A thrilling tennis match between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz showcases their exceptional skills and athleticism.
between Jannik Sinner’s maiden major championship win at the Australian Open and Carlos Alcaraz ’s triumph at the French Open. Here, they’re playing a semi, and it’s finely balanced. Alcaraz ’s serve from the deuce court fizzes high to Sinner’s left. It’s all he can do to get a backhand on it, and he has to spin blindly away from the court to recover his position. Alcaraz has stolen up to the net and chops off a drop shot.
You can hear the click of Sinner’s racquet on the ground as he scrambles to reach it in such a nick of time that a commentator thinks it might be a double bounce, but it’s not. The ball floats across and past Alcaraz, who has to reach a little behind himself with his forehand to send the ball back down the line. Though stranded, Sinner is quick enough to track back to the edge of the service box to produce his own backhand down the line. Alcaraz cuts it off at the pass, aiming his forehand volley on such an acute angle across the court that it looks bound to hit the foot of the umpire’s chair. They’re no longer playing the court in its traditional orientation, between baselines, but laterally, from net post to net post. Sinner somehow reaches the ball just outside the doubles alley and wraps enough of his racquet around it to send his own forehand back across the net and the court at an equally improbable angle. Alcaraz throws himself at it and catches it a metre outside the court. He’s thinking to poke it deep to Sinner’s backhand, but cannot quite tame it and it drifts just wide of the sideline. The crowd erupts and the players look back over their shoulders, exchanging grins. If it was the only point you saw for the night, you might think you had your money’s worth. Sporting immortality has a short half-lif
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