Tennis 2025

The women's final was a thriller. Keys was widely hyped and touted as future grand slam champion, the next big thing in the sport, the player to take the 'US torch' from Serena etc, when she was a teenager. She completely froze against her good friend Sloane Stephens in the 2017 US Open final, and should have beaten Sabalenka in their 2023 US Opens semi-final but collapsed and then broke down in tears in her press conference afterwards. After that defeat, many people thought that she had blown her last chance to win a grand slam.

After getting married during the off-season, to winning a grand slam beating the 10th seed Collins, 6th seed and former Wimbledon champion Rybakina, another seeded player in Svitolina, the world no. 2 Swiatek saving a match point on return, and then the world no 1 and two time defending champion Sabalenka in succession, is just incredible. Definitely the best women's grand slam title run during his current decade.
 
Zverev called himself the best ever player to never win a grand slam.

I may not like him, but he's an incredibly good player, sure.

However, he's lived in an era with 3 over 30(the best of all time, yes) players reaching the back end of their careers, and could not beat a single one when it mattered.
There's a reason Novak memes them as much as he does.

Can't help but think Berdych, Tsonga and Ferrer lived in an era where the Big 3 were godlike, and in any other moment, all 3 would be grand slam winners at least once.
Especially Berdych.
 
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