Paolo Bertolucci and the final of Roland Garros 2025. The former blue tennis player commented on the epic game, which lasted over five and a half hours, between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz In the last act of the Parisian slam, won by the Spaniard, in the comeback, to the super tie break of the fifth set. In addition to praising the extraordinary level of tennis shown by the first two players in the ATP ranking, we wanted to focus on a previously highlighted aspect and launch, at the same time, one direct arrow ‘most likely, and Novak Djokovic.
I forgot: over 5 hours without toilet break and mto! Wow then you can play a game without using actions of only ailments.
– Paolo Bertolucci (@paolobertolucci) June 9, 2025
“I forgot: Over 5 hours without toilet break and MTO (Medical Time Out, editor’s note)! Woh Then you can play a game without using actions of only ailments“, Bertolucci wrote on his own account X. Sinner and Alcaraz, actually, continued to play uninterruptedly without going even once in the bathroom or requesting the assistance of the physiotherapist in the physically more difficult moments of the match. The exception was when, in Alcaraz, a little land entered in an eye and was rescued by his team, with the day that was resumed without problems after a few minutes.
13 minutes between the end of the second set and the beginning of the third set in a seed of a 1000! I have no words. They are ridiculing a sport that has always been indicated as one of those to be taken for example.
– Paolo Bertolucci (@paolobertolucci) November 5, 2023
Bertolucci, however, in addition to focusing on the correctness of the two tennis players, wanted to highlight the difference with respect to the behavior of other players of the circuit, which oftenthey use these breaks to break the opponent’s rhythm and finish. And the reference, in all probability, is in Novak Djokovic. Yes why Bertolucci, in November of 2023he had lashed, always on X, against the Serbian champion, I reo that he had ‘stopped’ the Paris-Burcy semifinal against Andrey Rublev for 13 minutes first to go to the bathroom and then with a Medical Time Out. “13 minutes between the end of the second set and the beginning of the third Set in a semifinal of a 1000! I am speechless. They are ridiculing a sport Always indicated as one of those to be taken for example “, the former tennis player wrote, who, however, praises, for opposite reasons, Sinner and Alcaraz.