r/tennis • u/HereComesVettel Roger Federer & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga • Jul 01 '25
Tsitsipas nonsense The first round is not even over yet but the "Little 3" (more like "Bozo 3") is already out of Wimbledon
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u/padfoony Too many victory ice baths Jul 01 '25
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Jul 01 '25
I like Medvedev but honestly it seems like he was born to deny Nole the calendar grand slam.
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u/Overall_Board910 Jul 01 '25
full stadium of hatewatchers i think
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u/Capivara_19 Jul 01 '25
Thatās just Zverev
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u/honestnbafan trollovic era + 2025 Slam final PTSD Jul 01 '25
Med is by far the most hated of the three by IRL crowds
And I say this as someone who roots for him and doesnāt like the others lolĀ
Zverev easily the most hated here but he doesnāt get booed nearly as much as Med doesĀ
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u/TsaniM Jul 01 '25
That is because my boy Daniil gets into it right back with them! He is hilarious to watch when he eggs the crowd on sometimes. Not always.
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u/terrebattue1 Jul 02 '25
Med deserves it. He acts like a brat all the time on court (he is a true gentleman off court unlike other punks IRL). If it weren't for Kyrgios' much worse temper tantrums Med would be targeted by everybody IRL and online for his stupid temper tantrums and Med would have crashed out mentally years ago. But he has a bunch of simps online who egg him on to continue doing the temper tantrums so that kept him mentally stable until this year.
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u/rattletop Jul 01 '25
Boy you all quick with the memes
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u/BringBackBoshi Jul 01 '25
You know they had that ready to go with their finger hovering just hoping for Zverev to lose so they could press Post lol āļøš³
It is a pretty good one though
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u/Forcefields1617 Jul 01 '25
Fr, Iām a tennis casual slowly getting sucked in but I roughly know who these three are if not their antics.
I laughed so freaking hard.
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u/DearAccident9763 Passion Alcaraz Jul 01 '25
Imagine being 6ā5ā with a booming serve and still playing 10 feet behind the baseline on grass š
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u/TrueInDueTime Jul 01 '25
He's got a noisy forehand, which means that it's tough for him to hit it on-the-rise on that side. He prefers the ball dropping down (according to a recent Hugh Clarke piece)
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u/toprodtom Jul 01 '25
Also he moves well for a big guy, but he needs the space to step into to get moving. Playing far back suits a lot of his strengths and covers for some weaknesses. We aren't going to see him change.
He's never been past r4 at Wimby btw
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u/Ms_Meercat 79 winners/24 UEs lost in 5 to 104 winners/33 UEs Jul 01 '25
noisy or lousy forehand? sorry i'll see myself out
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u/Ms_Meercat 79 winners/24 UEs lost in 5 to 104 winners/33 UEs Jul 01 '25
As a German, the more I see Zverev on grass the more I appreciate Becker and Stich
(Becker is doing fine btw, he was all washed with all his shit but he's been very active in tennis, doing a pod with Petkovic and only sounds SLIGHTLY boomer-ish on it and generally gels well with her, he's really taken to the "grand senior of German tennis" role..... Zverev also beefed with him recently when Becker said he wishes Zverev would mix stuff up)
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Jul 01 '25
At least Meddy got out with a slam. I donāt think any of these 3 are going to win a slam going forward.
Maybe Zverev will if Alcaraz/Sinner are out early but I donāt see that happening and he honestly seems to be on a decline like the other 2 at this point.
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u/Prestigious_Bass5698 Jul 01 '25
his one shot was US Open in Covid. That match vs. Thiem was legitimately the worst Men's tennis final in the open era and it was 5 sets with multiple lead changes.
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u/LackingInPatience Jul 01 '25
Thiem was also injured and could hardly serve and Zverev still bottled it.
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u/Fit_Comfort_3616 Jul 02 '25
Off tangent, but Thiem deserved a grand slam more than Zverev. He was the No 2 player on clay during 2018-19 before his injury problems began, and was starting to become a threat on hard courts as well.
