#nothingrivalries

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fritzcaraz + the doomed one-sided rivalry (inspired in part by a de sinnaur webweave by @everysunsofthebes !)

youth and age, kahlil gibran | us open final, 2024 | circe, madeleine miller (wimbledon semifinals, 2025) | "what went wrong?" post-match press conference, wimbledon semifinal, 2025 | post-match press conference, atp finals 2025 | us open, 2025 / us open, 2022 | if a wilderness, carl phillips (tokyo, 2025 / us open, 2024) | post-match press conference, atp finals 2025 | "the inexorable rise of taylor fritz", esquire | laver cup, 2025 | the song of achilles, madeleine miller (indian wells, 2022 + year end no 1 ceremony, 2025)

extra extra special thanks to user @strawberry-and-dreams for help in compiling quotes for this!

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this is so yuri.........

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its all very serious to me.

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Jessica Pegula and Elena Rybakina shake hands after their quarterfinal match at the 2026 Miami Open (Rybakina def. Pegula 2-6, 6-3, 6-4) | © Larry Marano

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Aryna Sabalenka and Zheng Qinwen shake hands at the net after their match at the 2026 Miami Open

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ofc sincaraz is interesting but i find the idea of being friendly with someone who you always beat/who always beats you and you can’t be mad at them if they beat you/you cant think about your friendship when you beat them so so deeply compelling. and the gap begins to think about closing inch by inch and they bring something different this time around so you have to change something and they play harder so you have to. and the momentum swings differently sometimes and suddenly you’re both different than the last time you faced each other. so you’re thinking to yourself what could happen if i win against you what could happen if i lose to you. because it’s not out of the realm of possibility. what in a way becomes forcing the possible out of the impossibility and vice versa.

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nothingrivalries are like ough youre everything god i fucking hate you i crave you i never want to see you again

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like WHAT IF i had something with you and everyone thought it would always be like this even though you beat me again and again and then some other player from your past reasserted themselves and did what i couldn’t and now you both are actual rivals. meanwhile that person has now made me their target and they beat me and stop me from meeting you again. and what if i have beaten you before but it doesn’t carry weight now because you’re so different now and i haven’t changed. and what if i’ve beaten your rival before too but that doesn’t matter either because all everyone wants to look at is what you do even though that used to be me competing with you. but no one seems to remember that. HAPPENED TO MY FRIENDS TAYLOR FRITZ AND JESS PEGULA!!!!!!