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Novak Djokovic has become only the second men’s player to reach 100 match wins at Wimbledon, but how does his record compare to his two great rivals Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at the four respective Grand Slams?

The 24-time Grand Slam winner is only the second male after Federer (105) to record a century a victories at Wimbledon, although both are behind the great Martina Navratilova in terms of most-ever wins at the All England Club for both men and women as the nine-time champion has 120 wins.

For Djokovic, though, it is yet another milestone on his impressive list of achievements with win No 100 coming with a straight-set win over Miomir Kecmanovic in the third round at this year’s grass-court Grand Slam.

“That sounds very nice. I am very grateful and privileged to be in this position. Tennis made me who I am and has given me incredible things in life. I never take anything for granted, especially at this age,” the Serbian said.

“I am still pushing myself to the limits and getting some splits and slides on the court. Wimbledon is a dream tournament of so many of us players. Any history here is a blessing.”

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Interestingly, although Djokovic is the only player to have 90 or more match wins at all the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, he doesn’t have the outright record in any of the majors.

Not yet anyway.

Djokovic v Nadal v Federer at the Grand Slams

Australian Open

Although Djokovic holds the record for most titles as he has won the season-opening Grand Slam 10 times, he is actually second on the list for most match wins.

Federer won only six trophies at Melbourne Park, but he won a record 102 match wins before retiring in 2022.

Djokovic, though, looks set to surpass that milestone as the Serbian currently sits on 99 while two-time champion Nadal had 77 wins Down Under.

French Open

With 14 titles at Roland Garros, Nadal was always going to be No 1 with match wins in Paris as he has a record 112 victories with only four (4) defeats in 19 main draw appearances.

But Djokovic has also reached the 100-win milestone as he achieved it during the 2025 edition of the clay-court Grand Slam as he moved to 101.

Federer is a distant third with 73 wins.

Wimbledon

Federer won eight Wimbledon trophies and he recorded his 100th win in 2019, but won only another five matches at SW19 before retiring.

The Swiss’s record is in danger of being broken by Djokovic, but the good news for Federer is it won’t be this year as the Serbian can only move up to 104 if he wins the title.

The grass-court major is Nadal’s worst in terms of the Slams as he won 58 matches at Wimbledon, having made only 15 main draw appearances.

US Open

First things first, Jimmy Connors has the record for most victories at the US Open as he won 98 matches.

Djokovic, though, sits second with 90 and he could potentially move to 97 this year, but then he would have to win the tournament.

Five-time US Open champion Federer retired with 89 while Nadal – a four-time champion in New York – notched up 67 wins during his career.

Overall record

Djokovic might not hold the record for the individual tournaments, but he has the record for total Grand Slam wins as he sits on 390 and counting, ahead of Federer (369) and Nadal (314).

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The director of Wimbledon has responded after the likes of Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu criticised the decision to switch to electric line-calling.

An iconic aspect of Wimbledon was removed for this year’s tournament as line judges were replaced by an electronic system but players have argued it is not 100% accurate.

World No. 4 Draper was one of the first to criticise the move to the electronic system.

“I don’t think it’s 100% accurate in all honesty,” he said in his post-match press conference after his loss to Marin Cilic. “A couple of the ones today, it showed a mark on the court. There’s no way the chalk would have showed that. I guess it cannot be 100% accurate – it’s millimetres.”

His fellow Briton Emma Raducanu also criticised the move, again raising the subject of the system’s accuracy.

“That call was for sure out,” Raducanu said. “It’s kind of disappointing, the tournament here, that the calls can be so wrong, but for the most part, they’ve been okay.

“It’s just, like, I’ve had a few in my other matches, too, that have been very wrong. So yeah, I don’t know. Hopefully, they can kind of fix that.”

However, Wimbledon tournament director Jamie Baker insists that the use of electronic systems is universal across the tour and that the accuracy was acceptable.

“The concept of live line calling is absolutely standard across the Tour now – mandatory across the ATP Tour,” he said, as per the Metro.