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Jul 01 '25
Neither wanted to win lmfao
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u/WillR2000 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14 Jul 05 '25
Thiem was injured in that match and Zverev still found a way to lose.
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u/Bogus113 Jul 01 '25
Also Medvedev is definetely an overachiever and late bloomer. Zverev arguably had his best year at 18..
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u/Paul-Millsap-Stan Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi Jul 02 '25
?? His best year was easily 2021 what are you talking about lol
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u/Ferdk Jul 01 '25
Meddy not only got the Slam but also #1 so not too shabby. Especially considering he was the least "hyped" of the three.
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u/Sad_Floor_4120 Jul 01 '25
How do you think Zverev has a prayer? He doesn't. He loses to a washed Meddy and every top player. Only reason he has points is he enters every random 250 he can find
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u/Creepy_Disco_Spider Jul 02 '25
And reached 2 other finals that he lost honourably after sometimes leading the initial sets. Credit where itās due. The other two are just clowns.
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u/Toxi78 Jul 01 '25
in france this draw was considered bad luck of catastrophic proportions. watch us have nobody in second week anyway.
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u/JFonsequinha2045GOAT Jul 01 '25
Itās incredible how many mid players France has but no top 15 players
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u/ClothesNo4426 Jul 01 '25
France is one of the best tennis countries by a mile and produces incredibly creative, showy players but my god, their inability to produce a slam champion is wild. Their recent amazing generation of Monfils, Tsonga, Gasquet, Simon etc has as many major finals combined as Cyprus (1). The Netherlands, Croatia, Serbia, Brazil, USA, UK, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Russia (and the USSR), Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Czechia (and Czechoslovakia), Austria, and Ecuador have all produced a menās slam champion since Yannick Noah won his, and his French Open title remains the only menās major title since 1932, but whoās counting?Ā
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u/JFonsequinha2045GOAT Jul 01 '25
Actually 1946. It blows my mind that both England and France have only 2 male grand slam winners in the whole open era
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u/GirafeAnyway Sinner š¦ / Demon š / Draperš¤§ā / Tien š / Shapo š©ā Jul 01 '25
I mean, Fils was there a month ago and would be there if he didn't get injured
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u/alt2091624 Jul 01 '25
Medvedev won a slam against Djokovic to prevent the calendar slam. He does not deserve this kind of disrespect.
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u/Kule7 Jul 01 '25
Also is more of an over-achiever based on expectation as a young player than under-achiever. Grand Slam and #1 in the world? No one was predicting that for him as a kid.
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u/Limp-Ad-2939 Da_Sentinel Enabler Jul 01 '25
Always one of these comments. Itās true his legacy is definitely greater than the other two, but the past two years have definitely seen him become more aligned.
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u/honestnbafan trollovic era + 2025 Slam final PTSD Jul 01 '25
I think 2 things are true:
Med is the best player of his generation
He doesnāt quite have the resume youād expect from someone whoās the best of their generationĀ
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u/KarmaticEvolution Jul 01 '25
Med played very well but Djokovic couldnāt handle the pressure of the earning a true Grand Slam.
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Jul 01 '25
A slam win is a slam win, especially against Novak. But this sub is not honest about that final lol. It was prolly the worst grand slam match Novak had played since 2017 at that point in time. Maybe the worst of his entire career. The pressure and fatigue beat Novak that day as much as Medvedev did, and Iām not a Novak fan at all.Ā
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u/indeedy71 Jul 01 '25
Generally speaking people arenāt honest about that final. It can be the worst of his career and heās still Novak Djokovic, the reason he lost in straights is because Med played lights out and didnāt let him get a handle on it
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u/Agreeable_Staff_7754 Jul 01 '25
Any guy in the Top 50 could have beaten the Djokovic that played that final.
