Wimbledon '26: Sinner dominates Djokovic, will Zverev stop him in the final?

It was deja vu for Jannik Sinner, who once again defeated Novak Djokovic in straight sets to reach the final of Wimbledon. His opponent is a very inspired Alexander Zverev, who looks primed to snap his losing streak against the Italian. Will grass give the big-serving Zverev an edge? Or will Sinner successfully defend his title?

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

It's gonna be one versus two in the finals of SW19 as Yannick Center and Alexander Zverev are set to duel for Sunday's championship. Both Yannick and Alexander had drama-free straight set semifinal wins over Novak Djokovic and Arthur Ferry, respectively. Joining me today is fellow tennis content creator Jalen Jackson who will help me analyze both semifinals and preview the final before we predict a winner. Jalen, welcome back to Christian's Court. How are you feeling on this fine Friday?

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Not too bad. I can't complain at all. Um we had some very straightforward matches, so you know, uh lots to talk about in the details, but pretty straightforward as it went for the tennis. Um, thank you for having me, Christian. I appreciate it. Good to see Christian's Court again.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

Of course, we're happy to have you back, Christian's Christian Screw. I know they'll be happy to see you back. So, first starting by talking about the second and I guess more highly anticipated semifinal between Yannick Center and Novak Djokovic. For the second straight year, Yannick he took down the Joker in the woman in the semifinal and in straight sets. This year he got the job done routinely 4-4-4 to reach his first slam final of the season and his seventh overall. To me, this kind of felt like deja vu with the Alcaraz Djokovic semifinal from the US Open to where Alcaraz, they both Carlos and Yannick got revenge from like a rather surprising loss to Novak from the Australian Open before getting their straight sets wins in the next meeting. And in both matches, to me, Novak he kept it fairly competitive in the early parts. And then once it got down, or once Novak got down to two sets to love, it just felt like a rap. Um, but Jalen, what were your thoughts? Um initial thoughts and impressions on the match?

SPEAKER_01 1:44

I don't think two days, well, the first thing that jumped out to me was I don't think two days was enough to recover for Novak. He looked a little tired, maybe, and maybe tired is not the right word, but a little fatigued in the big moments sometimes. Um, the rallies were not nearly as long as I expected them to be throughout today. Um, Yannick Center came out and impressed really what I believe to be the first time out of the matches that I've seen at this year's Wimbledon. Um he had a clear and concise game plan to um not let Djokovic really take hold in the rallies. Um, from the jump, he was not um hesitant to attack um off the ground stroke, and it kind of looked like Novak was trying to match him um maybe from the baseline a bit too much, and then it got a little bit later and tried, he tried to throw in some different things coming up to the net, maybe keeping the ball a little shorter, variating the difference of like how far he was hitting it in. Um, but yeah, there was just a few loose, unforced errors. Yannick was serving really well, as we've come to get used to this year with him, and you know, it was it was a pretty straightforward victory overall, even though it's yes as grass, the points were very short.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

It was definitely more serve dominant, especially compared to Melbourne, their last match. And there were only, I think, three total breaks of serve. All of them went to Yannick, and a big thing was that Yannick was much more opportunistic on his break points. I think he was like two and eighteen in Melbourne. But on that point of like the serve, definitely center was more efficient on his serve. Um, and his second serve in particular, it was a drastic difference between him and Novak because Yannick won 61% of his second serve points, and Novak won just 33% of his second serve points today. And Novak in Australia, he won 51% of second serve points. And I think some of that could be like Yannick and his second serve. It was harder for Novak to, you know, actually attack and gain upper ground whenever he did see second serves. Um, but even when Novak attacked, I felt like Yannick just absorbed the pace so well and was able to able to neutralize and get on the offensive quickly and make Novak move and just test his legs. Not only is he 39 years old, but it's just coming off that five hour epic over FAA. I feel like a way in which he did that, one shot in particular I was really impressed with was his backhand down the line. Like he used that a number of times to gain the upper hand, and he was also able to really test Novak's change of direction and his movement with that shot. And Novak, unsurprisingly, he looked half a second slower. I think that down the line shot is an even better shot to use on grass because it's not as easy to get your footing on grass compared to hardcore. I also think he just moved better. I mean, again, expected he's like 15 years younger than him, but just the way that he slid all around the court, like he was playing like it was clay court. I felt like he was suffocating to Novak. Like it's it was hard for him to actually get him on the defensive a lot of times.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

