{"id":987,"date":"2025-09-06T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=987"},"modified":"2025-09-06T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:14:42","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner-boring-claim-addressed-by-former-world-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner \u2018boring\u2019 claim addressed by former world No 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> will contest their third straight Grand Slam final at the US Open<\/a> on Sunday, with former world No 1 Mats Wilander among those questioning whether their rivalry is in danger of becoming repetitive.<\/p>\n

In a truly sensational contest in the French Open final between the duo in June<\/a>, Alcaraz fought off match points before finding a way to win against his great rival.<\/p>\n

Sinner gained swift revenge as he beat Alcaraz to win his first Wimbledon title<\/a> a few weeks after that Paris epic and now the best two players in the world will meet again in the US Open final.<\/p>\n

A new era of Sinner vs Alcaraz finally is well underway, with former US Open champion Wilander insisting sports fans around the world are not growing tired of watching two players contest all the big finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see it as boring because every time Sinner and Alcaraz play a final, I am expecting something very special,\u201d said Wilander, as he prepares to lead Eurosport\u2019s commentary team for this weekend\u2019s US Open.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe reason why I believe Sinner and Alcaraz are so far ahead of the rest in the men\u2019s game is that they are so complete.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are playing our game in a different style than two or three years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look back to that period, we had Daniil Medvedev maybe as the best hard court player in the world for a period of time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you compare to the pace of play and the speed Jannik Sinner is playing at and there is a big different. Sinner doesn\u2019t wait for anything to come to him. He goes to the ball, attacks it and puts his opponents under pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same with Alcaraz. He waits for nothing. He attacks every ball and you just feel there is no time to rest.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompare this to Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev or Medvedev and they often wait for the ball to come to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t see that with Sinner and Alcaraz. They are just much more aggressive than the other players and not just some of the time. All of the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are just more aggressive and until someone comes along to match them, they will be hard to beat. The style of tennis they are playing now is just so hard to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilander went on to suggest the tennis served up by Sinner and Alcaraz in their epic French Open final earlier this year was the best he has ever seen, in comments that suggest the new \u2018Big 2\u2019 in men\u2019s tennis are playing at a better level than Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic<\/a> when they were at their peak.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of the level of the play, tennis has never been played at a higher level than the French Open Final this year was played,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat match has put a lot of pressure and expectations on both Sinner and Alcaraz for them to be able to do that again and again because that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to take for them to become more important than Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for the next few Grand Slams, we are going to be talking about Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, but are they able to dominate the way they did at the French Open, at Wimbledon, and make it to the finals every time?<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe we\u2019re seeing two players that will fight for probably 15 Grand Slam finals before they\u2019re done, at least. They\u2019re that good. And at the moment, they\u2019re that much better than everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next chapter in the Sinner vs Alcaraz rivalry is upon us and no tennis fan is feeling we have got anywhere near saturation point yet with these two titans of the sport.<\/p>\n

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Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz will contest their third straight Grand Slam final at the US Open on Sunday, with former world No 1 Mats Wilander among those questioning whether their rivalry is in danger of becoming repetitive. In a truly sensational contest in the French Open final between the duo in June, Alcaraz fought […]<\/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-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","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=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}