The American tournament said that nothing is nothing behind Sinner and Alcaraz. So the Eternal Djokovic with the Mannarine veterans and Struff makes its way
Seventeen series heads defeat or withdrawn in the first three rounds (and it is still not over), ultra -year players who obtain results never achieved in his career, surprises unbridled, with names that go on in a completely unexpected way. There are no more certainties in tennis, apart from Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, and this first week of Us Open is putting it to light more than ever.
absent alternatives
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Removed the two phenomena in front there, which rolle the opponents without problems, the rest seems totally unpronounceable. Which may also appear beautiful and fun, as the unpredictability can be, but under a more serious problem and which is making a lot of discussion: the total lack of alternatives to the Duopoly Sinner-Alcaraz and the disappearance of the medium-high level in tennis.
roundabout
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Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas now make talk more about what happens in their careers off the pitch than for the results. The Greek has even come out of 20, who was worsening in an endless crisis, the Russian has not won a tournament for more than two years, outside the top 10 and the 30 -year threshold seems to have lost any stimulus. Their elimination did not surprise that much. Alexander Zverev is still the number three of the world but in the big tournaments, Australian Open separately, has been practically absent. In Melbourne, the very hard lesson received in the final by Sinner seems to have emptied him, and despite the words full of trust on how he can still win a slam (after all, he is 28 years old), it is not clear how he should do it. The German is able to lose by anyone, and even when he is at most currently he does not seem to have the level to counter those who precede it in the standings. Taylor Fritz is the number four but he too, has a little disappointed and in any case he is very distant by Sinner and Alcaraz and has never taken into consideration as a real alternative. Ben Shelton, the one who perhaps had the greatest growth in 2025, has too many defects on a technical level and a fairly monocordic game (the last matches against Sinner have shown him widely), as well as subject to injuries, as well as Jack Draper, too physically fragile.
ups and downs
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The rest of the top 10, always in alternation, De Minaur, Rublev, Ruud, simply do not have the step even to worry anyone, in normal conditions, in Slam. Apart from Holger Rune, born in 2003, who should be the third “Big Three”, but in reality it is too discontinuous to annoy, how the results show. In Miami seemed to have been born the star of Mensik, born in 2005 and a 1000 already in the bag, but the rest of the year for the Czech was a disaster, and the US Open has already been eliminated. Joao Fonseca, 19 years old, is too young and too inexperienced, he will have to wait for him. To be clear, the Berdych, the Tsonga, the Potro, the Wawrinka are missing, just to make names not too far in time, people who perhaps constantly lost against Federer, Djokovic and Nadal, but still able to make a surprise and seriously put Fab Four in difficulty, also to their maximum. And in fact, the “fab four” were four, and they beat each other, which certainly made everything more uncertain.
balance
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Now, from the number 3 down, everyone can lose with everyone, nor do you surprise. And so the albeit very good Jan Lennard Struff at 35 years old finds himself, deservedly, for the first time in his career in an eighth final at the US Open, or the 37 -year -old Adrian Mannarino. If the eternal Novak Djokovic is added to the two, 38 years old and no longer the strength to dominate, there were no three over 35 in the round of 16 in New York even since 1982. In short, tennis no longer seems to be a sport for young people. Sinner and Alcaraz aside, of course.
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