I would agree. They showed a graphic during the broadcast where um Djokovic's Djokovic was standing in Melbourne versus where he was standing having to play him in Wimbledon, and it was a full like two and a half feet back, you know, off the baseline. And I think that two and a half feet, um, you you know, John McEnroe was talking about this, about like how he has to hit the ball harder to make up for the ground, and he wasn't able to do that. Another point that I was like noticing between the difference between Djokovic's second serve and center's second serve was how close they were landing to the lines. Yannick was a lot more clinical in hitting it closer to the lines, getting it to spin off and making it really uncomfortable for Djokovic to return. So those are those are two great points as well about Yannick's serve and the way that he was just really suffocating on top of the baseline. He was not waiting to mash into the gas pedal. With uh Djokovic's serve, he needed there was no way he was gonna get out of this match alive without like an 80% first serve rate. Like there was no way he was gonna be able to dictate the points the way that center was returning his second serve with the depth, automatically pushing him back, automatically putting him on defense. Novak spent a lot of this time on the scramble. He looked very uncomfortable and like setting his feet to get through the ball a lot of times. And then the other thing was he just gave Yannick too many opportunities to be right on top of the baseline, one step in front of the baseline, and really just put the ball away. There was a lot of balls that Djokovic was left unable to get to. So that that ultimately ended up deciding the match. Um, Djokovic didn't he he didn't really get a break opportunity throughout the second set, right? Like it was uh I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

I think his first break look came in the third set. Yeah, his first break. But he had a few opportunities, like even though they weren't actual break points, like there were sometimes, yeah, like Love 30, 1530.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

But then Yannick ended up again, he just takes the racket out of your hand at this particular moment in time. Like with him stepping up his level on his serve, that's been one of the really like craziest additions to one of the best players we saw already. So with that, there wasn't much Djokovic could have done. I mean, he tried the variety, I want to say, like mid of the middle of the second set. He tried to switch it up with uh getting up to the net, maybe trying to bring Yannick in, and it was kind of to no avail.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

I 100% agree with everything you said. And I feel like Novak, I don't if there is one thing or a couple things. For first, I think he didn't use his backhand down the line enough. I feel like he may have played it a little bit too safe with his backhand, especially earlier on in the match, and with how well Yannick was hitting the ball, like even on his forehand side, because that's the thing, we were all looking out on Yannick's forehand because that was a little bit shaky in the earlier part of the event. But he was hitting his forehand well today, so he would take advantage of so many mid-court balls. And I think Novak did do a better job of going for that backhand line later on in the match, midway to the final part stages of the match. Um, I think he narrowly missed one at 1530 at 2-3, and that would have given him two break points. Um, but still, I think the backhand down the lines helped him generate his lone break point of the match in the third set, which Yannick erased with an ace. So that just goes to show like this man is just so, so, so clutch. Um, you there's really nothing you can do about that if you're Novak. I do think Novak's forehand, it wasn't where it needed to be. That was the most impressive shock to me in their match in Melbourne. Like he was he was cracking that forehand, like especially with the forehand down the line. He went for more risk and it it paid off. And I think he was aided, Novak was in Melbourne because he had that walkover from Mendic and then the retirement win from Mussetti, sorry. And then here, of course, like you said, those two days didn't really help him, so he wasn't quite on, I feel overall, and that probably bled into why he wasn't as effective on those shots. But I feel like the forehand let him down a lot more in the second and third sets, and that just goes to like age and the amount of hours he had on the court this tournament. On the flip side, Yannick's forehand, probably the best that we've seen at this tournament for sure. It had its poor moments, the forehand of centers in Melbourne. Um, and we did see a few, you know, shaky moments, you know, early in the second set, and that was maybe an opportunity for Novak to take advantage, but Yannick was able to again kind of snuff it out.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Djokovic used that uh that forehand, especially like right on the like right on top of the baseline. He was hitting the ball in in Melbourne, I'm saying he was hitting that ball where Yannick seemingly seemingly had to like move away from the ball. Um, he wasn't able to get his leg. That that was the biggest indicator that his legs weren't there today. He wasn't able to hit it as big up the middle to a big target to kind of force Yannick to scramble out of the way. I felt like that. They got him a lot of free points in Melbourne, and that was kind of a race today. Um he just he just couldn't get enough like oomph on the ball to make anything, to make any headway in in the in the sets.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

