Jannik Sinner Just Showed EVERYONE Why He Is #1!

[Music] we are less than a week away from Wimbledon and so far the leadup grass tournaments have already delivered more than they promised shots of the year and impossible highlight reels crazy upsets we witnessed incredible action from both tours but off the courts it was a different story altogether from the four ongoing tournaments to some controversial high-profile withdrawals from the Olympics and the heated arguments about some rule changes here's everything that happened in tennis last week the top seeds in Hela all had big wins against their opponents in the round of 32 well except for Andre rublev who lost to maros skon and straight sets rublev is now three and three since his Madrid title and he's still not looking good at the moment rublev followed his horror show at Roland garos with some reactions that weren't necessarily better in his loss to guon watching the match I felt like rublev attempted way too many winners off the back foot which only led to many unforced errors also rubb was a disappointing 23% on first serve return points one at the same time giron capitalized on the Russians weak second serve winning more than a dozen points off those serves I don't know if it's too early to say this but rublev making it past the quarterfinals at Wimbledon would be shocking just based on his recent form and mental state meanwhile Felix a Ali aim then had to retire against Germany's Dominic coper because of an injury which was such a bummer but then came the round of 16 with even more surprises for us Jang xien took down the third seed Med VV in a three set Thriller for his third top 10 win Jen's ground strokes were solid that day and the forehand was doing all the damage down4 in the third set tie break Jen's confidence never dipped and in the end he got a well-deserved win I haven't watched too many of jangs matches myself but judging from what I have seen he definitely has top 20 potential but in my opinion the match of the round was this ver of SEO match now because I'm still waiting on the ATP I won't be able to go deep into some of those rallies without the clips but overall the match was high quality with Sasha once again doing what he knows how to do best putting on a serving Clinic zov only lost a combined eight points on both his first and second serves how do you beat a player who's unplayable on the serve although SEO raised his level and was playing highquality tennis himself it fell just short against the German in this ver of Deep dive I made a few days ago I talked about some of the changes he made to his game particularly on his serve once again we saw how that came into play against Sano but while Sasha was giving us a serving Master Class Chris Eubanks was busy taking down defending Champion Alexander bublick in three sets bck paid the price for being wasteful on breakpoint chances he was two for 16 at the end of the day the defending Champions 22 Aces couldn't get him over the line meanwhile top seed yanic sner had no problems booking his ticket to the quarterfinal despite losing a tie break for the second time in the tournament this time against Fabian Aran but let's talk about Yan lonard Stu for a second we saw quite the performance from him against sitas who he's now beaten four times in his career 22 winners only five unforced errors no break points faced Stu probably has c pass's number some would argue but what can't be argued is the 34-year-olds excellent ball striking ability the guy is such a Powerhouse and let me tell you despite his age he can definitely be a real threat on grass how far do you see him going at Wimbledon well someone I didn't see reaching the later rounds of hollow was Marcus giron he's a great player no doubt but he came into the event having lost eight of his last 10 matches a number of those against opponents who he had the game to beat but after taking down rublev and bartini before falling short against herkos giron will no doubt be proud of himself the semis in Hala played out as predicted Jiang saw his good run ended by CER while Alexander Zev whose worst surface is grass fell just short against an inform herkos with that the stage was set for the final Sinner and herkos both served lights out in the final making it impossible for either player to be broken however sinner reminded everyone that a serve could be a real weapon on grass the Italian won 44 out of 47 first serve points about 94% and was also above 70% on the second serve win percentage that was something herkos couldn't replicate he only managed to win nine out of 23 points on his second serve no thanks to some insane returning level from CER One Way cner showed he was the superior player was by neutralizing herk's Firepower with an impressive counterattacking running forehand on many occasions at the end of the day CER got the job done after two tie breaks to become just the eighth man in ATP history to win a title in his first tournament as world number one it's also a first grass title for CER and his fourth title of the year what a way to prepare for Wimbledon elsewhere at the Queens Club championships we saw Tommy Paul become the first American to win in the tournament since Sam query did it in 2010 Paul who's now the new American number one for the first time in his career has had one heck of a season despite the Australian Open disappointment in January and those ankle injury setbacks Paul has been having quite a season and we might need to do a deep dive on him soon following his semi-final loss to meddev Paul's ankle stopped him from doing anything in Miami and he didn't even play Moni Carlo he then reached a second Masters 1000 semi-final of the year in Rome let's not forget that he won the Dallas open in February and reached the final at delr Beach and has now followed that up with the biggest title of his career Paul entered the tournament as the fifth seed with alcaraz deonar dimitrov and Taylor Fritz all ahead of him despite the top seeds falling off Paul remained impressive all week dropping only one set the entire tournament I always found it weird that a player with Tommy Paul's potential only had two ATP 250 titles to show for it but it was only a matter of time before the bigger titles would come Paul played with a lot of int