Or are we dancer.

Full transparency: I am not an ATP expert. I was once, over 10 years ago, but locking into the WTA was a full-time 24-7 job. I had little bandwidth for much else.

So. I am not going to sit here and pretend that, at this very moment, I have the bona fides to proffer a meaningful series of thoughts on the Wimbledon men's final between No.1 Jannik Sinner and No.2 Carlos Alcaraz. I could certainly pretend and perform a seemingly intelligent preview, but...I don't think that would be very interesting to anyone.

What do I know. I will work to get my base knowledge up to speed, but I'm just being honest here!

So, in true ATP Outsider fashion, all I have are broken notes and a few questions that I hope get answered in a few hours when these two very nice boys (I do know for a fact that they are very nice people!) play this very big final, which we all hope is 10% as entertaining as what we saw five weeks ago in Paris.

• According to Tennis Channel's betting partner, Carlos is a 51% favorite. According to IBM, Jannik is a 53% favorite. I dislike both of these things – betting and nonsense predictors – so whatever!
• I have read the ATP website. I learned that Carlos leads the head-to-head 8-4 and HOLY CRAP WAIT...he's won their last FIVE meetings? That's wild!
• OH DAAAAAAAMN, Carlos hasn't lost at Wimbledon since....JANNIK?!? Haha that's amazing. In their only grass-court meeting, Jannik beat him in four sets in the fourth round in 2022. Carlos has run the table here since. But hmmmm....
• It is wild to me that Iga is older than both these two. That's wacky!
• Carlos and Jannik have won the last six majors and seven of the last eight. The gap is so real.
• I was tempted to oversimplify this and say Jannik owns the hard courts and Carlos owns the natural surfaces but upon fact-checking my hypothesis it turns out Jannik has beaten Carlos on all three surfaces and five of Carlos' eight wins came on a hard court. So there goes that!
• Does a hot worn down grass court play like a hard court or a clay court? Well if you were to gauge it off Iga's title run...both!

• Darren Cahill said that after Jannik's insane 4-6, 6-7(4), 6-4, 7-6(3) 7-6(2) loss to Carlos last month in the RG final – a match that saw Jannik hold three championship points – Jannik took the whole bowl of candy from the transport desk. I love that. I think that's a darn good sign that dude was able to process it all and not be too in his feelings. I think that bodes well for him today!
• Spencer has a point and the replies are very funny:

• Whoa, Carlos is on a 24-match win streak? And has won 33 of his last 34 matches? God bless this rollercoaster of a career.
• My gut says Jannik is winning today. But then I saw on Tennis Channel that Jim and Brett were also picking Jannik and Lindsay was picking Carlos. In this house we stan Lindsay so....Vamos, Carl!