Both shared the four grand slams of the season, marking differences with the other figures on the circuit. “What unites them in many cases, beyond the styles, is that they are very mentally strong players and very emotionally stable,” explains former player Javier Frana.
The ATP circuit season is entering its home stretch and leaves behind two great world figures: Jannik Sinner (23 years old) and Carlos Alcaraz (21 years old). For the first time since 2003, no member of the Big 3 won the Grand Slam crown since the Italian and the Spaniard shared the four titles of the season, namely the Australian Open and the US Open for the peninsula, while the Murcian was crowned at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. We can therefore rightly say that world tennis is entering a new era.
“Sinner has very few weaknesses. It is very difficult to find the weakest point in his game, as he has greatly improved the efficiency and power of his serve. He made some technical adjustments, in terms of the legs, the position, then in terms of the drive. In recent years it has increased significantly. It was a slightly more unstable hit than today. He moves like he did in his early days, when he skied. He has very good body balance when running sideways. And from these positions he constantly counterattacks,” explains former Argentinian tennis player, coach and commentator Javier Frana.
From his point of view, the transandean believes that this firmness is the key to the counterattack. “It never loses stability and in precision sports, when you don’t lose stability, obviously it has much more regularity. This hurts sides where many others would perhaps defend. And then, generally speaking, it seems like he can adapt very well to strategic versatility. stands out from the current world number one.
“And he can play you with a little more patience, he can be a little more energetic. It therefore also adapts to different surfaces. He understands and has the logic and at the same time the mentality which allows him to benefit from all these technical virtues. Strategically, it is very clear and with an accompanying mentality to support all these processes that have to do with the technical and the strategic,” he concludes.
Injuries and consistency
As for Carlitos, Frana highlights other qualities. “He has speed in his transfers, enormous power physically and in his game in general, with his punches. He is a player who does not forgive your imperfections, who constantly attacks you, who does not let you think too much and who imposes a game on you that is sometimes very physically demanding.” he emphasizes.
“And clearly he has the enormous ability to adapt perfectly to his style of play, which adapts him perfectly to different surfaces. In fact, he is the sixth to win Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the same year and this is precisely due to this enormous technical, physical and, above all, mental capacity. He’s a guy who understands perfectly how to keep up with the naturalness that often comes with pressure and what it means to be a favorite, to be a candidate and to have responsibilities or obligations to always win. he emphasizes.
Former Chilean tennis player Sergio Cortés also provides his analysis of the two tennis players. “These are the players who are ready to lead this new group. Even though they hit quite hard, they have very different tennis. Alcaraz plays with a little more weight, with higher shots, with weight, with a lot of power, in the Spanish way, although he always plays straight forward, and Sinner plays a little straighter. he suggests.
For the former member of the Chilean Davis Cup team, the future of both will be marked by how they take care of themselves physically. “It will go through all the ailments they suffer from, because they play at a very high level. And, so that they can stay on the circuit for a long time, the ideal is that they do not have as many injuries. Federer, Nadal and Djokovic lasted a long time, they passed 30 years. So, I’m a little worried that at the level they play, injuries could have detrimental consequences,” he warns.
Cortés has a preference if asked about one of the two. “In terms of tennis, Personally, I prefer Sinner. I think he is a player who, in addition to his elasticity and forward play and who hits very well from both ends, is also quite intelligent. “, without taking away from the fact that Alcaraz is also a great player,” he says, while insisting on the fact that they must work physically. “They’re going to excel over the next five or eight years, but injuries are going to be big in their way.”
While Frana emphasizes that “what unites them in many cases, beyond styles, “They are very mentally strong players and very emotionally stable.”
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Source: Latercera
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