intensity and aggression throughout the tournament but while his flat and low backhand was every bit as difficult for his opponent to handle as usual I particularly loved his running crosscourt forehand you could see on numerous occasions how it kept him in so many points particularly against MTI in the final Paul's Court coverage was exceptional on defense and when it came to offense the American was clutch with an excellent transition game and net attack for musetti he'll be proud of how he performed from the Baseline all week from an offensive power standpoint with a lot of Steam on his ground strokes and remarkable change in Direction even when out of position you can tell that he has the Firepower to take down big names on grass where defensive options are somewhat limited his wins against Alex deor and Jordan Thompson were especially impressive to me but let's talk about the top seed alcaraz who was the upset of the tournament I thought it was one of those matches where your opponent was just better on the day however alcarez sort of complained after the match that he felt like he was being rushed on his serve and that affected him listen into this I feel like I can ask for for uh for the balls is something is crazy I have time just to ask for two balls and no bones I think I I've never I've never seen something like that in tennis alcaras is clearly not a fan of the new serve clock rules that were tested out last week the new rule allows the shot clock to start right when the previous Point finishes and not after the Umpire calls the score on the one hand this reduces the time spent between points and also reduces subjectivity because there are umpires that are a lot more strict with the clock you still get the 25 seconds it just starts counting immediately alcaras felt like his pre-serve routine was affected but a few fans thought he was just complaining because he lost but looking at the rule do you think it makes sense imagine there's a 40 or 50 shot rally and you don't even get to take a breather the clock starts counting right away on a lighter note I'm not sure how players with extensive preserve rituals like Rafa would have coped with this one he probably would have gotten a lot of time violations jokovic also sometimes bounces the ball a lot before serving too personally I think many players will be uncomfortable with it at first but overtime we'll see adjustments some fans believe it doesn't make sense to have the same amount of time between all points since some points are very long While others are short and I also think that's a valid point I'll leave it at that talking about some of our favorite Americans Shelton saw an early exit at Queens against pericard and is now 0 and2 on the grass this season at the time of this recording he'll look to find a winning start to his grass season in mayorca this week I have to note that I think he still is a steep learning curve on grass so I don't have high expectations but you have to like what you see out of his game with the big serve in forehand that should play pretty well on the surface for Corda he got his first top 10 win of the Year beating dimitrov in the round of 16 this follows an impressive final run in Sagen BOS last week I believe that grass is going to reward ca's offensive style of play and Baseline aggression a lot more in the coming Seasons starting from now for Fritz he's currently aiming for the hattick as the top seed in eastburn he has a 9-2 record across four appearances at the 250 lifting the trophy in 2019 and in 2022 I think he reaches the quarterfinal again at Wimbledon this year but for Francis TFO H hopefully that nasty fall that forced him to retire against hijikata is nothing too serious but I think it's a no-brainer to not expect anything from him at this point the guy is still searching he's lucky to be seated for Wimbledon by by the way some records were smashed at Queens last week Milos ronic broke the record for most Aces ever in a best of three sets match after serving 47 Aces against cam Nori in the round of 32 the previous record was held by none other than Evo Carlovich who had 45 ronic didn't get a main draw wild card into Wimbledon and has decided to not play qualis either we'll touch on some of the controversies surrounding the Wimbledon wild cards later in the video but for now all the drama is about the Olympics Russia is sending a pretty strong group of players to the Olympics with Medvedev kotov safuan and KATV all competing on the men's side on the women's side we have mea Andrea alexandrova cter matova and schneer they'll all compete under neutral Flags but the talking point however is about the withdrawal list there's an air of uncertainty around why rublev hatov and many other stars aren't going to be in Paris for rublev the word on the street is that he's looking after his health and that he needs to take a breather but then Daria Kaza Kina Anakin skaya Anastasia pavu chova and Anastasia poova won't be competing as well Arena sabalenka also confirmed that she won't be playing in the Olympics either here's what she said quote I'm not going to play in the Olympics because of all the rules from the WTA with mandatory tournaments I have to sacrifice something unfortunately I have to sacrifice the Olympics at this stage of my career and especially with all the struggles I've had the last months I need to take care of my health end quote some fans didn't buy that WTA mandatory line from sabalenka even saying that she didn't want to participate for political reasons but then we saw Emma Ruku snub the tournament saying that the Olympics just weren't right for her this time of year quote I guess with the change in surface it's just not worth the risk for me at this point having recovered from surgeries last year end quote she subsequently turned down the Wild Card she'd been given meanwhile Madison Keys Ben Shelton Sebastian Corda and Francis tifo all opted not to play the Olympics in Paris despite being top four players in the United States they'll be replaced by Marcus giron Chris Eubanks and Emma Navaro for Ben Shelton it seemed to be the right decision given that he's been injured anjur also announced that she won't be going to Paris either now there is an argument that many of these top players don't care about