“Two of the other Grand Slams have had it for four or five years. What that has meant is that the level of sophistication and certification around the system has become more professional and more robust as time has gone on.

“The accuracy and the reliability and the robustness of the system and the process as a whole, in terms of officiating, is in as good a place as it has been.”

Baker also said that the speed of the game meant that tennis was getting close to the “threshold” of being able to have human line judges.

“It doesn’t work if nobody can call the lines, but we hadn’t reached that threshold. But it was getting close. And so, again, that’s us managing the risk.

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“One thing I will say with the way that the technology has moved on, but also the number of cameras on each court, is that we’re actually able to play a lot later than we had done in the past with the challenge system.

“Sometimes the players didn’t like that, sometimes they did. But actually, we have a lot more time now that we can push matches out. But last night, it was getting close, but we hadn’t quite reached that.

“It was more of a rounded decision where at some point, it’s a top-level sport, playing at very high speeds, to be playing when it was that dark, the officials just didn’t feel comfortable with it.”

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Jannik Sinner remains on course to break a 47-year-old Grand Slam record after easing past Pedro Martínez at Wimbledon.

The N0. 1 seed strolled to a  6-1, 6-3, 6-1 victory against Martínez who appeared to be struggling with a shoulder injury during the third-round match-up.

Sinner though has been at his dominant best so far in the tournament, dropping just 17 games in his three matches, and he could well break the record for the fewest games lost in a title-winning run.

The current holder of that record is Bjorn Borg who lost just 32 games during his 1978 French Open win.

As it stands, Sinner can lose 15 more games in a possible four remaining matches to match the feat of the Swede. On average, B0rg dropped 4.57 games per match while Sinner is currently losing 5.66 per match.

Sinner has also surpassed Roger Federer in terms of the fewest games conceded on route to the round of 16. Federer previously held the record for the 19 he lost in 2004 but Sinner has cleared that with two to spare.

That stat was put to Sinner who was happy to be compared to the Swiss great.

“I watched, of course, matches of him and the classics, the all-time classics.

“The tennis was for sure a little bit different in a way of more serve and volleys back in the days. The grass was different.

“But yeah, obviously I enjoyed it so much, watching Roger play. I never played against him in an official match. But in the other way, how they played, it was amazing. But yeah, tennis has changed a little bit, that’s for sure.

“Yeah, about the games lost, this is whatever. I’m not looking on these kind of records. I know that everything can change very quickly from one round to the other. Yeah, but again, I’m very happy to be in the next round.

The 23-year-old also said his first week in SW19 “could not have gone better”

“Very happy with the win but we saw that Martinez was struggling. When you don’t serve well on this surface it is hard,” he said. “Huge respect to him to come out here and compete.”

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“Every time you enter a Grand Slam in the first week it is special, even more so at Wimbledon. We are trying to keep pushing but this week could not have gone better for me.”

“I feel like I haven’t won anything compared to all of the people in there [the Royal Bos]! It is a huge honour to play in front of you all. It is nice to see new faces from other sports.”

Sinner will face the winner of Grigor Dimitrov or Sebastian Ofner in the fourth round.

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Carlos Alcaraz said he found Nick Kyrgios’ comments “funny” after the Australian suggested the Spaniard “might party too much” and backed Jannik Sinner to win more titles.

Sinner and Alcaraz look to set to dominate the men’s game for the coming years given their superiority over the rest of the field but both players will be eager to win as much as possible during their career.

Having already won a combined eight slams, Kyrgios was contemplating who would finish with more come the end of their careers and he plumped for the Italian.

“Who do you think’s gonna have a better career, Alcaraz or Sinner?” Kyrgios asked on the Ultimate Tennis Showdown. “I’ll tell you mine first. I’ll say Sinner, because Alcaraz likes girls.

“He might get distracted, he might party too much. That’s my only thing, whereas Sinner will stay a bit locked in, I think.”

Alcaraz though took no offence but suggested it may be a little hypocritical given who the statement was coming from.