Now, final parting thoughts on Novak before we move on to you know the other obviously aspects of the video. What are your parting thoughts on Novak? You know, are you were you impressed with him or does anything change in your mind about him? For me, it just feels like it's like the same thing. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

It is the same. I went into this tournament feeling with Novak that this may be his like, you know, like quote unquote last opportunity to uh win a major or last best opportunity is the terminology uh I've been seeing a lot and I've been using personally. But I've been very, I was very impressed with his win over OJ Aliasim. Oj Aliasim definitely had that look in his eye of, okay, I'm coming, like I'm not losing this match. And somehow Djokovic still found a way to make zero enforced errors in the fifth set tie break. So I mean, you know, I'm so thoroughly impressed with Djokovic again. You know, it's nothing, there's no new thoughts. Um, even with the last best opportunity, I I don't think going into the US Open that he's really lost a step. I'm excited to see how many warm-up tournaments he plays going into this US Open.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

See if he plays any at all.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Yeah, he probably won't, you know. If I'm him, I'm looking to just kind of play my way into the tournament once the US Open comes around. I need that rest, and I would rather see my kids. So um, you know, I uh but overall, my thoughts with Djokovic during this tournament have been just man, this guy, we are just so fortunate to have this guy and be able to watch him, even you know, you start as a young one in front of the TV watching Djokovic, and now I'm a grown man watching him still do the same things to people, and it's amazing. But Yannick just simply outplayed him today. He can't hang his head at that.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

Not at all, and I 100% agree. And for sure, even though he wasn't able to come out on top of this match, the streets will definitely remember that quarterfinal win over FAA. And I know a Gil Groves mentioned this too, and I was having the same thoughts. It's like it's crazy how Novak at 39 years old probably has like the top at least multiple matches in the top five best matches of the year so far, like Djokovic Center, um, Djokovic Fonseca, Djokovic FAA, the fact that he's still entertaining us like this, even in the matches themselves, like the drama, the theatrics, like really, you have to just sit in awe and just clap it up to him for how he constantly does this time after time. So, moving on and talking about the first semifinal, Alexander Zverev, he ended Arthur Ferry's fairy tale run to the Woman semifinals with a 7-6, 6-2, 6-4 win to reach his maiden Woman final. And Zverev, he now has reached the finals of all four majors. And what's funny is that when Tennis TV posted that, I was like, wait, did they make an era? He I don't remember him making a final of Australia. But like that, that goes to show to me how no shade to Yannick Center. That 2025 final was forgettable for me. I'm sorry, I forgot that even happened. Um, but it yeah. So hopefully, I'm getting ahead of myself, but hopefully this final is definitely more memorable than memorable than that one. But um, focusing on on Ferry, this was a good showing for him showing for him, even though he did lose some straight sets. A really competitive first set that ended kind of anticlimatically because he didn't win a point in the second set tie break. Yeah, um, and Zverev kind of ran away with it in the end. But Jalen, what were your thoughts on the match?

SPEAKER_01 13:17

I'm just happy that Zverev uh Zverev is more um entertaining to watch now. Um, there's just some key aspects of his game that have really impressed me, like as an objective tennis fan, has been his ability to crank the forehand when he needs to, his ability to really be at an elite level with his first serve, especially, but both serves, you know, he he will throw in some double faults um still, but the the level that he stepped up to on his first serve has just been, you know, otherworldly. He's been that that's gonna help him out immensely. And then the other thing is he doesn't just camp three to four feet behind the baseline, even when he hits a good shot, like he's willing to move into the baseline. He's not just moving laterally, he's also moving into the court as well. You know, that's uh that's been impressive to see. With Zaverev, the main thing is that he looks like he's won a major. And we don't we don't have to we don't have to pretend anymore. That major put a battery in his back. Um, and it's really as simple as that. His his ability to manage big points now, his like ability to keep his head, he is you know getting through hit opponents he's supposed to beat, and pretty much he, you know, he's number well now two with this win, but um, he was number three in the world with a significant gap in my mind for a reason, and now I feel like he's proving it. So that's my main takeaway as far as Zverev. Um, Fairy Man, you know, this is one of those he was playing with house money as far literally, he's he's like from right down the street. For him to get into a tiebreaker in that first set is is huge for him. It was always gonna be a tough matchup. I mean, you know, he's 5'9, it's kind of tough to match up against a big server like Zverev. And then for him to get to a tiebreaker in the first set is impressive in it in and of itself. But yeah, the the second and third set told me that that's how I more expected this match to go.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

