Zverev vs Alcaraz, who will have the better 2025?

Zverev vs Alcaraz for the better 2025

  • Alcaraz

    Votes: 56 81.2%

  • Zverev

    Votes: 8 11.6%

  • I don't care

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Your mom

    Votes: 5 7.2%
  • Total voters
    69
GloW

GloW

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One of the best rivalries of 2024, Zverev vs Alcaraz. Both finished in the top 3 and are Sinner's main competitors. With Alcaraz winning 2 grand slams and one masters this year and Zverev making the final of Roland Garros, winning two masters, and being more consistant overall by achieving the higher ranking between the two. While it is obvious that Alcaraz is already an ATG Zverev is one of the few players that have a positive h2h over him. Even Sinner has failed to do so. So which of these two players will have a better 2025 season and why?
 
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nolefam_2024 said:
In 2024 everyone expected Carlos to be number 1. Safe to say he will have much better year than Sascha. Much better.
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Same as 2024. Alcaraz will show up for a few big tournaments and lose to mugs in early rounds in others. Zverev will continue to be the perpetual bridesmaid, losing in more finals than he wins.
 
Winners or Errors said:
Same as 2024. Alcaraz will show up for a few big tournaments and lose to mugs in early rounds in others. Zverev will continue to be the perpetual bridesmaid, losing in more finals than he wins.
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Hopefully both of them can "fix themselves and their errors" this break so we can see much higher levels of tennis from them along with much higher levels of consistency and mental strength.
 
GOATcaraz will win at least one major. Zedrot, unless he has a drop off similar to what he had after winning WTF a few years ago, should get a big haul of runner-ups and m1000 titles.

Zverev might actually be the best player in the world on two different surfaces now in the Bo3 format. Carlitos is the complete opposite, he prefers the big boy tennis of the majors. Unless he is playing Sinner, we rarely see Alcaraz anywhere close to his best in Bo3 and he seems entirely disinterested in the shortened format of the game now.
 
Good question.
In my opinion, next year both Alcaraz and Zverev will have a better season than the one that just ended.
Alcaraz will be more consistent, although in my opinion he won't win 2 slams like in 2024.
In the end, the Spaniard is still 21 years old and is still fully developing.

Zverev, on the other hand, is 27 years old, the right age to express his best level, let's remember the serious injury he suffered in the semi-final of Roland Garros 2022, consequently 2023 was an interim season for him, 2024 an adjustment one, and 2025 could be the best of his career.

In the end I vote for Alcaraz but I wouldn't be surprised if Zverev was still positioned above the Spaniard in the rankings even at the end of 2025.
 
Alcaraz will have the more spectacular; Zverev the more mundane one.

Who's trying to compare the next best player to a choker? Better compare Alcaraz to Sinner!
 
GloW said:
One of the best rivalries of 2024, Zverev vs Alcaraz. Both finished in the top 3 and are Sinner's main competitors. With Alcaraz winning 2 grand slams and one masters this year and Zverev making the final of Roland Garros, winning two masters, and being more consistant overall by achieving the higher ranking between the two. While it is obvious that Alcaraz is already an ATG Zverev is one of the few players that have a positive h2h over him. Even Sinner has failed to do so. So which of these two players will have a better 2025 season and why?
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Alcaraz, without a doubt.
 
GloW said:
One of the best rivalries of 2024, Zverev vs Alcaraz. Both finished in the top 3 and are Sinner's main competitors. With Alcaraz winning 2 grand slams and one masters this year and Zverev making the final of Roland Garros, winning two masters, and being more consistant overall by achieving the higher ranking between the two. While it is obvious that Alcaraz is already an ATG Zverev is one of the few players that have a positive h2h over him. Even Sinner has failed to do so. So which of these two players will have a better 2025 season and why?
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Alcaraz to win the Calendar Slam. I predicted that in 2022 he would do it in 2025.
 
Subway Tennis said:
GOATcaraz will win at least one major. Zedrot, unless he has a drop off similar to what he had after winning WTF a few years ago, should get a big haul of runner-ups and m1000 titles.

Zverev might actually be the best player in the world on two different surfaces now in the Bo3 format. Carlitos is the complete opposite, he prefers the big boy tennis of the majors. Unless he is playing Sinner, we rarely see Alcaraz anywhere close to his best in Bo3 and he seems entirely disinterested in the shortened format of the game now.
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Alcaraz is a clone of Nadal in that respect. It is in fact a Spanish thing as in Spain the season is the clay season and the Majors and that is about prolonging careers.
I think Alcaraz wins all 4 Majors next season. I feel he is a level above everyone else including Sinner.
 
SonnyT said:
Alcaraz will have the more spectacular; Zverev the more mundane one.

Who's trying to compare the next best player to a choker? Better compare Alcaraz to Sinner!
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Please explain why Zverev had a better 2024 then? Sinner Alcaraz is boring :rolleyes:
 
Aabye5 said:
I feel like players who lack consistency are less likely to peak at the majors, but perhaps you're right.
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Alcaraz reminds me a little bit of GOATwrinka, not in playing style but more in attitude. Both players are diesels who play on inspiration who enjoy the extra time to get their teeth into a match. There is something about majors with the longer tournament time and longer match format that really appeals to them.

When they go mentally walkabout in a match or start poorly they still have extra time to change the momentum back and let inspiration and the crowd fuel them. There are usually more “crunch” moments in Bo5 than Bo3. The larger spread and instance of crunch/pressure moments in the longer match format seems to favour absurdly clutch players like GOATwrinka and Alcaraz who have an obsession with reserving their best tennis for the most crucial moments possible.
 