“They’re funny comments, which coming from him, don’t surprise me,” the 22-year-old Alcaraz said. “It’s no secret that Jannik always has fewer ups and downs than me. It’s something I’ve been working on. It has nothing to do with the nightlife world.”

Kyrgios himself has not been an example of a model pro throughout his career and was most recently in the headlines afetr criticising the BBC for not picking him for their Wimbledon punditry team.

“It’s unfortunate but it’s probably their loss more than mine,” he told The Guardian. “I understand they’ve got Chris Eubanks but he hasn’t beaten the greatest of all time multiple times.

“When someone’s beaten Federer, Nadal, Murray and Djokovic and has incredible insights, it’s very strange you wouldn’t want that person adding knowledge to tennis fans.”

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Alcaraz meanwhile is focusing on trying to win his third consecutive Wimbledon title. The Spaniard is incredible form, winning his last 21 matches, and said he was playing “really good tennis lately.”

“It wasn’t the best tennis the whole 21 matches that I’ve won. But I think I maintain myself really, really calm in the tough moments in those 21 matches that I won in a row.

“But yeah, I think I play a really good tennis lately. Really high confident right now. But yeah, as I say many, many times, I think when you approach the matches, I’m doing it in a really great way, that I’m really happy about. And during those matches I’ve saved really difficult moments.”

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Emma Raducanu has revealed her brief partnership with coach Mark Petchey may now be over after her battling performance against world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka.

Petchey made a huge impact in Raducanu’s set-up after coming into the team during the Miami Open, where she reached the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament.

Her performance in the 7-6(6), 6-4 defeat against Sabalenka highlights the strides forward she has taken with Petchey on her team, but their temporary agreement has now come to an end.

Petchey’s commitment to his broadcasting career means he is not willing to travel full-time with Raducanu and while he would not say this publicly, committing fully to a player who has changed coaches time and again since her 2021 US Open win might not be the best career move.

Now Raducanu has confirmed she does not know if she will work with Petchey again, even though she has clearly enjoyed having the former British Davis Cup player in her camp.

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“He obviously has his commentating commitments. He agreed to kind of help me until the end of Wimbledon and then we kind of see from there because he gave up some work to work with me here, which I really appreciate and I’m grateful for,” she said.

“That’s a conversation that we need to have after a few days and the dust settles a little bit.”

The huge improvements made on Raducanu’s serve since Petchey came into her set-up were in evidence against Sabalenka, as she maintained a high level of play throughout against the best player in women’s tennis.

In addition to the technical improvements, Petchey has also brought an element of fun and joy back into the Raducanu camp and that has allowed her to clear her mind and play her best tennis once again.

“I cannot predict anything, but I definitely sure that, maybe not in a month, but maybe a bit longer period, but she definitely going to get back in top,” said Sabalenka as she spoke about Raducanu in her Wimbledon press conference.

“She’s fighting. She’s playing much better. She’s more consistent. I can see that mentally she’s healthy. I think that’s really important. Yeah, I’m pretty sure she’s getting there.”

Raducanu has to take so much confidence from her display against Sabalenka, as recent clashes against the best players in the game have been one-sided defeats.

“It does give me confidence because I think the problem before was that I felt like I was gulfs away from the very top,” said Raducanu.

“Having a match like that where I had chances in both sets, it does give me confidence. At the same time, it’s very difficult to take right now.

“It gives me confidence that I’m not as far away as I perhaps thought before the tournament. I think before previously when I was playing those top-5 players, it was pretty convincing, the loss.

“To really push Aryna to the top, it gives me confidence. But at the same time, like, I feel like grass for me is a great surface. It’s a bit of a leveller in that sense. So I think taking it onto a different surface, where it’s a lot more lively in America, is another challenge in itself.

“Positives were that I was toe to toe with her. Before the match, I actually went into this match feeling more confident than in previous matches against the top, but I think there is a big difference in the first serve.

“I think that’s something that I need to improve on. I don’t know. I’m, like, always quite critical, so I probably will just, like, right now come off and tell you all the things that I could do better. I think the good things,

“I took my chances when it was there. I didn’t execute all the time, but I think I returned really well considering she’s got one of the best serves in the game. But yeah, I need to work on my own serve.”

