Jannik Sinner vs Arthur Fils - Preview & Prediction - 2026 ATP Madrid Open Semi Final

Hey guys and welcome back to the channel, we have Yannick Sinner vs Arthur Feast for the semi-finals of the Madrid Open Masters really looking forward to touching on this one

I think it's going to be an explosive matchup and let me know in the comments section below who you think is going to win and

Why before you do get into my D-tub analysis and

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So we've got Yannick Sinner the world number one currently versus Arthur Feast who a lot of people have been coining as

Potentially being the one to finally challenge Carlos or Yannick at the slams and not necessarily just by beating one but actually

being

A contender for winning grand slams himself moving forward and let's take no that jock which out the equation because

He of course has won a whole host of slams and we're talking about up and coming players coming through

Let's first we'll touch on Yannick's run for semi-finals

So he beat Bonzi and three sets a Bonzi the only place take a set of Yannick so far on this tournament

Then he beat Moller then nori both in straight sets and then Raphael Haudah who is another very

Exciting young prospect from Spain

It's an incredibly big ball

But he eventually lost that one to 10 a six to seven six

Father Feast

well

He has carried on his very impressive Masters 1000 form he made the courts finals of Indian Wells semi-finals in Miami

And now here he will at least have made the semi-finals in Madrid

One in three sets in his first match as well against Busse and then beat Narva and etchia very both in straight sets

And then lehetsch and straight sets are called revenge for that semi-final loss of lehetsch got in Miami

In terms of this match up well, they only played the one time before and Yannick won that one in 2023

It was in Montpellier in France, but it was an indoor hardcore tournament

It was a semi-final as well, and he won that one seven five six two

Very different circumstances and conditions and almost three years ago now

What I will say for Arthur is that

For Arthur Feast even

He is

And has the best opportunity to be Yannick on clay

If we're talking about surface specificity

On graph I think you'd find it very tough with Yannick and on hardcore I think Yannick holds a very distinct advantage on hardcore as well

Now on clay

Yes, they're in Madrid, so it's not going to be

The classic very slow clay course that you might see or clay court tennis that you'd see an environment that you'd see at Roland Garros or Rome

because of that

added

Or higher altitude that you get in Madrid the walls do tend to fly through more so you do get a bit more

Purchase for hitting them all bigger for being more aggressive. It does reward players who are brave

But at the same time it is still a clay court. So as soon as the wall grips into that clay

It's still a lot more conducive to players who play with a lot of topspin and it's harder to hit through the court

Then it would be on another surface because of the slowness of clay and how the wall grips in the surface

So angles end up being super important

And feasts plays with more topspin than anyone else in the top 10 on his forehand wing

from

What stats have been showing

So that's really impressive for one and for two

I think there has been a marked improvement on his backhand

quality and shot tolerance generally

Since his comeback in injury

I also think his general level has just been higher

And for whatever reason maybe he was working on things in the offseason. I think he was

The serve is solid. It's yeah, I still not a real

I would say weapon as such

But he's doing very well behind it. He's very explosive behind that serve on the plus one

with especially with the forehand

And now only continue on clay as he tries to hunt forehands

On a surface which re-reward plays who are able to

have

impressive and efficient

Footwork in that ad corner

So how does feasts

Get the win hall how does synagogue the win well

I think

We can talk about server turn first so I think he needs to have a good serving day. I think it's gonna be aggressive fees

but he needs to also

Try and get Yannick off balance

Now what that's going to mean is playing very aggressively especially with the forehand

But I think he needs to dip into creative to the drop shot

Even with some net play times. I know he hasn't been come to net as much on clay because of the surface

but I do think

There is a time and place to

start making the court look smaller

And that most likely will be when he's able to drag sinner out

He does leave himself susceptible to getting passed or lobbed

So he needs to choose the right opportunities when to come in in my opinion

The drop shot again

Needs to be the right opportunity when to play that

And he needs to get himself into position the rallies where he's on the front foot where he feels comfortable enough to hit

That drop shot knowing that he's got a bit of safety because either Yannick has been pushed back or pushed out wide

Quite extremely that even if he is to the ball it means an easy put away for Yannick

The back and the back and Yannick is going to dominate despite fees his improvements on that wing

so

What fees is going to have to do is try and go total in the sense that he's going to have to try to

Stay solid in that corner. It'll be a very good test for him

The issue he's going to have is that he likes to hit again with a lot of spin on the backhand wing

And sometimes he finds these really good angles but if the angles are a little bit off

Then Yannick as we know has an incredible backhand line. They's able to hit outside of the tram lines

And it's money. It really is money every time

So if I was to be looking into concentrating more on actually dominating the forehand forehand with Yannick

There's been

Analysis done that shows that Yannick's most

Or let's just say he's

least fruitful matchup

Against opponents is that forehand to forehand cross-coach change

so

That's something that Le Hedgesh needs to go hard into

Hope that this in a forehand breaks down a little bit as well

and

If that does happen then he puts himself in the best possible chance to get the win

Whether he will or not. I guess remains to be seen

In terms of a prediction. I'm finding it tough to go away from Yannick

So I'm going to pick Yannick in three sets. I think Feast will run him close

I wouldn't be surprised too much if Feast were to win. So let's see how this one goes

Let me in the comment section below. Thanks very much guys. Stay safe from what we'll see you next video