{"id":717,"date":"2025-07-13T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2025-07-13T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:27:15","slug":"former-british-no-1-says-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner-are-ahead-of-big-3-in-one-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Former British No 1 says Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are ahead of \u2018Big 3\u2019 in one area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have started their own era in men\u2019s tennis after dominating the last seven Grand Slam events, yet former British No 1 Dan Evans has suggested their levels of consistency are \u2018not normal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner won his first Grand Slam title at last year\u2019s Australian Open and backed that up with a win at last year\u2019s US Open and a successful defence of his title in Melbourne in January.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz has won two French Open titles and two Wimbledon titles over the last couple of years, with the new \u2018Big 2\u2019 in men\u2019s tennis also making it through to this year\u2019s Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n<p>Such relentless consistency is remarkable for players who are at the start of their careers, with former British No 1 Dan Evans telling Tennis365 that their he duo are playing \u2018beyond their years\u2019 as they march to titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe play older than their years,\u201d Evans told Tennis365, as he joined the TNT Sports panel for their live coverage of the Wimbledon finals.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/news\/djokovic-retire-injury-jannik-sinner-wimbledon\">Novak Djokovic retirement rumours will swirl after crushing Jannik Sinner defeat at Wimbledon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/novak-djokovic-injury-wimbledon\">Novak Djokovic reveals how long he expects to be sidelined after Wimbledon injury blow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJannik is so mature at the age of 23 and that makes you forget how young he is. It has become the norm for them to get to Grand Slam finals and to play brilliant tennis tournament after tournament, but that is not the form for players that young.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes they have a slight blip and we are all surprised, but that is pretty normal for players of that age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans went on to suggest Sinner\u2019s achievement of bouncing back from a French Open final defeat against Alcaraz that saw him fail to convert on three match points could have broken the spirit of some players, yet he found a way to bounce back quickly at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Sinner to be where he is now after having that heartbreaker against Alcaraz in Paris says all you need to know about him,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have the mental capacity and the guts to get up off the floor after that match and play as he has done at Wimbledon, to forget about it and not be angry, it\u2019s a really special thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor someone of his age and who has only been operating at the very top of the game for the last couple of years, it reminds you how good he is. Whatever happens on Sunday, it\u2019s unbelievable the way he has come back from that final at Roland Garros. He should be massively proud of himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got everything in his game and he has the personality to go with it. Sinner is more of a steamroller who just blows his opponents off the court. He is more subdued, more focused and that\u2019s why the rivalry is going to be such a good one. \u00a0They seem to be polar opposites and that makes the rivalry so good to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans is in a great position to judge whether Sinner and Alcaraz are playing at a higher level than Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in their prime and he admits the new young guns may be ahead of the three most successful players of all-time in one area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinner and Alcaraz might hit the ball harder than Fed, Nadal and Novak, that\u2019s probably fair to say,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that Jannik and Carlos will be all-time greats of the sport, but they need to keep this up and their bodies have got to stay fit for a long time before they can start thinking about winning the number of Slams Novak has won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Watch both singles\u2019 finals from Wimbledon live on TNT Sports and its streaming platform discovery+ this weekend with Nick Kyrgios, CoCo Vandeweghe and Dan Evans offering their own insights and analysis during both matches. Coverage for the ladies\u2019 and the gentlemen\u2019s singles finals begins at 3:30pm.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wimbledon\/jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz-big-3-comparison\">Former British No 1 has a message for Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz amid \u2018Big 3\u2019 comparisons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wimbledon\/jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz-dan-evans-compares-federer-nadal-djokovic\">Former British No 1 says Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are ahead of \u2018Big 3\u2019 in one area<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/\">Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have started their own era in men\u2019s tennis after dominating the last seven Grand Slam events, yet former British No 1 Dan Evans has suggested their levels of consistency are \u2018not normal\u2019. Sinner won his first Grand Slam title at last year\u2019s Australian Open and backed that up with a [&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-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}