#AO2025 SF reaction & analysis & Final prediction 

First, for the Final prediction, I think that Sinner will win in 4 or so, at this point he’s just better & more importantly more clutch. To me the only way that I see Zverev winning is if he makes it very physical & drags it out, Sinner isn’t nearly as good the longer it goes on, in fact he is 0-6 in matches that are 4 hours or more.

Also I personally want Zverev to win this AO for 2 reasons, 1. He is BY FAR the best & most accomplished men’s player to never win a slam, there is no other slamless player remotely close to him in resume. 2. As an Alcaraz fan, I don’t want Sinner to be almost caught up to him with his 3rd slam.

Now for the Novak-Zverev SF:
I’m not going to lie, I was really pissed when I saw that Novak retired. I actually fell asleep in middle of the first set (I was up most of the night before for the women’s SFs) & woke up a bit after midnight eastern time & saw notifications about Novak retiring & I went to X & saw that he retired after losing the TB in the first set.

Basically the question is would he have retired if he won the TB? I don’t think so, but I don’t really know. 

He probably realized that in order to win he’d have to win 3 out of 4 in at least 3 hours PLUS face Sinner in the final, it just wasn’t going to be feasible.
Also he already won this tournament 10 times, it wasn’t like at the Olympics where it was the ONE thing missing in his INSANE resume, also he had just 1 TOP level opponent in Carlos Alcaraz in a BO3 vs first beating Alcaraz, then Zverev, only to face Sinner in the final, this would be a tall task for “peak Novak”, let alone 37 year old Novak who “Father Time” is seemingly catching up to him after being denied for so long. (Basically what I am saying is that if this was 2023 & he was facing unseeded Tommy Paul instead of Zverev & then have to face Tsitsipas or Karen Khachanov in the final, I think he tries to stick it out more).

So the bit I saw of the boos were more like “come on, I paid & came to watch a long match, don’t retire now bc you lost the TB”. It’s like when they are cheering for a player who wins a set down 2-0 because they want another set etc.