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From the heartbreak of defeat to the joys of career-changing victories, Solana Sierra has experienced the full range of sporting emotions across her landmark Wimbledon campaign.

Last Thursday, Sierra suffered an agonising loss in the final round of Wimbledon qualifying, falling 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to Talia Gibson, despite holding a 5-3 lead in the decider.

However, while Gibson would be beaten by Naomi Osaka in the opening round of the main draw, Lady Luck was on Sierra’s side.

The withdrawal of Greet Minnen saw the Argentinian enter the draw as a lucky loser and, just 15 minutes after finding out she would play, defeated Olivia Gadecki to pick up her first main draw SW19 win.

That was followed by a three-set triumph over home favourite Katie Boulter – out on Court 1 no less – before another gritty three-set win over Cristina Busca on Friday.

After losing a lopsided second set and being broken early in the decider, her hopes looked over.

But an extraordinary surge for the 21-year-old saw her retake complete control, battling her way to a 7-5, 1-6, 6-1 triumph on Court 12.

“It was really tough,” said Sierra in her post-match press conference.

“I started really well in the first set and she started to play really well. I think we had a great level.

“In the second set, I didn’t play too good, but she was playing good also. But, I think the key was to stay positive and fight for every point. That’s what I did in the third set.

“There was just a lot of happiness [after the match], with my team, my mum was there also, so it was very emotional.

“Last year, I played all the qualies of the Grand Slams. I think it was a really great experience, but this year I have another mentality, that I believe more in myself, and believe that I can do better in the bigger tournaments and the Grand Slams.”

Before Wimbledon, Sierra had never won a Grand Slam match, though she is now the first lucky loser in the Open Era to reach the fourth round of the women’s singles event.

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Her extended run continues a crazy week for the 21-year-old, who has had to move apartments four times during her time in London, including after her win versus Boulter in the second round.

It is not exactly a living situation the tournament’s leading players would relate to, many of whom have been renting the same Wimbledon houses for several years.

But it hasn’t seemed to deter Sierra, who appears to be taking things on the chin.

“We changed yesterday [Thursday] again, in the afternoon,” she revealed. “Now, we have until next Thursday, so we have more days to stay!”

Having previously reached a career-high of world No 100 in the WTA Rankings, Sierra is guaranteed to break new ground after Wimbledon.

The Argentine was provisionally up to a new career-high of world No 79 in the live rankings ahead of facing Bucsa, but is now up to a new projected high of world No 65.

All this comes as a huge positive to Sierra, who has previously trained at the Rafa Nadal Academy and looks to the likes of Gabriela Sabatini and David Nalbandian as her idols.

“I always dreamed to do good in the Grand Slams. My dream, of course, is to win one. I will just keep training and fighting for that dream.

“It’s very special. I think I’m not really concentrating on the rankings, but I think it helps to play the bigger tournaments, and not to play qualies in the Grand Slams.

“I’m trying to tell to myself that I belong here, it’s a bit crazy for now. I think my game and my level, it belongs here.”

After a dream run, Sierra has been handed yet another opportunity to potentially progress even further through the draw.

The Argentine will next face veteran Laura Siegemund in the fourth round, after the German stunned sixth seed Madison Keys on Friday afternoon.

Unsurprisingly, the two have not met on court before, though Sierra is preparing herself for another big battle against an opponent who is also looking to reach a first Wimbledon quarter-final.

“It’s going to be really tough,  I know she has really good experience on the tour, so it’s going to be tough, like all the matches.

“I will just try to focus on myself.”

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Emma Raducanu is the centre of attention once again as she plays in her home Grand Slam at Wimbledon and the British media have been speculating on one regular attendee in her players’ box.

Benjamin Heynold was courtside for her historic US Open win four years ago, with their friendship dating back to their days playing junior tennis together in Britain.

Heynold has been a vocal supporter of Raducanu in her first two matches at Wimbledon and he has also been prominent in her social media posts in recent weeks.

