Jannik Sinner is the overwhelming favourite win the Roland Garros this year, but Mats Wilander believes the ATP Tour could concoct a plan to stop him.<\/p>\n
Sinner will play Roland Garros without Carlos Alcaraz, due to the Spaniard\u2019s unfortunate wrist injury he suffered last month at the Barcelona Open.<\/p>\n
Without Alcaraz, Sinner will be confident he can win the Grand Slam for the first time in his career, but Wilander believes multiple players have the chance to knock the Italian out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the only thing that can stop Jannik Sinner from winning in Paris is the other 127 players. Somehow, they have to come to an agreement and decide, \u2018Even if I\u2019m going to lose this match against Jannik, I have to push him to his physical limits,\u2019 said Mats Wilander to Eurosport<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jannik Sinner\u2019s clay dominance likened to Rafael Nadal ahead of French Open tilt<\/a><\/p>\n The Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic record that Jannik Sinner could break at Roland Garros this year<\/a><\/p>\n Sinner\u2019s<\/a> physical issues have nearly been exploited on several big occasions so far this year, including against Eliot Spizzirri at the Australian Open<\/a> and versus Daniil Medvedev<\/a> in the semi-finals of the Italian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wilander<\/a> believes the players could stop him if multiple manage to push him to his limits in consecutive matches at this year\u2019s Roland Garros<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the only thing I see with Jannik is that if he strings together three or four really tough matches\u2014we already saw how he struggled in Australia, although the temperatures there are much higher\u2014if he has bad luck and faces the wrong opponent on a very hot day and the match goes on for a long time, how does he recover for the next one?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think the key is physical, because technically and tactically, his level of tennis and his ability to execute different shots are a bit above the rest these days,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cBut, of course, you can lose to someone: the level of the men\u2019s tour is incredible. Casper Ruud<\/a> is playing very well. That 6-4, 6-4 in the final wasn\u2019t that far off in terms of tennis.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it\u2019s a five-set match, maybe someone can take him to four, and then someone else can take him to four again, and so on. That\u2019s the only option I see.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilander believes two players are the standouts to push Sinner to his limit in Paris: Ruud and Medvedev.<\/p>\n \u201cMedvedev, for example, in a night session in Paris can be tricky, because the court is a bit slower and his shots have little spin, almost no effect. They\u2019re heavy balls, and that can make things difficult for Sinner,\u201d Wilander explained.<\/p>\n \u201cOr he could face someone like Casper Ruud on an extremely hot day, when Ruud\u2019s topspin bounces very high and the match becomes very physical.\u201d<\/p>\n Sinner has been beaten by Alcaraz<\/a> in the last two years at Roland Garros, but other ATP<\/a> names have been able to get the better of the Italian in Paris.<\/p>\n Daniel Altmaier stunned Sinner in the second round of the 2023 French Open, while Andrey Rublev<\/a> and Rafael Nadal<\/a> have also beaten the Italian.<\/p>\n The post Mats Wilander shares \u2018the only thing\u2019 that can stop Jannik Sinner from winning Roland Garros<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jannik Sinner is the overwhelming favourite win the Roland Garros this year, but Mats Wilander believes the ATP Tour could concoct a plan to stop him. Sinner will play Roland Garros without Carlos Alcaraz, due to the Spaniard\u2019s unfortunate wrist injury he suffered last month at the Barcelona Open. Without Alcaraz, Sinner will be confident […]<\/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-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Jannik Sinner news<\/h2>\n