Yeah, 100%. And it was just you saw like a step up in class. Like, this is no Flavio Kaboli, no shade of Flavio Kaboli. Um, but like Zverev just has just that extra, you know, oomph right now, like you mentioned, and a lot of it is because he just won a slam, like he just has a different type of conviction about him. And um, Ferry's serve, unsurprisingly, was tested the most out of this tournament. Zverev won 46% of his return points, and Ferry just managed to win 22% of his, so that was a huge difference. And Zverev's forehand, I mean, I've really never seen him hit it with this much conviction. Um, against Ferry, 19 winners, only six winners on the backhand side, so he's definitely, you know, peaked Zverev on the forehand side, and also his ability to be more aggressive and come to the net. And I was just thinking that too, when you said he's more enjoyable to watch, because I'm sorry, sometimes he plays a little bit too tentative at times, and this is why he's had more success, I feel, at this woman compared to Woman's past. But he came to net 24 times against Ferry and won 67% of those net points, so that's huge for him, of course. Um, parting thoughts on Arthur Ferry. I mean, huge life-changing run for him. I mean, going from 114 to 36 in the rankings, he single-handedly carried British tennis on his British tennis on his back this fortnight because they were in the trenches with Draper out, you know, Radhou Kahn, even the women's side, Radoukanu. So many of them lost in the first round. So I know that was good for British tennis that he had this magical run. So now moving on to the, of course, the the finale, the actual final between Yannick and Alexander. Yannick leads the head-to-head 10-4 and has won their last nine meetings. Uh, and Zverev has won just two sets in those last nine meetings. This is the second slam final between these two after 2025 Australian Open, which I talked about earlier in the video, which wasn't all that much of a final, to be totally honest. But how are you feeling about this matchup? Where's your excitement level at?

SPEAKER_01 17:27

Out of 10, it's about it's a seven.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

It's a seven. I was gonna say the same thing, a seven for me, too.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

And I know seven's like a cop-out answer sometimes, but I can explain, I promise. Um, Zavere looks like a different player against Arthur Ferry is my asterisk. That's where you know, three points get taken off, and also um, you know, he just he just has been historically bad against Yannick Center in the you know, he won, he's lost the last nine meetings, but this is the one that I'm the most excited about, if uh if it is is why I would say about a seven. I mean, he did all of these magical things against Arthur Ferry, you know what I mean? Uh, you know, can he do that against the number one player in the world? He's not gonna be able to get away with the same things. What is working on his side, he's serving extremely well. Can he continue to step up and hit the forehand as well as he has? Can he continue to impose his will on the matches? Pretty much making his serve, keep keeping his nerve to make the service games routine. The forehand and the first serve percentage, do those stick around for the number one player in the world? That's my biggest question for him. Center, once he made it past the third round, center looked put together, he looked poised, he looks like Yannick Center, like the Yannick Center we know and love. So I'm pretty sure he's a pretty sure bet to at least show up and be center-like. Can Zaverev match up to that level finally? We'll see. That's that's all of my questions going in, but I'm at about a seven overall as far as the excitement.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

I agree. I'm about a at about a seven. I think with this being on grass, it makes it a little bit more exciting for me. I say that because in the four meetings that they've had this year, the two um well, actually, it was really only one truly competitive meeting out of those four. And I'm talking about Miami. Um but that was you know the quickest conditions compared to the other three. Ending wells notoriously played slower, even though it was hardcore. And then they met in the Madrid final and in Monte Carlo. And I think Grass helps Varev because he'll be able to win more free points behind the serve. Center was making him sweat in nearly all of his service games in those two meetings on clay this year. So I again I think the serve will be an important factor, more of an important factor here in this matchup, which bodes better for him. Definitely, I think it'll come down to who has the stronger serve. Who do you think has the stronger serve? Or who do you who do you anticipate having the stronger, more efficient serve for this final?

