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   ma meillure ennemie by cowboyfuckingbebop

   Fandoms: Tennis RPF  

   • Mature
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   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   08 May 2026

   Tags

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   • Carlos Alcaraz/Jannik Sinner
   • Carlos Alcaraz
   • Jannik Sinner
   • Minor Characters
   • Slow Burn
   • Rivalry
   • yk that tweet about rivalries that last longer than 7 years
   • I would tag each tournament I mention but that's All of Them
   • Tennis
   • like lots of actual tennis its a beautiful sport
   • POV Jannik Sinner
   • POV Carlos Alcaraz
   • Sexual Tension
   • Eventual Smut
   • the inherent eroticism of meeting someone who can match your specific and intense freak
   • Mutual Pining
   • Repression
   • rivals to neither friends nor lovers but a third more emotionally fraught thing

   Summary

   This is what a rivalry is: standing at the end of the tunnel after yet another battle, bodies as still as rubber bands pulled taut. The scent of sweat and the ache of short-term memory converting small talk into the heaviest words in the world. Impossibly normal conversations with impossibly simple ends.

   or: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner's relationship developing across each of their matchups (from the 2021 Paris Masters to the 2025 US Open final), as told from the perspective of the loser of each match.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   63,259

   Chapters:

   12/18

   Comments:

   107

   Kudos:

   159

   Bookmarks:

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