Okay so actually I won’t be able to shut up until this match is resumed and finished because it won’t be before tomorrow, so I guess I will just speak my piece on the match so far. I’ll save my thoughts on #the discourse until the end because I really don’t believe that stuff is the most interesting thing about this semifinal.
I am so in awe of both players, and yeah maybe that’s partly because both are among my faves but they both did TRULY impressive things!
Set 1) jannik once again just comes out swinging and instantly takes control of the match. He plays tennis at the highest level IMMEDIATELY and this should never be taken for granted. This level of tennis is ALWAYS impressive.
Set 2) daniil’s comeback. The way that daniil managed to come back in the second set and not let jannik’s dominance (in the first set and on the tour in general) discourage him. He is such a fighter and in his own way mentally so strong. Zverev could never!
3) omggg jannik <333 I thought that it was over when it went to a third set… with how jannik had been looking during the second set I was sure he wouldn’t be able to put up a fight for an entire set more. And then the man didn’t even take a toilet break between sets??? I was so confused. But he came back! And he broke daniil! And he looked stronger again! People keep saying jannik needs to be able to suffer through hard times and still win and it looked like he was doing just that!!! That floored me, he is insane!!
And yeah then we had a mto and shortly thereafter rain delay and now discourse……. Was it wrong that jannik was granted the mto? Maybe, idk, but if it was it surely isn’t his fault or responsibility if it was the wrong call. That decision is up to the umpire. It was the same when the umpire made the hindrance call on jack draper when he played daniil in indian wells. Was that a bad call? I think so, but it is not up to medvedev to say “wait no sorry, actually it didn’t really distract me,” that is is the umpire’s job!! They have to be the ones to say no to the time outs or the hindrance calls or whatever else. The players are there to win and they will do what they can to achieve that! Aren’t they pretty much all answering they prefer to win dirty when they have to choose between that and loosing beautifully? Yes! Because they are professional athletes and that’s how their mentalities are, that’s why they can compete at such high levels. People getting angry at jannik because of that are just people who like to get angry at jannik about anything, as we would say in the early 2010’s “haters gonna hate.”
And the same with the rain. I actually think Jannik would have preferred to finish it tonight if the rain hadn’t been a problem. He was one break up and flirting with a second break. He was looking better but obviously the guy needs a lot of recovery, so I think he would have preferred a day off tomorrow instead of having to warm up and play the end of the match the day before a possible final, but they can’t fucking play in rain because they can’t get fucking injured right before roland garros!!!
I will end this post before I get annoyed. I love Jannik Sinner and Daniil Medvedev <333 what amazing tennis players!!! Hope we will get a good ending to the match tomorrow and that it won’t take shine from the women’s final <333
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