marialuisa z.

@Gill_Gross @FedeTavera Hi Gill, the definition benefit of the doubt is "to choose to believe an explanation or accept that a person is innocent, honest, or well-intentioned, even when there is uncertainty or some evidence pointing to the contrary", so maybe that's not what you meant.

@FedeTavera What? No, I'm saying it should not be doubted. That's the phrase "give benefit of the doubt."

On the show yesterday, I made two arguments regarding Arnaldi 1) He fully deserves the benefit of the doubt, that he couldn't play 2) The threshold for withdrawing due to illness in a match like that should be extremely high Point #2 was not me saying Arnaldi should've played

@TheSinnersDrea1 Molto deludente

Ieri, dopo il ritiro di Arnaldi, volevo fare un tweet ironico ripetendo le critiche che Agassi aveva fatto a Sinner. Non c'è n'è stato bisogno. Agassi fa tutto da solo, fissando l'asticella ben oltre la soglia del ridicolo

@LanieASassyVet @TheTennisLetter This. 100%.

Respect to Andre Agassi, he’s a legend and keeps it real, but calling out Sinner’s “intake/prep” as having “no excuse” feels off here. It was 32°C+ with the roof open on Chatrier, full sun, no breeze - brutal clay grind right after Sinner’s insane Masters run. He looked fine for 1h 45, then visibly hit the wall: drenched, dizzy, medical timeout mentioning dehydration. He’s admitted feeling off that morning too. Heat and the accumulated fatigue is a real thing, even for the fittest guys. Cerundolo handled it better that day, credit to him. Sinner owned it with zero excuses, that’s class. Sometimes the human body just says “enough” despite perfect prep. Agassi’s right that fitness ≠ perfect readiness every single day, but this wasn’t just a prep fail.

Andre Agassi on Jannik Sinner's loss at Roland Garros: "I know he can play for five and half hours, he's proven it. I know he's the best player on the planet right now. But, I know there's no excuse for him to run into a wall at an hour & forty-five."

@Makanju92 This is the most obvious and logical explanation. Jannik will answer from the court, as usual.

I totally hear what Andre is saying but Jannik said it post-match. This was less of a heat/endurance thing and more r/t exhaustion. Had he not just accomplished something that basically no one has done before I would be skeptical too but that’s not the case.

@TNTSportsUS Playing amazing tennis!

HOW DID MATTEO ARNALDI WIN THIS MATCH?! 🤯

@rolandgarros He was simply amazing! Terrific match

Matteo Arnaldi won this match. #RolandGarros

@Franciturchese Mi pare anche di aver letto di una presunta dichiarazione di Jannik: "Il problema sono io" di cui non ho traccia

Se Gaia Piccardi non è capace di riportare le parole esatte di Berrettini "ciò che è successo a Jannik (il malessere) NON è RARO", ribaltando l'affermazione in "ciò che è successo NON è NORMALE" perché io dovrei credere ad un fantomatico"sono morto" che avrebbe detto ad un fisio?

@eeajjo This is genius! And agree 100%.

Jannik Sinner RG R2 Recap: Once upon a time, in a land quite near, lived a young maiden called Cindernik. Cindernik was good and kind, and had the best hand-eye coordination in all of the land. She worked very hard, day and night, hitting small yellow balls over a net. Unfortunately, she also had two evil stepsisters, called Oppressive Heat and Victorian Child Constitution, who were jealous of her talent, and worked hard to make her life as difficult as possible. One day, Cindernik received an invitation to attend a ball at the magical Roland Garros palace. She had dreamed of attending for a long time, as she knew that the King and Queen awarded a golden trophy to the fairest maiden who could best connect a ball and a racquet. However, her jealous stepsisters forbid her from attending, and locked her in a Parisian hotel room. Luckily, Cindernik had four fairy godparents, who planned to help her attend the ball, without her stepsisters finding out. So, they freed her, swapped her usual blue hat for a white one, and changed her name to “Little Miss Variety”, to ensure she would not be recognised. However, Ale-Alejandro warned her that she MUST enter the Round 3 ballroom before the clock struck 2pm, or her disguises would fade, and her evil stepsisters would recognize and punish her. Little Miss Variety smiled and nodded excitedly, and promised the fairies that she would be careful. However, she was having such a wonderful time in the Round 2 auditorium dancing to the serve-and-volley, blowing sweet drop shot kisses, and nibbling on delicious passing shot canapés, that she forgot to watch the time. She was preparing one final twirl of her racquet, before she entered the Round 3 ballroom and the start of her happily ever after, when the palace clock began to toll ominously. Cindernik panicked, and swung her racquet wildly, but it was too late. Her evil stepsisters materialised out of thin air, and immediately turned her legs to jelly so she couldn’t flee into the safety of Round 3. Cindernik pleaded with them to let her go, and tried to fight her wobbly lower limbs by using her racquet as a walking stick. Her stepsisters merely laughed wickedly, and even toyed with her by lifting the hex for a few seconds at a time. Cindernik’s sweet little mice friends tried desperately to help her, and even brought ice towels to try and freeze the curse, but the black magic was just too powerful. Finally, Cindernik’s legs wobbled and gave out one last time, just four steps away from the Round 3 ballroom, and the entrance door slammed shut in her face. As their sibling collapsed in defeat, her stepsisters cackled delightedly, and then clicked their fingers and vanished. Cindernik’s fairy godparents could only watch on sadly from afar. The lead fairy, Vagno, grumbled that their young charge never listened to their advice, and he should not have even bothered reading “Happily Ever Afters for Dummies” to try and help her. His sidekick, Papa Darren, reassured him that they could try again next year, when Cindernik’s stepsisters would hopefully be travelling abroad. With the jelly-legs spell finally broken, Cindernik dragged herself up out of the dirt and back home. She sighed sadly as she packed her beautiful blue ballgown away, but she knew there would be another Roland Garros ball, and her evil siblings would not stop her from attending this one, meeting a handsome trophy, and living happily ever after. The End . . . . Fairytale plagiarism aside, Fox Boy’s unexpected early loss was a tough pill to swallow. 😢 But, it takes nothing away from the objective fact that his dirt season has still been a resounding success. So, for now, it’s just an extra vacation week in the Maldives, and then back to the hunt for more happily-ever-afters on the grass and the cement. 💪 So, rest up, Fox Boy, and we’ll see you back on the green stuff soon - bring on the Wimby whites! 🤍💚💜 FORZA. 🦊🧡