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Uh Yannick Center, purely because there's not as much of a double fault risk. With uh with Zverev, you're always kind of holding your breath when he does miss the first serve, especially on those big moments. I'll give the edge to center um just because there's not as big of a threat on the double fault or him just kind of I've I've still seen Zverev roll in like a little second serve. You know, he's not gonna be able to get away with that against Yannick. So my edge goes to Yannick. He's overall more consistent.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

I think I'll give the edge to Yannick, but I'll say I think center definitely the better pressure server. Zverev has shown that he's been clutch this tournament, which is I've been impressed with him against Lehechka in the first two sets. He was clutch, even against Taylor Fritz. Um, but still Yannick is just a class above in that regard right now. I do think that Zverev definitely is a maybe a more consistent high-level server. And when I say that is because we can bank on him to have a higher first serve percentage at least. Sometimes Yannick's first serve, it was good against Novak for his standards at least. He was around like the 65% range. Um, but sometimes it can be in like the 40% range, even at some port parts. Yeah, and that could hurt him a lot. Um, I do think also Zverev, his serve, like his last two rounds to serving has been on another level. And even Fritz, he said that Zverev is going to be incredibly tough to beat with how well he's serving. Against Taylor, 77% first serve serves in and points won. And what's crazy, 72% second serve points won for Zverev in that match. And he saved all four of his break points. And then against Ferry, even more impressed with the fact that he won 77% of first serve points, 72% first, 72% first serves in, 82% second serve points won. Yeah, that's really that's incredible. So I think not only is he hitting his first serve well, but he he's hitting a second serve with high quality too. So that's another thing to another thing to look out for to see who wins that battle of the stronger second serves. Obviously, Zvera's forehand has improved. And center's forehand, it looked great against Novak. But how do you see it shaking out here? Because you know, center can still be a little bit more vulnerable with the forehand side. How do you see the points kind of shaking out and what one guy wants to do versus the other guy?

SPEAKER_01 22:14

The X factor for center is going to be that backhand down the line. That's uh that's what I'm very excited to see. Center's backhand down the line versus Zaverev's new found forehand. Will the forehand on Zaverev's side be able to keep him from getting attacked? Because against center, he's been great and very potent about attacking Zaverev's forehand when they get into the ground game. That is gonna tell me very in the first set, like maybe you know, looking at the first six games between the two of them, how quickly is Yannick gonna go back to that tactic of beating him down on that forehand side? And is it gonna work? Yannick is Mr. Consistent. The way he played against Novak today tells me that he is at 100%. He is firing at all cylinders again. So um it's gonna be tough for Zverev to kind of break down the ground strokes of Yannick as you know, as per usual. But the biggest, like the showdown for me tomorrow, when they do the points they do get into that are not decided by the serve, how does Yannick attack Zverev's forehand still? That's that's really that's my biggest question for tomorrow or for Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

And I think it'll be interesting because they both have really good backhand down the lines. And I noticed that Zverev has used that shot, you know, great this tournament, especially against Taylor Fritz. We've also seen a little bit more variety from Zverev, you know, incorporating more slices. As I mentioned, he's had more willingness to come to the net, but still I feel like center has that variety edge. Thinking back to the Australian open final, because like I said, it wasn't much to remember about it, but I do distinctly remember him beating Zverev a lot with that drop shot. So that's definitely a shot I'm going to be looking forward or looking for him to use um quite a bit. Now, last thing kind of talking about the mental and the tangible aspects of things. This might be a little bit of a hot take, but I feel like there's more pressure on Yannick coming into this final. Absolutely. You know, trying to defend his Woman title. It's been a year since he's last won a slam, which isn't you know that long, but as far as like for Yannick, that's probably an eternity. Um Zverev he already got his slam like a month ago, and it feels like he this is more or less house money for him because again, he had never made it to the the quarterfinals of Woman before this year. Now he's into a final, so he's happy. You know, he's the happiest he he can be. But should we expect to see more of a nervy performance from Yannick on Sunday? How do you how do you see that um coming about or maybe being a factor?

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Well, the only thing I have to kind of attribute it to is him winning um all the masters this year. And I know it's not the same level. I just kind of want to start there because that's the pressure we've kind of seen him have to deal with this year, you know, with the back of his mind being like, okay, like I'm about to break some serious records here, right? So taking that into Sunday's final against Zaverev, I would expect him to be rock solid. Um, I know that Zaverev has that pigeon on his shoulder of like beat Yannick center to win a final. And I think that's the new added kind of layer. If in my mind, if I'm in Zaverev's shoes, you know, like, okay, finally I got it done, but I got it against the wrong Italian in a way. You know what I mean? I don't know how much the the noise will affect him. I'll be looking at that. As far as Yannick being nervous, I absolutely see where you're coming from. And that's also going to be a big storyline going into Sunday because he he does he hasn't won a major this year, and his team is pretty much constructed to have him win the most important tournaments in the world, right? I mean, even though Zaverev looks like a different player with this, uh with this newfound major from the French Open this year, you know, he's still he's gotta beat Yannick. You know, that that's that in in my mind, that's how I'm thinking about it. But is he thinking about that? It's gotta be there, it's gotta be present somewhere around it.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

