{"id":1424,"date":"2025-12-07T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:30:24","slug":"former-british-no-1s-shock-verdict-on-why-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner-and-are-better-than-the-big-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Former British No 1\u2019s shock verdict on why Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner and are better than the \u2018Big 3\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novak Djokovic<\/a> has been quick to suggest the claims that Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Jannik Sinner<\/a> have taken tennis to the next level are not respecting the achievements of the three most successful male players of all-time, but former British No 1 Greg Rusedski has told Tennis365 that the new \u2018Big 2\u2019 are in a league of their own.<\/p>\n

Djokovic hit back at reports that Alcaraz and Sinner were playing the game at a level above the one produced in an era he dominated alongside Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.<\/p>\n

That iconic trio won 66 Grand Slam titles between them, but some of the game\u2019s greatest players have claimed the new dominant duo in men\u2019s tennis are hitting the ball with more venom and consistency than the \u2018Big 3\u2019.<\/p>\n

Now Rusedski has waded in on the debate, as he claimed every new era in the sport raises the bar of excellence, which is why Alcaraz and Sinner are already being hailed as all-time greats of the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery generation goes to the next level and that\u2019s what we are seeing with Alcaraz and Sinner,\u201d said the 1997 US Open finalist told Tennis365, ahead of the launch of his new podcast, Off Court with Greg.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cSports science gets better, techniques gets better, racket technology improves and while we are saying Alcaraz and Sinner are playing tennis we have never seen before, that doesn\u2019t mean the greats of the past would not also rise to this level if they had the same conditions to play in now.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at my generation and we had Pete Sampras in there. He got to 14 Grand Slam titles to break the all-time record in the men\u2019s game and everyone said that would never be beaten.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen all of a sudden, along comes Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic and they all won 20 and more Grand Slam titles. Throw Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka in that picture as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat era had three of the all-time greats and everyone was saying what is going to happen when Federer, Nadal and Djokovic are gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen Alcaraz and Sinner show up. Sometimes there is a one or two-year gap before new players start to dominate, but it has happened right away with these two.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Rusedski assesses why Alcaraz and Sinner have developed a stranglehold on the sport, he believes both have brought very different qualities to the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlacarz exploded out and starting winning right away, just like Rafael Nadal did,\u201d he added. \u201cHe has been amazing for the sport and to already have six Grand Slam titles is an incredible number.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you look at Sinner and the way he has used his skills as a skier to move around the court so effortlessly. I\u2019ve never seen a player move like that before.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou speak to other players and they say they just strike the ball so hard on both sides. Alex de Minaur said they strike it even harder than Federer, Nadal and Djokovic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Roland Garros final they played this year was one of the best matches we have ever seen, including anything we saw from the Federer, Nadal and Djokovic match-ups.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat tells you we are looking at two players here who are playing at another level, but whether they ever win as many titles as the \u2018Big 3\u2019, that\u2019s a very different debate.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to respect the longevity and the achievements of Roger, Rafa and Novak. Their records will be very tough to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Novak Djokovic has been quick to suggest the claims that Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have taken tennis to the next level are not respecting the achievements of the three most successful male players of all-time, but former British No 1 Greg Rusedski has told Tennis365 that the new \u2018Big 2\u2019 are in a league […]<\/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-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","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=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}