So it’s first-seed Jannik Sinner going up towards second-seed Carlos Alcaraz for the Wimbledon males’s singles title in a dream confrontation that has been anticipated for the reason that match began two weeks in the past.
And I used to be eager about the final time the groups with the 2 greatest information confronted off within the Stanley Cup Remaining, and do you may have any concept when that was?
It was, in actual fact, 36 years in the past when first-seed Calgary defeated second-seed Montreal in 1989 in six video games. Beginning that season, the crew with the NHL’s greatest regular-season file has made the Cup Remaining simply 10 instances, whereas the runner-up membership superior that far simply 5 instances over the previous 36 tournaments.
Certainly, the groups with the 2 greatest information reached the Cup semifinals (or convention last) the identical time in simply six of those previous 36 tournaments. This can be partly happenstance — upsets do occur, as Coco Gauff, ousted in Wimbledon’s first spherical, can attest — however this will also be attributed to the NHL’s playoff bracket format that was adopted for the 2014 playoffs.
