{"id":522,"date":"2025-05-28T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:37:04","slug":"former-world-no-1-asked-which-young-stars-could-stop-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Former world No 1 asked which young stars could stop\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No 1 Caroline Wozniacki has admitted she finds it \u201chard to see\u201d who can beat Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner when the duo are at their best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\">Alcaraz<\/a> and Sinner are the two clear favourites for the title at the 2025 French Open.<\/p>\n<p>Between them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\">Sinner<\/a> and Alcaraz have split the last five Grand Slam titles, with the Italian securing the three hard-court majors in this period and Alcaraz triumphing at the French Open and Wimbledon last year.<\/p>\n<p>World No 1 Sinner is seeking his maiden French Open crown, while Alcaraz is chasing his third big clay title of 2025 after winning in Monte Carlo and Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in her role as a TNT Sports pundit, Wozniacki was asked if men\u2019s tennis was wide open or whether Alcaraz and Sinner\u2019s dominance has already closed that window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think it\u2019s still wide open,\u201d the Dane said at an event attended by Tennis365. \u201cObviously these two guys are such incredible athletes and have proven that they\u2019re great champions. And what they\u2019ve been able to do in a short amount of time is absolutely incredible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd obviously Jannik, winning in Australia and making the final (in Rome) after not playing for three months, coming back in Rome and still being in tip-top shape, just shows what an incredible player that he is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarlos, you know, he has been, obviously when he\u2019s on his peak, probably the best player in the world, but he\u2019s a little bit more up and down, but I think it\u2019s so fun to watch him just do the magic that he does on court.<\/p>\n<h2>French Open News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/john-mcenroe-carlos-alcaraz-playing-style-debate-french-open\"><strong>John McEnroe offers intriguing take as he answers Carlos Alcaraz question<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-fatal-bar-physical-weakness-french-open\"><strong>Jannik Sinner has one \u2018fatal\u2019 weakness that a brutal statistic confirms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou still have other young players, other players that have been around for a long time, like [Alexander] Zverev and [Stefanos] Tsitsipas and other players who are still trying to break through, who you feel for them that maybe their window has closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZverev is getting to the finals of Slams, he\u2019s getting close, but he just can\u2019t\u2026 you know, he reaches Sinner and Alcaraz and it\u2019s uphill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re so young, so many things can happen. They need to have their body feel good at all times, they need to stay healthy, but I mean, how they\u2019re playing right now when they\u2019re playing their best, it\u2019s hard to see who can beat them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Australian Open winner also weighed in on which young players could challenge Alcaraz and Sinner at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack Draper has shown that he\u2019s been playing some incredible tennis lately and I think he\u2019s up there,\u201d said Wozniacki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he obviously hasn\u2019t won the Slams like Sinner and Alcaraz, but I think he can beat anyone on a good day, on any surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd obviously, being a Dane, I like to believe in Holger Rune. He hasn\u2019t been doing and having the results lately and I think he\u2019s had some sickness, some injuries, changes of coaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think the consistency of going back to his old coach has really helped him and hopefully he can get his fitness back. I would like to see him up there challenging for Slams and feel like he\u2019s in contention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, do I feel like he\u2019s in contention for this French Open and this Wimbledon? I don\u2019t know. Maybe not. But you know, I\u2019d like to think that when we look into the next couple of years, that he will find his way. And he\u2019s young and I would like to think that he can contend for the big trophies at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch every moment of the French Open live and exclusive on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discoveryplus.com\/gb\/sport\/tennis\/roland-garros\" target=\"_blank\">discovery+<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/facts-stats\/carlos-alcaraz-sublime-french-open-2025-feat-rafael-nadal\">Carlos Alcaraz trails only Rafael Nadal &amp; Bjorn Borg in incredible clay stat after French Open win<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-french-open-verdict-caroline-wozniacki\">Former world No 1 asked which young stars could stop\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/\">Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No 1 Caroline Wozniacki has admitted she finds it \u201chard to see\u201d who can beat Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner when the duo are at their best. Alcaraz and Sinner are the two clear favourites for the title at the 2025 French Open. Between them, Sinner and Alcaraz have split the last five [&hellip;]<\/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-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}