{"id":90056,"date":"2025-09-02T01:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=90056"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:40:25","slug":"like-an-ai-generated-player-alexander-bubliks-blunt-take-on-jannik-sinner-at-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/09\/02\/like-an-ai-generated-player-alexander-bubliks-blunt-take-on-jannik-sinner-at-the-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Like an AI-Generated Player\u2019: Alexander Bublik\u2019s Blunt Take on Jannik Sinner at the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world #1 on the ATP Tour, Jannik Sinner, served up Italian breadsticks in his round of 16 match against Alexander Bublik on Monday at the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner won 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 in just an hour and 23 minutes, looking unbeatable against an opponent who was in his first-ever US Open round of 16 and had put together one of the best weeks of his career and hadn&#8217;t had his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1962660281496318061\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">serve broken<\/a> for 55 consecutive service games prior to the match.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jannik Sinner vs. Alexander Bublik Highlights | 2025 US Open Round 4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m2iCKjuZu1I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the post-match handshake, Bublik <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tennis\/comments\/1n6636n\/bublik_to_sinner_after_their_match_youre_so_good\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Sinner<\/a>, &#8220;You&#8217;re so good, this is insane, I&#8217;m not bad, like what the f**k.&#8221; Bublik also told the media before the match <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espn\/status\/1962674918086045880\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that Sinner is &#8220;like an AI-generated player.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Known for his honesty, Bublik actually has a better record against Sinner than most players on the ATP Tour, having defeated him twice on grass in Halle this year. His 2-5 record against Sinner is respectable, given that the 24-year-old Italian has not lost before the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam since the 2023 US Open.<\/p>\n<h3>Sinner&#8217;s Dominance Since 2024<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/08\/21\/can-anyone-stop-sinner-at-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Sinner\u2019s dominance<\/a> is undeniable: four Grand Slam titles over the last two seasons, a place in every Grand Slam final this year, and only five defeats in 2025 (most to rival Carlos Alcaraz). He has won nearly 90% of his matches since 2024, a <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/tennis\/us-open-2025-jannik-sinner-equals-roger-federer-hardcourt-record-10218336\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">machine-like performance<\/a> that rivals the peaks of Federer, Djokovic, and Nadal.<\/p>\n<p>What sets Sinner apart is his baseline power, pinpoint accuracy, complete court coverage, mental composure, and elite return game. On court, facing him feel more like an anime or video game boss than a human opponent, leaving even seasoned players like Bublik stunned. He creates a sense of fear in the opposition the moment he steps on court and begins warming up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2233263711\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/2233263711?et=4gP6NrcnQ9dhOm6YrmfXtA&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=W4_40qZdkg8oYsK2OKeU3YXBQ40NeuDVDOdXJ_BkuSw=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Next up for Sinner is a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/09\/01\/jannik-sinner-faces-lorenzo-musetti-in-historic-us-open-all-italian-quarterfinal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">clash with fellow Italian Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>, who is seeking his third career Grand Slam semifinal. Musetti will need to hope that Sinner\u2019s seemingly AI-like game has a rare glitch if he hopes to engineer a monumental upset.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Imago Images LARRYxMARANO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world #1 on the ATP Tour, Jannik Sinner, served up Italian breadsticks in his round of 16 match against Alexander Bublik on Monday at the 2025 US Open. Sinner won 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 in just an hour and 23 minutes, looking unbeatable against an opponent who was in his first-ever US Open round of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1442,"featured_media":90057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9,8],"tags":[42770,510,259,258,5862,43],"class_list":["post-90056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-atp","category-news","category-us-open","tag-2025-us-open","tag-alexander-bublik","tag-atp-tour","tag-italian-tennis","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-us-open"],"modified_by":"Steen Kirby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90059,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90056\/revisions\/90059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}