Updates as the world’s No 2 and 3 players collide in LondonBerrettini hails ‘unbelievable season’ after beating Thiem Email Daniel or tweet him with your thoughts on the match 11.06am GMT
Well! Is the playing field finally level? These two meet tonight having both lost to Dominic Thiem, while
Rafael Nadal was beaten by Alex Zverev then only just sneaked by Daniil Medvedev. It’s taken years and skipped a generation – we’ve seen the false dawns of your Griggsys, your Nickys, your Miloses and the rest – but finally, aged 127, 109 and 106 respectively, the big three are losing big matches to children. Quite how tennis copes with that, I’ve not a clue – for a decade, it was the best sport in the world in terms of how good its greatest were, and it’s inconceivable that these will be anywhere near them – but we’re good for a change, and it looks like we’re getting one.
Whoever wins tonight will join Thiem and Stefanos Tsitsipas in the semi-finals, with Zverev and Medvedev fighting over the final sport tomorrow. I’d be buzzing for that if I wasn’t replete with buzz for this – we don’t know how much more of these boys we’ve got, so it’s our duty as human beings to wade right into them while we can. Yalla yalla!
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