Best match ever? Easy.
Lil Ko stomping Yapp 11-0.
Most replayed match for me. Pure perfection.
As for back and forth competitive contest, this doesn't even make the top 5 for me. Capito plays way too slow for it to be fully enjoyable, and FSR was not FSR-ing the entire match, but he still won. I'd be curious to know what both of their TPA or Fargorate for that match was.
I honestly don’t remember being as tense as a fan through a whole match as this one. Especially toward the end.
The shot clock kept Robbie’s slow pace from being an issue for me. In the end it was part of the problem for him. The beeps were constantly going off when he went down to shoot. And he made some critical mental errors. I hardly recall hearing beeps with FSR, even in the last three racks.
In any case, I agree that it wasn’t the best back and forth competitive match I’ve ever seen. But it was the fist hill-hill U.S. Open in some 30-plus years, great crowd, on ESPN.
I’d be curious to know a few of your favorite matches. One of mine was Alcaide-Raga. Raga missed the 6 in the side on a dramatic shot, up 12-11, to swing the momentum to Alcaide. Capito’s carom-miss on the … the 6 ball again, I’ll always remember.
