Andre Agassi sparked a huge debate when he suggested Jannik Sinner\u2019s preparations should to be questioned after his shock collapse at the French Open and now John McEnroe has responded to his comments.<\/p>\n
Sinner\u2019s demise against Juan Manuel Cerundolo was one of the biggest upsets of the tennis year, with the world No 1 sliding to a defeat when he was on the brink of a comfortable win in Paris.<\/p>\n
The hot conditions appeared to contribute to his downfall, with tennis legend Agassi refusing to hold back as he told TNT Sports that Sinner<\/a> had no excuses for his sudden loss of conditioning.<\/p>\n \u201cSinner going out was huge,\u201d said Agassi. \u201dI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve called him out on that enough by the way.<\/p>\n \u201cI had a body clock of about four hours when I played, and if you gave me hot conditions, it dropped to about three hours 45. It didn\u2019t change a lot. Maybe if you gave me great conditions, I could stretch it to four hours 10.<\/p>\n Andre Agassi rips into Jannik Sinner with brutal take down as he insists \u2018there\u2019s no excuse for him\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Toni Nadal makes \u2018truly strange\u2019 Jannik Sinner comment after Italian\u2019s Roland Garros collapse<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBut [for Sinner] to go from him playing five-and-a-half hours last year in the final, to having the heat tap him in one hour 45.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a difference between being fit and being prepared, and I have to point to a flaw in that kind of preparation, because there\u2019s something you can do about that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not that that dude doesn\u2019t work hard, it\u2019s not that he isn\u2019t fit \u2013 he was one game away [from winning] and then the whole draw would have opened up. We all thought we\u2019d see him here, maybe not lose a set.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re so scientific these days about their prep, about their recovery. I\u2019m sure he has a staff of doctors and people.<\/p>\n \u201cHe needs to figure out what to change. He may need to bring somebody in. It\u2019s got to be some form of a hydration issue.<\/p>\n \u201cI know before I went out in Australia and played in a three out of five in hot conditions, I was doing 10 to 12 litres of water within 24 hours of that match. Plus my four-to-one ratio of protein over carbs.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to force it, and it\u2019s better to have it in you and not need it, than need it and not have it. I\u2019d question his intake and if he\u2019s doing it properly.<\/p>\n \u201cI know nothing about his preparation. I know that he can play for five-and-a-half hours. He\u2019s proven it. I know he\u2019s the best player on the planet right now, but I also know there\u2019s no excuse for him to run into a wall at an hour 45.\u201d<\/p>\n Now Agassi\u2019s fellow tennis legend McEnroe has responded, as he spoke to Tennis365 at a TNT Sports event and gave his respond to Agassi\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not a new issue. He\u2019s had trouble with this for a couple of years,\u201d said McEnroe.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is brutal when you have to deal with this kind of heat, but he has had three or four different occasions when he has cramped up.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I\u2019m assuming that over the course of the last three or four years, they have been doing everything they can possibly do, whether it\u2019s testing or food intake, to work out a way to minimise this issue. I think they will continue to do that.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my opinion, it\u2019s in his head a little bit. It\u2019s hard to deal with that and remain calm.<\/p>\n \u201cCarlos Alcaraz had a problem against Zverev at the Australian. He was cramping and somehow he recovered.<\/p>\n \u201cSinner has gotten through some of these matches when he has cramped and we\u2019d be talking about a different final if he had got through that one game.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s too bad. It shows he\u2019s human, but I\u2019d be willing to bet anything that they are doing everything they can to fix this.\u201d<\/p>\n Sinner is not expected to play again until he start his defence of the Wimbledon title at the end of this month.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: ATP Rankings Winners & Losers French Open: Sinner misses out, Cobolli\u2019s highs, Kouame +102, Arnaldi +70, Draper -37<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post John McEnroe responds to Andre Agassi\u2019s stinging criticism of Jannik Sinner<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andre Agassi sparked a huge debate when he suggested Jannik Sinner\u2019s preparations should to be questioned after his shock collapse at the French Open and now John McEnroe has responded to his comments. 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