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“I trust her more, I trust her body more in these matches and these tournaments. She's 20 and this season against everyone that isn't Sabalenka, Goff, Swiatek and Rybakina. She is not taking bad losses at all, you know, and she's healthy, she's played a full schedule, but she's also, to David's point about Sabalenka, I think, playing a smart schedule. She's pulling out of events, you know, looking through the season.”

“I think maybe the more significant point is they feel more like the Sinner Alcaraz. Rather than worrying about who's number one, who's number two, they feel different to everybody else right now. I think that they should be going into probably, and certainly the next Grand Slam as the favorites really, because it's Clay, and I was looking at Rybakina's Roland Garros record, hasn't been that great.”

“I trust her more, I trust her body more in these matches and these tournaments. She's 20 and this season against everyone that isn't Sabalenka, Goff, Swiatek and Rybakina. She is not taking bad losses at all, you know, and she's healthy, she's played a full schedule, but she's also, to David's point about Sabalenka, I think, playing a smart schedule. She's pulling out of events, you know, looking through the season.”

“And on clay, I do think the indoor clay is a good surface for a little bit of time on the ball and so dominant on both serve and return. This time she just resorted back to the brilliant form that she'd been in all season. I think Andreeva and Muchova were not quite either of them at their sort of physical best in the semifinal or final, they both perhaps faded a little bit, but Rybakina was just awesome.”

“Returning to number one in the race, David is an interesting one for Rybakina, isn't it? Because absolutely nobody is arguing with Irina Sabalenka being the world number one, the best tennis player in the world. And yet, with quite a large sample size now, coming up to four months, Elena Rybakina has been the best player in the world in 2026, and I think somehow those two things are both true.”

“I think maybe the more significant point is they feel more like the Sinner Alcaraz. Rather than worrying about who's number one, who's number two, they feel different to everybody else right now. I think that they should be going into probably, and certainly the next Grand Slam as the favorites really, because it's Clay, and I was looking at Rybakina's Roland Garros record, hasn't been that great.”

“And on clay, I do think the indoor clay is a good surface for a little bit of time on the ball and so dominant on both serve and return. This time she just resorted back to the brilliant form that she'd been in all season. I think Andreeva and Muchova were not quite either of them at their sort of physical best in the semifinal or final, they both perhaps faded a little bit, but Rybakina was just awesome.”

“She'd lost six times in a row to Goff. And she'd actually lost three times in a row to Svitolina. So to flip those head to heads around in consecutive matches, I agree with you, this does feel like a real step for Muchova. Her forehand picked up where it left off against Mertens in the round before and was absolutely brilliant coming up with so many angles, such pace on it as well.”

“Returning to number one in the race, David is an interesting one for Rybakina, isn't it? Because absolutely nobody is arguing with Irina Sabalenka being the world number one, the best tennis player in the world. And yet, with quite a large sample size now, coming up to four months, Elena Rybakina has been the best player in the world in 2026, and I think somehow those two things are both true.”

“She'd lost six times in a row to Goff. And she'd actually lost three times in a row to Svitolina. So to flip those head to heads around in consecutive matches, I agree with you, this does feel like a real step for Muchova. Her forehand picked up where it left off against Mertens in the round before and was absolutely brilliant coming up with so many angles, such pace on it as well.”