@perelaa Pazzesco. Solidissimo.

impressionante la crescita di Mensik in questo torneo, indipendentemente dal risultato finale di stasera.

@eleonora_aloise In questo torneo mi ha proprio conquistato. Forza Jakub, fino alla fine!

Esistono i tennisti, gli ottimi tennisti e i fenomeni. A parte, ci sono quelli nati per giocare a tennis. Quasi mai vincono più di tutti, ma quando li vedi te ne accorgi. #tennis #mensik #rolandgarros

@bgtennisnation Cerundolo Bro (good guy, nothing against him) doesn't come after winning 5 masters 1000 in the last 3 months. I think that counts.

i’m absolutely stunned that Sin City 🌆 hasn’t found 2nd wind 💨 his kryptonite has gotten to him, Cerundolo Bro’s looks fit as a fiddle and stayed very relaxed 😎

@scambers73 Reputations stick? What reputations? He has won 5 masters 1000 in a row which no one had done before. Exhaustion is quite understandable.

A few thoughts about Jannik Sinner's defeat yesterday: - The heat clearly affects him (I know he said it wasn't an issue yesterday in press) - It has to be mental/psychological, as well as physical - He needs to get to the bottom of it asap because reputations stick

@angelomangiante Non gli si può dire niente. Quest'anno ha già dato tantissimo. Ora meritato riposo e poi pensiamo a Wimbledon.

✍️ Appunti di viaggio Premessa. Una sconfitta che non cambia di un centimetro il giudizio su Sinner. Fino al 6-3 6-2 5-1 aveva dominato Juan Manuel Cerundolo, n.56 al mondo. Poi il colpo di calore. Il caldo torrido. Un dannato match cominciato in un mezzogiorno di fuoco e proseguito tra accenni di crampi e sensazioni di vomito. In tanti si sono sentiti male finora a Parigi. È toccata anche a lui. Al più forte di tutti. Fisioterapista e spogliatoi per respirare. Una lotta per non crollare a terra. Provare a non mollare ma le gambe non rispondono. Il pubblico non lo aiuta, a parte poche eccezioni, ma nessuno si aspettava un aiuto da loro. Figuriamoci. "Sento di dover vomitare" dice alla squadra. Sull'orlo dello sfinimento, giocando quasi da fermo. Il mondo addosso. La caduta dell'uomo dei record, 6-1 al quinto set. Peccato, nel catino infuocato da una temperature torrida era ormai diventato un altro sport. Non era tennis. Sinner è stato commovente. Rimasto in campo soffrendo fino all'ultimo respiro. Dimostrando una capacità di sopportazione del dolore fisico quasi disumana. Abbiamo sofferto pure noi. Perché la proprietà transitiva non c'è solo quando alza trofei in tutto il mondo e siamo strafelici. Sei Masters 1000 vinti di fila. Trenta partite vinte consecutivamente dalla sconfitta con Mensik a Doha. È andata così. Annata strepitosa, annata in cui ha riscritto la storia del tennis.  Ora riposo, recupero fisico e nervoso. Una stagione bellissima ma massacrante per lui. Gestione del recupero adesso. Poi via a ricordare nel Tempio Sacro sull'erba chi comanda. A Wimbledon c'è da difendere il titolo e lo farà attaccando come sa fare. Una certezza. Parigi non cambia di una virgola nulla. Ci sarà tempo e modo per vincere il Roland Garros. Jannik rimane di gran lunga il n.1 al mondo. Per distacco il migliore di tutti. ✍️ Angelo

@eleonora_aloise Sì terribile

Mensik dopo 4:40h, non si sa come, vince un super-tie devastante coi crampi. Si butta per terra dal dolore, si tocca il petto e per interi minuti nessuno se lo fila. Poi con calma all’arbitro sorge un dubbio e chiama i medici. Una scena terrificante. #rolandgarros #tennis

@stanzaselvaggia Niente, ci cascano ogni volta.

