Acclaimed tennis coach Rick Macci has analysed Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s impact on tennis and revealed how the dominant duo are \u201cchanging the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinner and Alcaraz\u00a0have established a Grand Slam duopoly by winning the last seven Grand Slam titles between them since the start of 2024<\/a>, with the former securing four and the latter claiming three.<\/p>\n Alcaraz<\/a>, 22, has won five majors in total (two Wimbledon titles, two French Open titles and one US Open), while Sinner<\/a>, 23, has collected four (two Australian Open titles, one US Open title and one Wimbledon title).<\/p>\n The pair faced off in the final of a Grand Slam for the first time at the 2025 French Open, with Alcaraz triumphing in five sets after an epic five hours and 29 minutes.<\/p>\n Sinner took his revenge with a four-set win over his Spanish rival in the Wimbledon championship match last month. The overall head-to-head is 8-5 in Alcaraz\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n In an exclusive interview with Tennis365, Macci<\/a> assessed that Alcaraz and Sinner are changing the sport in a different way to the Big Three of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re seeing something special in real time, the game is so much different because of the rackets, because of the strings, because of the athlete, the speed of the ball,\u201d said the American.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner described as \u2018catchable\u2019 by ATP rival despite dominance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Jannik Sinner\u2019s current hard-court run compared with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic\u2019s best streaks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis is something like no other and they\u2019re changing the game. Sinner\u2019s changing the game on how consistently you hit the ball with quality. And then Alcaraz, how complete\u2026 okay, coaches should teach young kids the completeness and obviously the drop shot.<\/p>\n \u201cBut they\u2019re changing the game. In some subtle ways, the Big Three did that, but not like these guys. I mean Alcaraz is changing the way you teach the game.<\/p>\n \u201cEven the mechanics, because we\u2019re heavy into the biomechanics (at Macci\u2019s academy), the ATP forehand is modified since I first did this like 15 years ago and explained what was going on out there \u2014 there\u2019s all kinds of adaptations and modifications that the Next Gen is bringing with how to get maximum racket head speed and more spin.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just the technology, there\u2019s certain ways that they\u2019re figuring out on the fly.\u201d<\/p>\n Sinner and Alcaraz could meet in the final of the Cincinnati Masters<\/a>, where they are seeded first and second respectively.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Carlos Alcaraz achieves a major milestone as he eats into Jannik Sinner\u2019s ATP Rankings lead<\/a> The post Legendary coach breaks down how Carlos Alcaraz & Jannik Sinner are \u2018changing the game\u2019\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acclaimed tennis coach Rick Macci has analysed Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s impact on tennis and revealed how the dominant duo are \u201cchanging the game.\u201d Sinner and Alcaraz\u00a0have established a Grand Slam duopoly by winning the last seven Grand Slam titles between them since the start of 2024, with the former securing four and the […]<\/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-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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