Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have warned that one player could prevent another dream final at Wimbledon with Toni Nadal suggesting the \u201cgreat hitter\u201d could cause heads to fall.<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s tennis top two players produced another enthralling chapter in their rivalry a fortnight ago in the French Open final as they slugged it out for five hours and 29 minutes.<\/p>\n
World No 1 Sinner<\/a> dominated early on as he stormed into a two-sets to love lead, but Alcaraz<\/a> fought back and saved three match points in the fourth set before winning 4-6, 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-2) in the second longest Grand Slam final in the Open Era.<\/p>\n With the win, the Spaniard moved to five majors while Sinner remains on three and the pair have now shared the last six Grand Slams.<\/p>\n They will once again only be able to meet in the final at Wimbledon<\/a> with Sinner the first name on the draw sheet as he is the world No 1 while Alcaraz will headline the bottom half of the draw.<\/p>\n But of course, there will be a lot of obstacles in the way and legendary coach Nadal \u2013 who mentored his nephew, the great Rafael Nadal, from a young age \u2013 named one player who could cause chaos.<\/p>\n \u201cNormally, a Sinner-Alcaraz final [would be expected], but we\u2019re talking about a particular Slam, there are always some surprises,\u201d he told Italy\u2019s Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you find a [Ben] Shelton or another great hitter on the day, important heads can fall. Grass is a treacherous surface, where the match can quickly get out of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n The big-serving Shelton \u2013 who reached the fourth round at SW19 last year \u2013 is projected to be seeded 10th at Wimbledon and could meet one of Sinner and Alcaraz from the last 16 onwards.<\/p>\n He is 0-3 against Alcaraz, including a fourth-round defeat at this year\u2019s French Open, while the American has won only one of his six clashes against Sinner and that was their maiden clash back in 2023.<\/p>\n Wimbledon 2025 men\u2019s draw suffers blow as another seeded player withdraws<\/a><\/p>\n Jannik Sinner must overcome his Carlos Alcaraz kryptonite if tennis\u2019 next great rivalry is to survive<\/a><\/p>\n Nadal also discussed Sinner\u2019s hopes at Wimbledon following his round of 16 defeat against Alexander Bublik at the Halle Open.<\/p>\n When asked if the three-time Grand Slam winner\u2019s French Open final defeat had an impact on his performance in Germany, the Spaniard replied: \u201cI don\u2019t think so. It was a different situation, a different surface, a different player.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe Sinner still lacks a bit of consistency after the break, but let\u2019s not forget that he has reached two finals, a Masters 1000 and a Slam since he came back.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think this defeat on grass will undermine his path at Wimbledon or the rest of the season. Sinner will start again from here.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Toni Nadal names ATP star who could stop a Jannik Sinner-Carlos Alcaraz Wimbledon final<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have warned that one player could prevent another dream final at Wimbledon with Toni Nadal suggesting the \u201cgreat hitter\u201d could cause heads to fall. Men\u2019s tennis top two players produced another enthralling chapter in their rivalry a fortnight ago in the French Open final as they slugged it out 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-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Wimbledon News<\/h3>\n