I mean, I think it might help him a little bit that the fact that he finally beat Fritz after seven straight L's, but still Yannick is a different animal, especially in the slam final. And I mean, obviously, it's still gonna be pressure on Zverev, even though he did win his slam. Uh, he would actually be the first man in the open era to win his immediate next uh to win um the slam after winning his maiden slam. And also he'd try or he'd be going for the channel slam, and he would be the just the seventh man in the open era to ever do that, which is like that's crazy. Imagine saying that before Roland Garros. Like, I would have thought you were crazy. Now we can just get right into predictions. Who do you have winning this one within final and in how many sets?

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Okay, I am gonna go for center in five. I think it's gonna be you know, I think this is gonna be an entertaining one. I am I'm actually, you know, like I said, I'm seven out of ten excited. I gotta I I gotta look at this one. So center and five, because he's going to serve better in the end and play the clutch and play the clutch points just that little bit cleaner. I think there this is gonna be the thinnest margin he has beaten Zaverev by in a very long time. He's going to be tested. There's gonna be times where center looks like he's out of it, but I think he gets it done just because he's center. I think just because he looks like he is back to good form. I know he was playing an older, more like kind of beat down Djokovic, but um, you know, I just think he plays just that little bit tighter and he gets over the finish line. But when I say it's gonna be a close, close one, I think this is gonna be, I think this is gonna be a good final.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

I 100% agree. And I have the same center and five. I feel like I was thinking about center and four, but this does, like you said, we've said this throughout this entire video, it feels like a different Alexander Zero. Again, we keep talking about the serve as well and the fact that he has more confidence, more moxie, more more aura overall heading into this one. And I am anticipating Yannick to be a little bit nervy. May whether that comes in the earlier stages of the match or the later stages, I don't know, but I do anticipate it being a factor. But ultimately, I do think it'll come down to still who is the more clutch player. And yes, while Zverev has shown that he is more clutched this event, there's still no outclutching the clutch god, and that's Yannick Center right now. So I like I said, I really do anticipate a tight one. I think this might be um the best slam final of the year thus far, or not thus far, but period that we've seen in 2026. And I I do really anticipate Yannick following in Carlos' footsteps of defending his uh first one-win title.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Kind of going back a bit on Zverev, ever since he had to come back that next day and he didn't let that Lechka match go to five, I've been I've been, you know, seeking, I've been like sneakily like impressed with the way that he handled everything. Because when they came back and he lost three straight games in a row, I was like, oh, there he is. That's the guy I know. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 29:37

Zverev, we know in the case.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Yeah, so uh ever since he got that one done in four, I was like, this guy looks a little different. Then he goes out and beat beats Fritz in straights. I know Fritz was dealing with some knee tendinitis or you know, some knee issues. Um, but you know, he that's that's been a big pigeon on his shoulder too. So when he got those two done, you know, it was it was pretty clear to me that it looks a little different. It you know, it's got a little different feeling to it.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Well, that is it for the woman in semifinal recap slash final preview. Um, of course, thank you so much, Jalen, for joining me again. I know everyone, like I said, that like I said at the beginning, everyone will be happy to have you back on the channel. And like again, you know the drill. Tell everyone where they can find you and your excellent content on TikTok, IG, wherever else.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Yeah, thank you to you know, Christian's court and the Christian's crew for having me. Like I always love to, you know, just get in here and talk tennis. That's what I do. Um, you can find me on Instagram at Jalen with an H and on TikTok, it's just my name, Jalen Jackson, or I think the username is at H-A-L-A-N.

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Yes, again, definitely follow Jalen for all his great content, great takes. Um, and we'll have him back for sure before the year's over, multiple times probably. But yeah, like again, that is that is it for the video. Thank y'all if you've made it to the end, made it to the end. Thank y'all so much for rocking. I know this is longer than the normal videos I make, but I'm glad because we got to talk in depth about everything today. If you have not already, make sure you subscribe to the channel and click the notification bell so you're notified whenever I post my final recap video. And yeah, hope you have a great rest of your day. And I'll see y'all next time here on Christian's Court.