Renowned coach Patrick Mouratoglou has argued that Carlos Alcaraz must improve his serve and return as he described Jannik Sinner\u2019s dominance in these two areas as \u201csomething new in tennis history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinner<\/a> topped the ATP Tour leaderboards for both serve and return statistics in 2025, with Alcaraz<\/a> 10th in the serve rankings and second for return.<\/p>\n The serve rating takes into account first serve percentage, first serve points won, second serve points won, percentage of service games won, and the average number of aces and double faults hit per match.<\/p>\n The return rating incorporates first serve return points won, second serve return points won, percentage of return games won and percentage of break points converted.<\/p>\n Sinner leads the tour for first serve points won (79.5%), second serve points won (59.1%), and most significantly, percentage of service games won (92%).<\/p>\n The Italian is also top for percentage of return games won (32.6%) and second serve return points won (57.8%), while he is third for first serve return points won (33.6%), behind Alcaraz (35.0%) and Mariano Navone (34.0%).<\/p>\n Sinner defeated Alcaraz 7-6(4), 7-5 in the final of the ATP Finals in Turin, which was the last match of the 2025 campaign for both players.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner dominance leaves former star \u2018concerned\u2019 as lack of rivals addressed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Boris Becker names four players who could break Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner\u2019s Grand Slam duopoly<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In a post on his LinkedIn account, Mouratoglou identified the difference between Alcaraz and Sinner in Turin as he looked ahead to 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cCarlos wasn\u2019t at his absolute best this week,\u201d Mouratoglou wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cToo many unforced errors with the backhand. Moments of lost focus on the forehand. Maybe end-of-season fatigue, maybe simply not the same confidence indoors.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the answer is clear: If he wants to dominate 2026, improvements must start with the first two shots, serve and return.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause Jannik is currently No 1 in the world in serve+1 AND return+1. That\u2019s unique. We\u2019ve had players dominate one side of that equation, Roger on serve+1, Rafa and Novak on the return, but never both. This is something new in tennis history.<\/p>\n \u201c2025 gave us the rivalry we hoped for. Six finals this season. Four on the biggest stages. Two legends in the making, pushing each other to evolve every month. Carlos finishes as World No 1. Jannik finishes with the Nitto Finals title, and the momentum. 2026 already looks incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner forced to give up millions in cash after facing ATP penalty<\/a> The post Carlos Alcaraz urged to improve two things as Jannik Sinner is doing something \u2018new in tennis history\u2019\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Renowned coach Patrick Mouratoglou has argued that Carlos Alcaraz must improve his serve and return as he described Jannik Sinner\u2019s dominance in these two areas as \u201csomething new in tennis history.\u201d Sinner topped the ATP Tour leaderboards for both serve and return statistics in 2025, with Alcaraz 10th in the serve rankings and second for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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