How long until(if?) Alcaraz gets the career slam?

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Many expected that this year's AO would be it but it turned out to be far from happening.

Considering his recent form on HCs and not really playing his best, how are we expecting this to turn out?
 
How many considered it. He was second favorite behind sinner no lies.

I think next 4 years he should win it considering how strong sinner was this year. He might beat sinner or might not.
 
FlatShot_V said:
Many expected that this year's AO would be it but it turned out to be far from happening.

Considering his recent form on HCs and not really playing his best, how are we expecting this to turn out?
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Who thought that? Seems like a select few given Sinner's dominance on the surface.
 
mike danny said:
To be honest, he shouldn’t even be vying for the career slam. Was extremely lucky at the USO and that run looks more like fluke with each passing year
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If Cilic wasn’t such a choker, he would’ve put him away. I predicted Sinner pre-tournament but such is life
 
Rosstour said:
I say that not because of Sinner but his fans

there's a weird tennis fan subgroup that only likes certain kinds of players, and they jumped ship from Thiem to Rune to Sinner and they hate guys like Carlos and Musetti, very weird

If a guy plays the kind of tennis I like, I don't care if he's a similar genotype
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I don't know about that.

I think there are bunch of bad apples in every group but sinner fans some group claim he is like Federer in his 4th year as world number 1.

Dude he went 0-3 vs raz last year.

Both things can be true. Sinner can be great and raz can still be great.

Sinner is not YET in his fourth head as number 1.
 
The HC slam he did win lightning had to strike and he had to luck out. If he does win both HC slams it will be even below Johansson level IMO. 2023 Wimbledon so far seems like the only slam he has won very convincingly. He would have to take down Sinner in the finals or something to make me think otherwise. He’s lucky he got the US open that’s for sure. Cilic should have taken him out
 
He won’t win the career slam. He is below average on hard courts.

Djokovic, Sinner, Zverev etc, will prevent him from ever winning the AO. He’s not winning a non-asterisked USO either. He’s just too vulnerable on hard courts. He did not inherit Nadal’s luck with weak draws.
 
djokovic the conqueror said:
He won’t win the career slam. He is below average on hard courts.

Djokovic, Sinner, Zverev etc, will prevent him from ever winning the AO. He’s not winning a non-asterisked USO either. He’s just too vulnerable on hard courts. He did not inherit Nadal’s luck with weak draws.
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Djokovic received it in 2018, 2023, don't you remember?
:p
 
djokovic the conqueror said:
He won’t win the career slam. He is below average on hard courts.

Djokovic, Sinner, Zverev etc, will prevent him from ever winning the AO. He’s not winning a non-asterisked USO either. He’s just too vulnerable on hard courts. He did not inherit Nadal’s luck with weak draws.
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He has won uso iw twice Miami , within 1 pt of winning Cincy

Beijing Rotterdam and such.

You probably don't understand tennis.
 
New one hot take.

Raz would never win ao.

TennisLovaLova

Thread 'Djokovic will never win Roland Garros'

And here's why: to win Roland Garros, you need to play the most courageous tennis of your life. And unfortunately for him, it's the one quality Djokovic is lacking. Djokovic is talented, he plays with his heart, he has the stamina, the juice, he makes you play the extra shot, but his tennis has 0 courage.
Nadal has tons of courage, like Federer or Wawrinka, they try stuff on the court. Djokovic is great at counterpunching, but to win RG, especially if he has to face one of those three, he needs courage.
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The problem is there is literally zero loss of credibility for taking these type of hot takes. The loss of credibility should a threat used vs members.
 
There should be threat of losing credibility for the strongest opinions.

You can make very strong opinions but if you can't back that up, there should be public ridiculing.

Which already exist but I think for extended time period.
 
You got a new generation of guys coming on the scene like Fils and Fonseca so he may find it difficult adding sinner into the mix as well. Djoker will be a roadblock for at least another year as well as he won’t go away quietly until he gets that 25th slam. I’m sure there will be another 2-3 players that burst onto the scene within the next 2 years as well. Alcaraz just can’t win titles with ease. It’s always a struggle

Someone that struggles that much through draw you can’t hand them titles. It’s not Federer who sleepwalks through draws. I give him a 3-4 year window to win Australia. If he hasn’t won it by 25-26 he won’t win it as there will already be a new generation of plays as slam threats
 
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Players who won IW, Miami and USOpen in last 35 years (1990 and so on)

Agassi
Sampras
Federer
Djokovic

Alcaraz

That is it, that is the list.

All of these guys have won multiple Australian Open titles. In fact Agassi, Fed and Nole at each point were record holders of AO titles. And Sampras did skip many times in Melbourne still won it twice.

So THEN TO SAY, Raz is average on HC would be practically a lie.

By age 22 , he has won 1 slam, 3 masters, 1 500 title. Skipped 1 slam, and 1 masters.

HC is his worst surface but he has won 4 big titles already before turning 22 on it. More than Nadal who won 3 masters and 0 slams on HC.




 
His HC titles are de facto Clay titles. 2 of Those have been won on Blue Clay in Indian Wells where clay courts specialist like Thiem, Nadal, Norrie and Corretja won there.
He also won his Fast HC titles in Miami and New York against clay court specialist Casper Ruud.;)
 
FlatShot_V said:
Many expected that this year's AO would be it but it turned out to be far from happening.

Considering his recent form on HCs and not really playing his best, how are we expecting this to turn out?
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Might be hard for him now. AO conditions suit flatter hitters and Sinner looks set to rule there. Im sure Alcaraz will get one there at some point but he will need Sinner to be off form, ill or injured. Thats the one place Alcaraz is clearly inferior to Sinner.
 
M4tchP0int said:
His HC titles are de facto Clay titles. 2 of Those have been won on Blue Clay in Indian Wells where clay courts specialist like Thiem, Nadal, Norrie and Corretja won there.
He also won his Fast HC titles in Miami and New York against clay court specialist Casper Ruud.;)
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Those clay specialists Correjta apart all won Hard court big events lol.
 
nolefam_2024 said:
Deep rooted issues with raz if seems because he couldn't stop nole. Give up fedfan
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I agree with everything you said in this thread right up to this moment. Why do you have to make it about federer and nole?

If anything you could accuse fed fans of it'd be rooting for djokovic last wimbledon, since alcaraz has no real threat in grass courts as of now, and is the only one with a remotely realistic prospect of surpassing sampras and maaaaybe fed's wimbledon titles if this keeps going.
 
1-2 years. Alcaraz will definitely make the AO final, and he plays well against the only player who I think can beat him in a slam final.
 
FlatShot_V said:
I agree with everything you said in this thread right up to this moment. Why do you have to make it about federer and nole?

If anything you could accuse fed fans of it'd be rooting for djokovic last wimbledon, since alcaraz has no real threat in grass courts as of now, and is the only one with a remotely realistic prospect of surpassing sampras and maaaaybe fed's wimbledon titles if this keeps going.
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LMAO
 
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