Winner Sinner
Hall of Fame
Mine is more of a rhetorical question, you just need to have two eyes to give an affirmative answer to the question. Sinner in the past has often been compared to Djokovic and today the comparison is increasingly popular, the Serbian legend himself in the press conference after the Shanghai final essentially decreed him as his heir. At most in terms of the game there are some similarities in how both exert strong pressure from the back of the court to strangle their opponent, but also substantial differences considering that Djokovic strangles and above all strangled his opponents by weaving his web, therefore maneuvering the exchange at will from both sides making the unfortunate player on duty act as a windshield wiper until the opponent, exhausted by his continuous search for angles, metaphorically threw in the towel on the ground (the 2013 Australian Open semifinal against Ferrer is emblematic). Sinner, on the other hand, exerts his constant pressure from the back of the court in a much more linear way, therefore without seeking too many open angles, but at the same time with a much more violent and aggressive and less measured rhythm, due to the fact that his ball travels much faster than the Serb's has ever traveled. No, for me the aspect where Sinner is increasingly approaching Djokovic consists in the coverage of the court, which then reflects on the ability to know how to defend himself in an excellent way in situations where the opponent has apparently taken command of the exchange, thanks precisely to those defensive skills that Sinner is continuing to develop, he manages, as Djokovic had accustomed us, to often overturn the inertia of the exchange. In short, as I have already had the opportunity to say in another thread, the secret of Pulcinella of this sensational escalation of Sinner in the last 12 months consists mainly in his movement, he is increasingly quick, fast and coordinated, and all this is reflected in a total mastery in the exchanges where he allows himself fewer and fewer unforced errors compared to the past, taking full control of them. Even when lately, due to force majeure, his opponents set up a more aggressive and risky tactical plan against him, he incredibly does not lose his composure and manages to be so much in control of the exchange. Yesterday during the exhibition match with Medvedev, the Italian commentator who commentated on the match underlined how on the court Sinner gives the impression of skating so much is his ease in moving around that is negligible. And I would like to remind you that he combines all this with great balance skills that he has had with him since he was a kid excelling in the national alpine skiing categories younger in the most technical specialty of all, the giant. So if we consider that we are talking about a player who is 1m93 tall with a great wingspan, just to get back to the focal point of the thread, we can say that Sinner is one of the best athletic freaks that have been seen in the history of tennis.