As soon as the draw for a Grand Slam tournament is over, the tennis augurs immediately speak up. Even before the first rally, they try to predict which pro is likely to make it into the last eight. Many of these fortune tellers with more or less expertise make things easy for themselves, they assume that those who are seeded in the first eight positions of the field will also play the semi-finals among themselves.
On the other hand, if you want to stand out from the crowd or provoke a little, you dare to look out a different window. Just like the proven expert from the American “Tennis Magazine”: While everyone seems to be betting on an upcoming US Open quarterfinals between the defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and his permanent rival Jannik Sinner, who have already fought many a high-class battle, the long-time tournament observer is betting to another one from this part of the drawn tableau: to Alexander Zverev.
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