the Olympics because there isn't really anything at stake no ranking points no significant prize money and no real incentives other than the fact that they get to represent their country do you think that this is selfish I personally personally don't think so I think the top reason for many players missing out is actually the surface change you see for the first time since 1992 the Olympics will be played on Clay now you throw in the fact that the players just came from clay have gone to grass and will be about to go to the hardcourt swing and it just isn't really the easiest adjustment to make talking about injury concerns we now know that seven time champ Novak jokovic has arrived at Wimbledon his participation however is still not 100% certain elsewhere kolina mova returns to the courts after almost a year but the pain continues for Yuri leka who in addition to missing out on Roland Goos will also not play at Wimbledon he won't even recover in time for the Olympics which is such a shame because he was playing the best tennis of his life in Madrid before suffering a stress fracture in his back meanwhile Andy Murray who played his 1,000th ATP match last week had to retire due to injury in the second round muray then proceeded to have surgery done for a spinal cyst however the details of his medical status were supposed to be kept confidential by Simon Briggs but it was leaked and further announced that he won't be participating at Wimbledon his mother however put up this tweet as far as ranking updates go Novak jokovic returns to the number two spot after alcarez failed to defend his championship points at Queens meanwhile Alex De Manor sees his career-high rank of number seven to be short-lived and we now know that he won't be a top eight seed at Wimbledon Alexander Buck drops outside the top 20 after failing to defend his title in Hala Jack Draper Jang jien and Michi pericard all hit new career highs and then we have rinky hijikata who's one of the biggest movers of the week turning our attention to the WTA there are no changes in the top 10 however Victoria Azarenka is up three spots to 16 while Anakin skaya has now broken into the top 20 for the first time after reaching the final in Berlin meanwhile donic failed to defend her finalist points from Berlin last year so she falls 10 spots off and down in number 4 1 Caroline dolah Hy is one of the biggest movers of the week as she eyes a return to the top 50 elsewhere former world number two Petra kavida who announced her pregnancy earlier this year drops more than 70 spots and now Falls outside the top 100 we had some major news off the courts as well Roger Federer's iconic promo made an appearance in Time Square with kid Roger playing against the myestro 12 final days is already streaming on Prime video definitely check it out if you haven't already also Rafa is set to open a Raphael Nadal Sports Center in Albania the sports center will be located next to Manchester city's new football Center in the city of durus and stepping up his game as a fashion icon Casper Roode was announced as an ambassador for Dior checking in on the WTA tour we saw two tournaments play out the Roth classic and the Berlin open the wait for her first WTA tour level title continues for Isa tanovich although she reached the final at the Roth say classic ulia putina was too hot for her to handle Putin SAA got the early break before doubling down to race to a 5-1 lead in the first set and here's how she closed it out oh that sus up the second set threatened to follow the same pattern but Isa raised her level to recover from going down an early break the set subsequently went to a tie break despite saving a number of Championship points Isa ended up losing 6176 she only won 26% of her second serve points and that proved to be a major problem for her throughout the match as her opponent was locked in on the return switching over to Berlin we were in for a lot of surprises or should I say disappointments sabalenka rebaka and anjur all retired from their quarterfinal matches due to physical problems however Jessica Pula who missed the entire European clay season won the WTA 500 title after saving five match points against anak kinaya in the final it's ula's first title since October last year and her first career title on grass watching her performance last week I think that she can put herself among the top contenders for the Wimbledon title the Berlin title will no doubt give her much needed confidence wimbledon's initial wild cards came out a couple days ago and here they are on the screen and uh Dominic team might miss out on the tournament in his last year on tour meanwhile Naomi Osaka aneli Kerber W nyaki and Emma raducanu have all been given wild cards too no wild card for Simona halop who might not be matchfit just yet looking back at the men's singles some fans noticed that all the initial wild cards were given to mostly less experienced British players which didn't make sense for some but let me get this out of the way wild cards aren't meant to be fair they're solely at the discretion of the tournament officials now we all want to see some of our favorite players in these tournaments but I bet you'd see arguments made on both sides if Dominic team should suddenly be given a wild card to a tournament where he always lost in the first or second round even in his prime yes there's the exception in 2017 where he reached the fourth round but team has a 42% win percentage at Wimbledon so it's easy to see why some fans don't really care if he gets in or not personally I think it's a good idea for some young and upcoming players to be given these Wild Card opportunities ultimately I think wild cards should go to players who the organizers think could bring more intrigued to the event but I'm eager to know what's on your mind what are your thoughts about wild cards last week in was a spectacle on and off the court and with Wimbledon right around the corner you can expect a double dose of action and drama if you like this video you should definitely check out the Deep dive I just did on Alexander's verev where I analyze and break down his game in ways that you probably haven't seen on YouTube before it should be showing on the screen for you right here and until next time keep going for the lines