The British No 1 has not commented on her friendship with Heynold, but that has not stopped the tabloid media from speculating on his relationship with the 22-year-old.

Raducanu will always attract this kind of attention as he name and image sells well on websites and with what is left of the print newspaper industry, with the rumours of a romance with Carlos Alcaraz fuelled by the media in recent weeks.

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Alcaraz and Raducanu will team up for the mixed doubles event at the US Open later this year, with Raducanu confirming she is a big fan of her fellow Grand Slam champion.

“I’ve known him for years and actually in Wimbledon 2021, it was like kind of the first time I started getting to know him, and I had a good run there and then also again in the US Open in 2021,” said Raducanu.

“I remember he was always playing the day before me and I was playing like the second day of the round. And I would see him win and then I would have motivation to win and get myself into that position too.

“We have a good relationship still. He’s obviously overtaken me a lot, but it’s nice that we have that from a while ago.

“I think for all of us, we really kind of value those connections that we had from when we were young because when you become a bit more known or a bit more successful, you just find yourself reverting back to people you knew from a young age because you’re like, that’s a real genuine connection, because it becomes very busy and you have a lot more friends, but the ones that you’ve known for a long time mean a lot more to you.”

There were bizarre stories in recent weeks focusing on sightings of Raducanu and Alcaraz together, but media on site at Wimbledon were aware that the pair were due to take part in an Evian promotion event two days before the Championships, so an appearance together was hardly surprising.

Yet the enduring appeal of Raducanu will ensure speculation and rumours will always hover around her and the stories linking her with her friend Heynold are an extension of that.

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Nick Kyrgios believes Jannik Sinner will end up having a better career than Carlos Alcaraz and he has given a bizarre reason for coming to that conclusion.

Sinner and Alcaraz have dominated men’s tennis the past few years as they have shared the last six Grand Slams with the Italian winning two Australian Open titles and the US Open crown last September, while Alcaraz has lifted two French Open trophies and won one Wimbledon since the start of 2024.

Following the recent successful defence of his Roland Garros title, where he came from two sets to love down and saved three match points to beat Sinner, Alcaraz moved to five majors with his close rival, who has been No 1 in the ATP Rankings since June last year, sits on three.

Alcaraz is also the in-form player on the ATP Tour as he has won 20 matches in a row with his last defeat coming in the final of the Barcelona Open in April.

During an episode of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown series, Kyrgios chatted with renowned coach Patrick Mouratoglou as they discussed who will have the better career between the two young stars.

The Australian stated: “I’ll say Sinner because Alcaraz loves the girls. He might get distracted, he might party too much. That’s my only thing, Sinner will stay a bit more locked in, I think.”

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A laughing Mouratoglou replied: “Sinner is more consistent in general. It’s more his mentality. If you look at this season, Alcaraz is losing a lot more matches than Sinner, so many more. And you think, he should not. Why [is he losing]?

“But because he is not always there [gestures to his head]. Even during the match, he has ups, downs [and] the other guy is like this [flat lines]. For that reason, yes [I think Sinner will be more successful].

“But at the end, it is going to be all about the big ones and their head-to-head because they are going to face each other in finals a lot.”

Alcaraz leads their rivalry 8-4 as he has won their last four five encounters with Sinner’s last win at the Beijing semi-final in 2023.

Frenchman Mouratoglou, who is also the founder of the UTS, added: “So who is going to win most of the time [in the head-to-head] is going to be the one to have the most titles and if you look at it at the moment, it’s Alcaraz. He has won the last five, five in a row.

“[For that reason] I say Alcaraz, but it is going to be close.”

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On the lawns of the All England Club, Jannik Sinner has made serene progress through his opening two rounds at Wimbledon

After a comfortable 6-4, 6-3, 6-0 win over Luca Nardi in round one, the Italian was arguably even more impressive in round two on Thursday.

The world No 1 needed just 100 minutes to see off Australia’s Aleksandar Vukic in a 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 triumph, a flurry of break points in the final game the only trouble he faced out on Centre Court.