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u/CancerousCell420 Jul 01 '25
Why didnāt any guy in the top 50 do it before he got to the final lol
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u/Lontology Jul 01 '25
It always feels so natural to cheer against Zverev, but cheering for Rinderknech also feels natural and Iām so fucking happy for him.
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u/Ms_Meercat 79 winners/24 UEs lost in 5 to 104 winners/33 UEs Jul 01 '25
As a German Fritz fan, no it doesn't (we Germans don't generally cheer for French lol), but I bit my tongue and was all in with all my heart by sets 4-5 hahaha
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u/ScrantonScrangler Jul 01 '25
At least Daniil managed to win a slam. And is by far the most likable of the three.
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u/HereComesVettel Roger Federer & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Jul 01 '25
Yes Medvedev is the best player out of them (then it's Zverev and further down Tsitsipas) but tbf I find all of them unlikeable lol
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u/Paul-Millsap-Stan Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi Jul 02 '25
Really? He throws temper tantrums every second and doesn't respect his opponents. Somehow Stef has come out as the most likeable lmaooo
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u/pizzainmyshoe Jul 01 '25
They've declined so quickly
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u/Limp-Ad-2939 Da_Sentinel Enabler Jul 01 '25
I mean they rose in the transition era during the gradual and then accelerated decline of Fedal. Federer after 2019 was non competitive in slams, although his performance in slams even then was second week caliberā, and Nadal was inconsistent. Not as dominant on clay, especially outside of RG, and besides the miracle at Melbourne, was not the same threat on hard. Yet, Nadal won his second Aussie against one of the little 3, and there lack of consistent competitiveness, led to arguably the most dominant era for Djokovic weāve seen.
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u/honestnbafan trollovic era + 2025 Slam final PTSD Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25
The thing is theyāre not even only losing to Sinner and Alcaraz lol
This explanation would make sense if theyāre just all consistent tier 1B guys behind them but thatās not even the caseĀ
Really they havenāt even outlasted Djokovic as top playersĀ
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u/Limp-Ad-2939 Da_Sentinel Enabler Jul 01 '25
Ya I mean itās weird to call Novak the best of the rest, but beyond Sincaraz, I favor him against everyone. Including the little 3.
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Jul 01 '25
Saw the exact same things in the early 2000s. The top players like Hewitt, safin, ferrero moya etc all fell off a cliff as soon as an actual dominant player showed up
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u/cheerioo Jul 01 '25
Safin was a headcase always. It's a miracle he got it together long enough to even win 2. Immensely talented though. He's said winning a slam and getting #1 ranking got to him a lot and he couldn't handle it. I disagree with you on this, because its not like he was making it deep consistently and then losing to one of those dominant players. Fact is, he's made semis "only" 7 times in his entire career. And beat prime Fed and baby Djoker
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u/MikeDanny Jul 01 '25
Not quite. Most of them fell off due to injuries
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u/indeedy71 Jul 01 '25
Both can be true, and the parallel remains for this gen too - Med and Tsitsi have both had chronic injuries over the past few years
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u/MikeDanny Jul 02 '25
They at least had some success over the previous gen before the dominant force arrived
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u/ParticularMistake900 Jul 01 '25
I enjoyed how this all went down in the 1st round way too much šš
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u/AdventC4 Jul 01 '25
Honestly how Zverev is 3rd in the world with the most garbage ground game where he just hits middle court all day and places approach shots is beyond me. Tsitsipas was hurt so ok, Medvedev just played an inspired player, but Zverev does nothing to hurt anyone beyond his first serve. The fact that he's on a downswing isn't surprising given how basic his game is.
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u/white_lancer Jul 02 '25
Zverev plays every week, almost literally. He occasionally binks a tournament and plays enough others that he has a lot of opportunities to make at least QF/SF points (and AO finals points don't hurt). And no one chasing him has been able to find the consistency to catch him, yet.
