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Avinash Shenoy's avatar

I had to immediately go back and watch the highlights of the match again after reading this. So vivid and brilliant writing as usual!

Rakhi Kurup's avatar

❤️❤️❤️ such lovely writing as always Sarthak. As you rightly said, we have some very intense years of Tennis ahead of us. I am so glad to have a new favourite after Rafa and an extremely eligible candidate at that.

Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you so much, Rakhi! ❤️

Sanyam Jain's avatar

Oh Sarthak accidently bumped on your substack a month back and can now say the way you catch emotions is second to none, Too Good

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Thank you so much, Sanyam!

Anish Ramachandran's avatar

How brilliant was this! I was just lost in the beauty of the words. I can only marvel at some so gifted as a writer.

Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you so much for the kind words, Anish :)

le flaneur's avatar

What a fitting piece for that awesome finale! Relived the match through your writing, Sarthak!

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Thank you so much for reading!

Pratyush Sinha's avatar

Brillianto. Bravo Bravo.

Sarthak Dev's avatar

Thank you so. much!

Abhishek Shetty's avatar

This was fab Sarthak. You made me relive that match. Also love the context you gave for their rivalry and the references to past rivalries. I will revisit this piece when I want to revisit that awesome match in the future. Thanks for this!

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Thank you so much, Abhishek!

Hitesh's avatar

Great sport evokes great writing. And this one did justice to the ebbs and flows of the match and this budding rivalry. Kudos Sarthak

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Thank you so much, Hitesh!

Binu Sivan's avatar

It was something! I just could not watch the whole match- too damn intense. And lovely post about it. ❤️

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Thank you so much, Binu! What a game!

Ila Reddy's avatar

Beaut essay! You make me nostalgic about a match I didn’t even watch but wish I had.

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Thank you so much, Ila! ❤️

Rohan Banerjee's avatar

Uff. Reading this piece felt like watching bits of that final again, which, frankly, is the highest praise possible.

Sarthak Dev's avatar

Too kind, Rohan! What a game lol. Yet to truly recover from it xD