Exactly! Carlos's hyper aggressive game is actually very suited to grass if you think about it. It's actually very impressive that his game is so balanced that he can tweak it to adapt to high bouncing clay, and flat skidding grass
i love the "barely beat" part everyone uses all the time with alcaraz lol, 6-4, 6-3 in the last two sets... coming from an injury and missing the whole clay season, when carlos stops having those up and downs in matches (which is normal at his age) sinner is not gonna be able to win a set against him
That a player who won queens and wimbledon last year (beating one of its historically biggest champs in the final no less) is less suited to win over there than a "mythical" player who hasnt really won a lot on grass, and faced a complete beatdown by Djokovic last year in the semis. Just because he crushes the ball from both ends doesnt mean his "era on grass" has begun when he has showed no signs of doing so till now, whereas the other player literally went undefeated on grass last year, and has an equally suited game on grass with his dominant FH, very good net play, ultra aggressive mindset and variety. I even think Alcaraz is a better mover on grass at this moment between the two. Alcaraz beat freakin Djokovic last year by playing a very good GRASS game (not clay game).
Nah. The goal post will be moved for as long as it takes for the two-years-older Sinner to hit his mythical prime.
Exactly. He says the most stupid stuff just to stay relevant. Pathetic
Youre not doing it right. Gulp more. Youre not taking all of it in the mouth. Keep practicing to inhibit the gag reflex, thats when you will properly take it all in
Exactly this
You're a new user I see. I am replying to a few chronic Sinner fans who love nothing more than to hype their player for reasons that cannot be apparently attributed to others including the younger, vastly more accomplished Alcaraz.
Sinner is a former skiier. He moves better on grass and hits a hell lot bigger and serves better
I know you're agitated. But there is more than one poster like the OP here in this very thread. Look around without the need to defend Sinner (he'll continue being world class without any of our validation).
He’s currently having a 90+% season. He has only lost to the champions of each tournament he lost this year. Better than Fed 2004 so far. Let’s see how it ends
I'm not going to call them out by name but there's a group of specific posters that constantly have been speaking of Sinner's dominance over Alcaraz being inevitable, posters that have already posted in this thread. One of them literally said that Sinner will give Alcaraz a straIght set beating at Wimbledon and diminished his FO win over Sinner unsurprisingly.
Made a large bet at 4.4 (+340) in March when I saw how ****ty Novak was playing and now again at much worse odds (2.75/+175) with the news that Novak’s knee is probably preventing him from playing.
Should’ve caught him at 1/14. The China open was the defining moment in his career and I knew it.
As an Austrian i always wonder what this "former skiier" argument should demonstrate? It has no other impact than other sports where you need a little bit of balance.
I didn't say it was Sinner's tournament to win lol. I said he's on a short list of guys that can win it.
Is it going to be tough? I name exactly three players who can play with him on grass, one Charlie, one Hurkbot, and one a geriatric with a knee issue who in all likelihood doesn’t even step foot in SW19.
There's some ironic trolling here. I'm cool with it. But there's also some unironic trolling that I often find distasteful.
Precisely. It's silly to write off the world number 1, but it's even sillier to write the current world no.2 off to absurd reasons such as the ones said posters pontificate.
Carlos was terrible on grass in 2022, didn’t play a single lead-up event and instead got badly beaten in an exho tourny before WB. IIRC even Ruud beat him. Then he barely survived Struff in WB and was lucky to make it to the 4R. He’s improved much more on the surface than Sinner, who was better on the surface in 2022 and worse in 2023.
You also need to remember Carlos was only 19 then and Sinner was the age Alcaraz is now. Carlos had very little grass experience at that point and in very short order figured it out and won the whole thing last year.
I think you're being pretty harsh on Jannik tbh. 2022 he played one warmup event on grass and lost his first match, and while he played 2 and a half very convincing matches at Wimbledon against Isner, Alcaraz, and Djokovic, saying he was better than he was in 2023, where during the lead-up he beat good grasscourt players like Sonego, Gasquet, and Bublik, and then pretty much rolled through his first 5 rounds at Wimbledon looking as good as anybody, is pretty unfair. He was worse against Novak, yes, that's all.
Carlitos played perfectly fine on 2022 given the circumstances, "barely got past stuff" "Lucky to get to 4r" how was he Lucky? He beat griekspoor in straights playing great and otte Who had just won a grass tournament, struff was a super tricky first found on the surface and a super Young Carlitos managed It being super clutch, i dont know how you could expect more
Sure, i didnt say he didnt
Sinner reached a new level only last fall. So he didn't have the opportunity to show off on the grass. I don't count the semis of the last Wimbledon, where Sinner's draw was at the challenger level. But in 2022 he reached the quarters, beating Alcaraz and taking the first 2 sets from Djokovic. So we can expect him to perform very well on grass with his much improved serve.
I don’t dispute any of that. I expect a lot from him going forward even though, right now, Carlos is the better player in my book and he has shown that to be the case.
Alcaraz did OK for a first timer, but the gist of it is he wasn't half the player on grass he proved to be last year. Which is perfectly fine, but renders any conclusion drawn from his 2022 season pointless from a 2024 perspective. You liked Carlos's 2022 grass season? Fine. It still doesn't mean jack when talking about 2024 since he already proved to be much better on the surface a year later.
2-0 this year H2H across two surfaces and far more accomplished so far while being two years younger. Keep coping.