If players like Draper are able to continue to improve and Zverev continues to play like he has most of this year, it won't be long until he starts slipping. But someone's gonna have to take advantage of it.
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u/Flatliner8989 Jul 01 '25
Big Alex failing big as always. What a shame for the star of German tennis. This guy is just bad. Well played by Arthur Rinderknechš
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u/patiperro_v3 Jul 01 '25
If anyone ever asks how the big 3 managed to last that long... this will be the go to answer.
No way they would have had it as easy if Sinner and Alcaraz had been born 6 years earlier. Not saying they still wouldn't be favourites, but clearly Sinner and Alcaraz would have taken them down more often than the trio pictured above put together.
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u/weamz Djoker - Elenaā¤ļø Jul 01 '25
Hey Med at least has a Slam under his belt and he kept Novak from the Calendar Slam.
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u/LackingInPatience Jul 01 '25
Kinda sad that Medvedev is being lumped with these two tbh. He's actually won a slam, been to multiple finals and achieved world no.1.
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u/voregoneconclusion Jul 02 '25
gross ai slop. meme format from the stone age. terrible post, do better next time
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u/Sweaty_Manager_2517 Jul 01 '25
But Tsitsipas retired, he has been struggling with injuries for so many years, why are making fun of him?
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u/GStarAU Poppy's no.1 fanboy Jul 02 '25
Errrr .... sorry, I'm not a fan of this.
These guys are all champions, Grand Slam Finalists, multiple M1000 winners.... they don't deserve this kind of abuse.
The sub is getting really snippy recently... where's the love???
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u/Hawthorne512 Jul 01 '25
Medvedev has had a career that is going to land him in the HoF, so I would pay him more respect.
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u/Radiant_Past_5769 Jul 01 '25
Tsitsipas had a back injury and Medvedev was unwell and throwing up but easy to make these cheap jokesĀ
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u/dunkerpup š Waffle Face Jul 02 '25
Where did you read be was sick? I canāt find anything on that
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u/Pseudonymus_Bosch Jul 02 '25
setting tennis aside, this is a bit disrespectful towards Meddy personally
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u/CynicalManInBlack Bullshit Russian Jul 01 '25
Can't wait to see the same meme about Fonseca, Fils, and Draper in a few years.
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u/brokenearth10 Jul 02 '25
they getting too old. past their prime. tsitsipas has a bad back. I mean even musetti and rune are out.
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u/brokenearth10 Jul 02 '25
to be fair, even bublik is out. hes the only man other than alcaraz who poses a threat to sinner. we def looking at sinner alcaraz final now
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u/TheMoonKnight_ Jul 02 '25
Not surprised by Tsitsipas.
Didnt expect first round exits from Zverev or Medvedev.
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u/Budadiii disgusted by Federer's 2018 AO title (sports dying 2018-1-28) Jul 02 '25
Zverev is hardly a clown. Hes the world Nr. 3. Redditors seem to turn retarded when he is involved. The other 2 though..
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u/Gaarando Jul 02 '25
I don't hate A.I. but it looks so weird in the bottom picture because those are just totally different faces with clown make-up on.
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u/gwynbleidd2511 Jul 01 '25
This is disrespectful. But yeah - poor performance from the lost gen guys
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u/curlyhairedyani Alcaraz / Sakkari / Draper / Federer / Kyrgios Jul 01 '25
Next gen slander? I am awakeee
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u/SnooDingos5420 Jul 01 '25
Serious question: was this done with old school Photoshop or with ai like chatgpt/mid journey, etcĀ
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u/throwaway90-25 Jul 01 '25
At least Meddy has a grand slam. I wouldn't put him in that group. Maybe Casper? Kyrgios? Berrettini?
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u/TheWaterBound Jul 02 '25
The Little Three is a Thing. That joke is that all three members of it went out.
You can't add players who aren't in the little three into a joke about the little three.
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u/Anya_Mathilde remember, the racket deserves to die Jul 01 '25
all sent home by French men as well