Amid a mass exodus of seeded players at Wimbledon, Sinner’s status as the world’s best player has stood out, the 23-year-old one of just two men to reach the third round without dropping a set.

However, while things have been close to perfection on the court, he faces a few more complications off it.

Sinner is undoubtedly a remarkable player, and could easily lift the title next weekend, though it is impossible to escape the fact that he was serving a suspension just two months ago.

The Italian’s three-month suspension, served from February to May, was the culmination of a drawn-out saga involving him, his entourage, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), which initially began with two failed drug tests in March 2024.

Sinner managed to appeal against initial provisional suspensions, claiming contamination caused by former physio Giacomo Naldi, an argument that the ITIA ultimately upheld in August 2024.

News of the case emerged just days before his ultimately successful US Open campaign last summer and, until his suspension in February 2025, he remained conclusively the world’s best player.

It was not until WADA appealed the ITIA’s ruling that Sinner re-faced the risk of a ban, and the two opposing parties eventually settled on a three-month suspension, without the need for a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

However, among several players, there has been a public sense of injustice, a feeling among some that the world No 1 was treated rather favourably due to his status.

Whether this is true or not will likely remain a matter of personal opinion, but, compared to the warmer response Sinner had from the media at the Italian Open, his comeback event, and at Roland Garros, he has undeniably faced more pertinent questioning at Wimbledon.

And, that questioning comes at the time a formerly banned player, once critical of the handling of Sinner’s case, has been making his way through the draw.

Kamil Majchrzak is back at Wimbledon for the first time since 2022 and is through to the third round at the All England Club, an eye-catching win over Matteo Berrettini the highlight of his campaign.

The Pole was provisionally suspended back in December 2022 after failing drug tests at three different tournaments, claiming an isotonic drink had led to the failed tests.

The ITIA ruled that Majchrzak has “not knowingly or intentionally” committed any wrongdoing, though was handed a 13-month suspension for his violation.

After returning in 2024, he claimed the initial outcome of Sinner’s case was “shocking and extremely painful” at the 2024 US Open, where he was competing in qualifying.

Rightly or wrongly, Sinner was directly asked about Majchrzak’s case after his victory over Vukic on Thursday night.

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He was directly asked whether more help should be provided to lower-ranked players and whether it was more difficult for such players to respond to doping cases.

Sinner offered a rather pragmatic response, in which he insisted that, despite his financial advantage, there had been no different treatment.

“So what I think is that I am in a position where I can take a lawyer or a higher, good lawyer, because I’m in the position,” responded Sinner. “Fortunately, I also have the money what maybe others don’t have.

“But the process I went through, it’s the same. There is no better treatment. Maybe I have good defense in a way because I have good people around, and this is because I’ve earned my money, and now I can do that.

“In the other way, the process like the ITIA works and how fast everything goes, it’s the same. So I know there in the past there have been difficult choices and decisions. This I understand.

“But, yeah, what I can say that my case was controlled not once, but twice, three times, and it always came out that I was innocent.”

When Sinner twice tested positive for clostebol in March 2024, he was ranked third in the world and was fresh off winning his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.

The Italian has won even more titles, and even more prize money, since then, but there is no denying that he was already well-placed to deal with the fallout of his case.

But, in response to a second question on Thursday night, he appeared to claim this was a benefit of his success.

He added: “If this happened to me maybe when I was 18, for example, I didn’t have the money, so maybe I was in the same situation.

“It happened when I earned my money, and then obviously I take the best people I can. It’s the same thing with the best players to have also the whole team for them.

“I have two coaches. Here I don’t have a physio and physical trainer. You can build up everything. It’s the same thing on the other side.”

Sinner will return to court on Friday for his third-round match against Pedro Martinez, another contest he will be expected to win comfortably.

A three-time quarter-finalist and former semi-finalist at Wimbledon, the 23-year-old is comfortable on grass; a fourth Grand Slam title next weekend would be a shock to no one.

But, off the court, it feels like life will remain a little more uncomfortable for him for some time yet.

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