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  • Re: First time I see Alcatraz ...

    From Sawfish@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, September 06, 2026 16:18:25
    On 9/6/26 12:44 PM, Pelle Svansl”s wrote:
    ... after the injury.

    My God, he is good. Better than I expected him to be at this stage.

    That's no shit. I made sure not to chose him for the US Open because he
    he was off so long, with no tune-ups, but he looks like a sure winner at
    this point.

    Devastated Paul and Paul played as well as he is capable of.

    Completely owned him.

    The
    distance between him and a decent pedestrian is an infinity. Reminds me
    a bit of Federer in 2004.

    I gather the tour is doing pretty well ATM. Don't know where I've
    gathered that. But when you look at some of these also-rans, you gotta scratch your head. If there's one player worth watching, what do those people buy tickets for?



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  • From Whisper@3:633/10 to All on Monday, September 07, 2026 19:20:18
    On 7/09/2026 9:18 am, Sawfish wrote:
    On 9/6/26 12:44 PM, Pelle Svansl”s wrote:
    ... after the injury.

    My God, he is good. Better than I expected him to be at this stage.

    That's no shit. I made sure not to chose him for the US Open because he
    he was off so long, with no tune-ups, but he looks like a sure winner at this point.



    I picked him to crawl his way into the final but lose lol. I figured
    he's so good he could still do that, but his wrist injury would have resurfaced and left him hobbled in the final. I guess that could still happen, but it looks like he's managing it well by not going all out on
    the serve. Instead he's upped his court movement and using variety to
    win as quickly as possible. Good if you have those kind of options to
    call on.



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  • From Sawfish@3:633/10 to All on Monday, September 07, 2026 08:30:55
    On 9/7/26 2:20 AM, Whisper wrote:
    On 7/09/2026 9:18 am, Sawfish wrote:
    On 9/6/26 12:44 PM, Pelle Svansl”s wrote:
    ... after the injury.

    My God, he is good. Better than I expected him to be at this stage.

    That's no shit. I made sure not to chose him for the US Open because
    he he was off so long, with no tune-ups, but he looks like a sure
    winner at this point.



    I picked him to crawl his way into the final but lose lol.˙ I figured
    he's so good he could still do that, but his wrist injury would have resurfaced and left him hobbled in the final.˙ I guess that could still happen, but it looks like he's managing it well by not going all out on
    the serve.˙ Instead he's upped his court movement and using variety to
    win as quickly as possible.˙ Good if you have those kind of options to
    call on.



    He has every option and then some.

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