Mi spiace comunicare a Repubblica che Alcaraz non ha mai scritto questa cosa. Era un post fake di TENNISCentel, che è una specie di Lercio del tennis.

@FeniceArde Confermo

mi confermate che non si può dormire se ci sono le ante o i cassetti aperti in camera da letto?

@eleonora_aloise Quanto tempo!

@Makanju92 Trip was worth it!

There he is 🤩🤩🤩 Ciao Darling Boy! 🥹🫶🏾

@Makanju92 Welcome darling!

Paired my first meal in Italy with a Jannik Sinner match win. Starting off this trip successfully. Ciao Roma, so good to (finally) meet you! ❤️🫶🏾

@eeajjo I hope he really sees these

Jannik Sinner Monte Carlo GF Recap: Yeah, sex is good, but have you ever watched Fox Boy win his first big dirt trophy in a hurricane, serving nothing but (f)aces? Mother Nature checked the semi results, saw the first Sincaraz match of the year, said, “LOL, what would make this 150x less enjoyable for everyone?” and then giggled and chowed down 3000 tonnes of baked beans for breakfast. 🫘💨 Whilst fox fans may have felt some nerves facing Bee Man on his best surface, when the carrot had already played six straight weeks, these disappeared when the camera panned to the Sinner box. Suddenly, champagne bottles were popping, and feet were kicked up on the couch - because Brother Mark was sitting front and centre. And, with a perfect 5/5 big finals attendance/win record since 2024, Fox Boy’s trophy win was sealed before he’d hit a ball. 🥳 Of course, the ginger still likes to keep his fans in a state of lingering doubt/panic, so even with big bro’s good ju-ju, got broken in his first service game. He then immediately broke back, because who even enjoys Sinnerball when it’s just a straightforward, mentally relaxing, annihilation, anyway? 🙅🏻‍♀️ Whilst Dorothy’s Kansas house circled above the court, Bee Man and Fox Boy spent the first set swapping gifts like it was Christmas morning, and they’d both asked Santa for tennis balls that were allergic to white lines. At the inevitable tiebreak, Darth Sinner said, “Hold my beer”, and produced the first serve he’d been hiding in his back pocket all match. Despite the ginger then clowning to miss a FH on set point that even his stepdog son could have made, Alcaraz sang, “Anything you can do, I can do better!”, and double faulted to gift his boycrush the set. However, the carrot felt guilty, and prepared an early ̶l̶o̶v̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶ ̶ break in the second set to return the favour. He went down 3-1, and his alter egos were busily fighting over who got to stay home and keep watching F1 replays. Clutchnnik drew the short straw, and so showed up on court, grudgingly converted 2 / 294857163 break points, won the next five games in a row, and claimed his first big mud title. 💪 Unfortunately, the match stats were so bad that tennis data analysts were forced to sign an NDA by the Sincaraz teams. After all, with both players holding multimillion-dollar sponsorships contingent on them appearing to know how to hold a tennis racquet, it was crucial these shot quality metrics never saw the light of day… Post-match, some Tennis Twitter fans were bitterly disappointed that organisers rolled out a trophy ceremony stage, instead of a boxing ring for the two opponents to follow in their tennis ancestors’ footsteps and brawl. Honestly, I agree with the critics - this rivalry could definitely do with being a little more…. heated. 🔥 However, the journalists were less shocked by the lack of punches being thrown, and more by both the Italian anthem being played in victory, AND that the Austrian carrot apparently even knew the words to sing along. 🤯 Fox Boy also confirmed that whilst he will happily dive into an F1 car and go 600km/hr, or happily dive off a vertical iceblock with wooden planks on his feet, he draws the line at happily diving off… an actual diving board? 😂 Jannik, it is becoming increasingly difficult to roast you in these recaps, when I am simultaneously awestruck at what you are still achieving time and time again…………but don’t worry, I’ll keep trying my best. 😉 Congratulations, Fox Boy - we knew what this one meant to you, even before you crouched down, and we cried tears of ̶l̶i̶n̶g̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶R̶G̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶u̶m̶a̶ ̶ joy on your behalf. 🥹 Finally, enjoy some brief time off, and use it wisely. Namely, to ̶ ̶p̶a̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶s̶t̶a̶b̶l̶i̶s̶h̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶m̶a̶f̶i̶a̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶o̶n̶g̶-̶h̶a̶i̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶G̶e̶r̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶p̶p̶o̶s̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶e̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶P̶a̶r̶i̶s̶ just lie on a beach and relax. 🏖️ 😎 FORZA. 🦊🧡