Both were tall guys, who stayed behind the baseline and hit the ball hard all of the time. Both had limited ability against top level talent. Both guys wore baseball hats and have curly hair. Both were sponsored by Nike.
The future of the sport is me time traveling to become the best player the world's ever seen. Bet you didn't see that one coming!
i think it's important to remember Jannick started tennis training aged 12.... several vital years behind carlos.
Go back six months and sinner would have no slam no masters 6 or so titles. And the comparison made sense then. It's not just because both are tall. They both lacked something in rallies. The x factor.
Jannik started at three and seemed to have focused more on skiing between ages 7 and 8. That Cult Tennis video that kickstarted this Sinner PR to the mainstream peddles a questionable narrative. That he turned pro at 14 despite the claim of his starting at 12 should make one incredulously cross-verify said claim!
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You are right. Its PROPAGANDA by his fans who are just a bunch of kids who didn't know that these athletes can excel at many sports.
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Yeah, well, I can't really fault you for having more faith in Sinner than Alcaraz. Call it recency bias but you feel what you feel. Sinner has indeed put things together.You are right. Its PROPAGANDA by his fans who are just a bunch of kids who didn't know that these athletes can excel at many sports.
Sinner is now in between Berdych and Nole but soon he will have his own way ahead. He seems to be the future. I have more faith on him than Raz.
Jannik Sinner is very similar to Berdych
When Sinner was skinny and lacked top tier serve, many of us including myself saw him as mini Berdych. He had the same smooth fh and ability to hit the cover of the ball like Berdych. It also meant his top game would have been a bit conservative and without any complexities. But as he got fitter...
A player like Carlos wont be denied, people watch highlights and think he is all about reaching imposible balls and thats It lol, they cant know what people that have watched countless matches from him know
Idk why people pick Alcaraz. 2 out of four slams are hard court. Sinner is so much better than Alcaraz on hard court, and I think he’ll be better than Alcaraz on grass with the height differenceYou are right. Its PROPAGANDA by his fans who are just a bunch of kids who didn't know that these athletes can excel at many sports.
Sinner is now in between Berdych and Nole but soon he will have his own way ahead. He seems to be the future. I have more faith on him than Raz.
Jannik Sinner is very similar to Berdych
When Sinner was skinny and lacked top tier serve, many of us including myself saw him as mini Berdych. He had the same smooth fh and ability to hit the cover of the ball like Berdych. It also meant his top game would have been a bit conservative and without any complexities. But as he got fitter...
Exactly my point. 2 slams are on HC and Sinner is better. Even on grass, we don't know but JUST LIKE Djokovic, Sinner will probably dominate it soon. The serve and return combo is all that matters to me. Out of clay.
Precisely. I said this about Rune earlier but there will be shockwaves across the unbelievers' TTW soon from Carlos, but at a significantly larger scale.
Just that missed overhead by Nole and those missed backhands in the tiebreaker in that Wimbledon final and Alcaraz would’ve been slamless in 2023. Also don’t forget Sinners match point in 2022
Absurd...
I can't take any past slams away from Raz. I am more talking about long term future. Raz had Nadal like rise but we will see in few years.
If Djokovic was above a challenger level doubles player level, Sinner would have been treated the same as he was in the Wimbledon semifinal. If Medvedev had played an hour or so fewer at the AO, Sinner would have been crushed in straights.
You shouldn't take them away from him as well. But we can extrapolate on how he will perform on HC this year.
2024 is Sinners year not Alcaraz’s. Alcaraz will need a change in coach if he goes 2024 slamless
2024 has just started. I won't give it to sinner at all.
Yeah well I'll still give him some time but he better fix his internal struggles first.
Remember when sinner won a masters at 19 beating novak in the final? Me neither
Doesn't mean he's not gonna get stuck in a rut and fall behind sinner who steadily improved
Doesnt mean that he Will either lol, It means what It means
Rune has shown some mental skills that zverev never did, zed was just overpowering people, just like sinner is doing now, only that he has won a slam, something that zverev got very Close of doing, i wont speculate about the future, i prefere to Talk with the facts that we have on hand, and rune has shown more promising skills than sinner did at the same age, if you wanna think he is just gonna get worse being 20, well suit yourself, i really dont, i have watched a lot of tennis, and despite the good results zverev or tsitsipas had early on, i never saw that extra bit needed to do something remarcable, i see it with rune, but hes gonna have to improve and hes gonna have a lot of competition
If you only see the results, you wont get the whole picture, i Talk about the tennis, watching both, its obvious rune has a higher ceiling than zverev, sinner is older, and still has a much worse Game at the net than rune, and a much less complete Game from the get go, if you wanna make predictions about the future, then watching the actual tennis Will help a lot more than just checking past results, i probably watched more than 20 rune matches since he was on tour, i watched a lot of FULL matches from Young zverev too, and then i can give an informed opinion, then of course, its just an opinion, but i always feel people here Talk a lot and dont watch enough.
And still he has won Wimbledon, USO and numerous Masters.
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