{"id":998,"date":"2025-09-07T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:30:23","slug":"former-world-no-1-makes-bold-carlos-alcaraz-grand-slam-prediction-after-us-open-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Former world No 1 makes bold Carlos Alcaraz Grand Slam prediction after US Open win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> stormed back to the top of the world rankings as he blew his big rival Jannik Sinner<\/a> away in a US Open<\/a> final that suggested he is the best player in the game when he plays at his very best.<\/p>\n

Competing against each other in a third Grand Slam final in 2025, Alcaraz ensured he beat Sinner in a second major final of 2025 after his epic victory in the French Open in June.<\/p>\n

This win was even more impressive than his iconic and dramatic victory in Paris, with former world No 1 Mats Wilander telling Eurosport that his 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 took him by surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlcaraz was just a little bit too good,\u201d declared Wilander.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, he was as sharp as he\u2019s been all tournament and he was too good. He\u2019s still so young, that\u2019s what scary. He\u2019s got six majors, back to world No 1, which is huge for him. The youngest man to win six Grand Slams, he broke another record of mine.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI thought Jannik Sinner was going to come out on top, but Carlos Alcaraz \u2013 wow \u2013 when he plays well he really is the best player in the world. A huge victory. Day in and day out, you play for the world number one ranking. He\u2019s got it back and it\u2019s not easy to get it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

When assessing where Alcaraz got the better of Sinner, former US Open champion Wilander admitted his domination as complete against the outgoing world No 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was so focused, he didn\u2019t make many unforced errors,\u201d said Wilander.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s good everywhere. He\u2019s so solid, so nice, the niceness is the best part,\u201d added Wilander. \u201cHe\u2019s a great player, but he\u2019s so nice, so humble, so youthful and having fun all the time. He\u2019s a great ambassador for our sport.<\/p>\n

\"Mats\n

Mats Wilander is part of the Eurosport commentary team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIf he can serve like he did today, I don\u2019t think there is any weakness whatsoever. Today, he served incredibly well. Normally, Jannik Sinner has the better serve, but not today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a good serve, it sticks around and he will serve great from now on. They both know they have the tennis world in their hands and they\u2019re controlling it. They\u2019re going to split the Grand Slams every year for a very long time to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilander then made a bold suggestion that Alcaraz may get close to matching Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in the Grand Slam stakes.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has now won six Grand Slams at the age of 22, with Djokovic the all-time leader in men\u2019s tennis with 24, Nadal in second place on 22 and Federer on 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been with the same team since he was very young., I think he\u2019ll win so much more,\u201d added Wilander.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is, will he win as much as Federer, Djokovic and Nadal. Will he win 20 Slams? There is a good chance he will.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carlos Alcaraz stormed back to the top of the world rankings as he blew his big rival Jannik Sinner away in a US Open final that suggested he is the best player in the game when he plays at his very best. Competing against each other in a third Grand Slam final in 2025, Alcaraz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}