the tonal.
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  Speaker 1: Points one ninety three, one ninety two. At one point
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  Speaker 1: of this match, they had played five hours and ten minutes.
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  Speaker 1: It was two sets, all five games, all forty all.
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  Speaker 2: They keep each.
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  Speaker 1: Other motivated, their neck and neck, they push each other.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed as if their grind and grit exceeded what
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  Speaker 1: their physical limitations even allow. They were playing beyond what
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  Speaker 1: their bodies could handle.
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  Speaker 4: I can relate to Yanik in a couple ways. I
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  Speaker 4: was part of what I think was considering an epic
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  Speaker 4: match nineteen eighty where he came up short again. Bjorn
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  Speaker 4: Boor lost Sat in five sets. Apparently Alcharz is ready.
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  Speaker 4: So so let's question I.
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  Speaker 5: Would have asked, because I think, what you know, We've
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  Speaker 5: known that these two guys have sort of elevated their games,
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  Speaker 5: you know, to separate themselves from the field. But I
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  Speaker 5: think what makes all of us so excited about this
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  Speaker 5: rivalry is because today they showed us more. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they showed us the determination, the grit, the desire, the
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  Speaker 5: struggles you know, to go through.
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  Speaker 4: And and the will and both of them, both of them.
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  Speaker 5: Showed that Will sin Or what he had to go
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  Speaker 5: through losing those matchboy's still coming back Carlos two sets down.
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  Speaker 5: So we saw some we saw you know, John always
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  Speaker 5: likes to say, you got to find a way to
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  Speaker 5: dig it deeper than you've ever felt you had to go,
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  Speaker 5: you know, to win to be at this level. And
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  Speaker 5: not only do we see the incredible shot making from
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  Speaker 5: these two, but we saw that will. And that's I
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  Speaker 5: think what excites all of us about the.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking during this that Carlos, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: storyline is he'd never come back from down to and
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  Speaker 1: that Sinner had never won that fifth set.
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  Speaker 5: And Sinner has come back from two oh but to
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  Speaker 5: win his first major in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: But Carlos showed us that he could and Sinner showed
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  Speaker 1: us that he had the endurance to go five. The
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  Speaker 1: two things we were worried about, they both prove they
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  Speaker 1: can handle.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: I was remarking, I want to just quickly say before
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  Speaker 4: I go and have a beer and Andre takujoin Larta.
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  Speaker 4: When I was saying the Wimbledon final, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: lost that, but it elevated I felt, hopefully the sport
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  Speaker 4: a little bit me individually, and I think it's definitely
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  Speaker 4: gonna elevate Yahick the effort that he put out and
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  Speaker 4: the way he handled it at the end, which is
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  Speaker 4: really harsh. And I've been there. I know what it
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  Speaker 4: feels like to go two sets up. If I wasn't
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  Speaker 4: match point, but I was five points away, so it
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  Speaker 4: was I could taste it. But he's gonna win this,
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna win this thing. I thought I was gonna
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  Speaker 4: win it, but I was sadly mistaken, and it still
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  Speaker 4: sticks with me like this long. You know, I'd come
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  Speaker 4: here and I'm like, did.
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  Speaker 2: It push you afterward?
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  Speaker 1: Did you find that it showed you what you were
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  Speaker 1: even capable of?
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  Speaker 4: It pushed me, but it ultimately he pushed me the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the year and into the next year. But
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  Speaker 4: it didn't should have kept pushing me. And that's what
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  Speaker 4: the difference I believe between the all time greats and
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  Speaker 4: maybe a mere mortal like myself at once we weren't.
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  Speaker 2: Able to take it to that next level.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know it's it's when I see that it
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  Speaker 4: sort of brings back some couple of dark memories there. So,
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  Speaker 4: but he is the way he persevered and like sort
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  Speaker 4: of found that extra gear a couple times. Is you
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  Speaker 4: know everything that I believed the sports should be about.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful, it really was, and hey we got a
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  Speaker 1: defending champion. You said it showed Carlos you know what
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  Speaker 1: to do, and a back to back.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, listen Alcaaz doing some things pretty phenomenal. Two sets down,
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  Speaker 3: tough to get him down two sets, well, he finds
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  Speaker 3: his way back here. He learned a lot about himself here.
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  Speaker 3: And the third youngest man to hold five majors behind
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  Speaker 3: Borg and the Doll. I'm pretty darn good. This guy
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  Speaker 3: still needs Australian Open to be the youngest. I get
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  Speaker 3: the career Grand Slam right in the open air.
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  Speaker 5: Could argue that it's even more impressive, right because he's
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  Speaker 5: won on three different services.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe those.
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  Speaker 5: Two other all timer Hall of famers did it as well.
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  Speaker 5: Of course they'll both rough ended up with quite a few.
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  Speaker 4: But he you know, there's there's no there.
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  Speaker 5: Let there be no doubt that the that the mantle
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  Speaker 5: is officially.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we had a doubt, but I think.
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  Speaker 5: Some fans out there, you know, maybe not hardcore tennis fans,
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  Speaker 5: like okay, like maybe I should start paying attention to
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  Speaker 5: these two guys because it's official, and now it's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be interesting to see. It's up to the rest of
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  Speaker 5: the field to see if anybody can start to really
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  Speaker 5: compete with these guys in Jack.
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  Speaker 3: Draper Juan Fonseka that the eighteen year old from Brazil,
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  Speaker 3: he's got a couple of years probably before he starts
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  Speaker 3: to move into the picture. Draper, I think could be
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  Speaker 3: there very quickly, a semi finalist in the US opened year.
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  Speaker 3: He is, and he's legit. He's got he's got of
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  Speaker 3: the new Rafa forehand, he's six foot four, lefty.
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  Speaker 2: He can bring it.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to be a factor at Wimbledon.
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  Speaker 2: Sam No, he is. And look, these guys have won
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  Speaker 2: the last six majors.
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  Speaker 3: Now, so that the gun went off a year and
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  Speaker 3: a half ago, these guys are already flying down the track.
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  Speaker 2: And the catch we're talking about guys catching them. They've
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  Speaker 2: got some work to do. There's a long there's a
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  Speaker 2: big gap right now between these two, the new two
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  Speaker 2: as you call them, and the fields. It's these thwre
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  Speaker 2: the field that every tournament for the foreseeable future until
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  Speaker 2: we can get someone like Draper or someone else to
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  Speaker 2: consistently get in there and start making not just the
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  Speaker 2: occasional semifinal, but back to back semifinals, back to back quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are
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  Speaker 3: Box office ladies and gentlemen who doesn't want to go
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  Speaker 3: see them play anywhere in the world.