Subway Tennis said:
Alcaraz reminds me a little bit of GOATwrinka, not in playing style but more in attitude. Both players are diesels who play on inspiration who enjoy the extra time to get their teeth into a match. There is something about majors with the longer tournament time and longer match format that really appeals to them.

When they go mentally walkabout in a match or start poorly they still have extra time to change the momentum back and let inspiration and the crowd fuel them. There are usually more “crunch” moments in Bo5 than Bo3. The larger spread and instance of crunch/pressure moments in the longer match format seems to favour absurdly clutch players like GOATwrinka and Alcaraz who have an obsession with reserving their best tennis for the most crucial moments possible.
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That's a pretty unique comparison(y)
 
Subway Tennis said:
Alcaraz reminds me a little bit of GOATwrinka, not in playing style but more in attitude. Both players are diesels who play on inspiration who enjoy the extra time to get their teeth into a match. There is something about majors with the longer tournament time and longer match format that really appeals to them.

When they go mentally walkabout in a match or start poorly they still have extra time to change the momentum back and let inspiration and the crowd fuel them. There are usually more “crunch” moments in Bo5 than Bo3. The larger spread and instance of crunch/pressure moments in the longer match format seems to favour absurdly clutch players like GOATwrinka and Alcaraz who have an obsession with reserving their best tennis for the most crucial moments possible.
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Interesting comparison. On a similar interesting note, I've found Alcaraz to be what Verdasco could have been if he consistently replicated that one match over and over again.
 
THUNDERVOLLEY said:
Arguably, the one who is not a violent offender. In other words, Alcaraz, and not this guy:

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and how does that have anything to do with the year they will have?? Did anybody ask?? Funny that the “violent offender” is ranked higher than Alcaraz.
 
GloW said:
A slam final is bad?
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Let us just say this might be a highlight for zverev and it will stay be okay and if raz has just a slam final without a win, it would be bad year

You also know raz is leagues above zverev, a genuine atg who has great chance to contend for goat title. While zverev can not even buy forehand after 10 years on the tour.


It's like Ferrari vs mini cooper
 
nemala said:
Charlie will peak again to win Wimbledon
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If he wins 3 consecutive wimbledons at his age... It would be crazy, i personally would be content with one slam, whichever It is, and more consistency during the year, i can see improvements on his serve but against lehechka you could see that It is still a new mechanism to him and on important moments its still hard to get the most out of It, despite the loss i think he played good and put himself in a good position to win the match, but on hard courts everything happens very fast and not being clinical for 10 minutes can make you lose the match, lehechka started to hit very hard and not missing, but to me, after watching Carlos for a long time, that loss didnt feel like other times where he was basically outplayed on hardcourts, like against dimitrov in Miami last year
 
Sorry, the thread was also about zverev, well, i expected him to win at least one of the south american tourneys, but It can be tricky to switch surfaces just for two tournaments, and he said he normally needs a lot of matches to be clay fit, i cant tell yet if hes gonna have a great year, reaching the AO final was good, but the way he Lost maybe wasnt good for his mind, he didnt really went out playing bad, but the important points and the tempo of the match were too much under sinners control, was too one sided, his best chance should be clay
 
TheSlicer said:
Sorry, the thread was also about zverev, well, i expected him to win at least one of the south american tourneys, but It can be tricky to switch surfaces just for two tournaments, and he said he normally needs a lot of matches to be clay fit, i cant tell yet if hes gonna have a great year, reaching the AO final was good, but the way he Lost maybe wasnt good for his mind, he didnt really went out playing bad, but the important points and the tempo of the match were too much under sinners control, was too one sided, his best chance should be clay
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Do you still see Carlos having a better year than Zverev?
 
TennisGrandpA said:
Do you still see Carlos having a better year than Zverev?
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Well that depends how we look at It, last year Carlos won the Channel slam but we could say that zverev had a more consistent year, we have to look also at the Clay season where Alcaraz was mostly injured and its normally where he gets most of the points, so that had an impact, we could think Carlos has the potential to have higher highs, but there are too Many variables involved and thus i dont fancy making predictions honestly, either zverev or Carlos could have a bad injury and missing some months of the season changes your year completly, i would like to think Carlos is gonna have a great season, and zverev had a great season last year but at the end of the year, he had some subpar results, losing to fritz twice at grand slams wasnt good, but apparently he carried some physical issues, we Will have to see.
 
TheSlicer said:
Well that depends how we look at It, last year Carlos won the Channel slam but we could say that zverev had a more consistent year, we have to look also at the Clay season where Alcaraz was mostly injured and its normally where he gets most of the points, so that had an impact, we could think Carlos has the potential to have higher highs, but there are too Many variables involved and thus i dont fancy making predictions honestly, either zverev or Carlos could have a bad injury and missing some months of the season changes your year completly, i would like to think Carlos is gonna have a great season, and zverev had a great season last year but at the end of the year, he had some subpar results, losing to fritz twice at grand slams wasnt good, but apparently he carried some physical issues, we Will have to see.
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You’re right , imo Carlos needs to win Two slams or he will risk losing slam race to Sinner
 
TennisGrandpA said:
Do you still see Carlos having a better year than Zverev?
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At this stage of their careers they’re both accomplished enough that what matters for their career evaluation is large titles and the #1 ranking. So yeah, very easily imaginable if you don’t see Zverev winning a slam (I stopped believing in that a while ago) or getting the #1 ranking. I don’t think him ending at #2 ahead of Carlos would mean much tbh.
 
SpinToWin said:
At this stage of their careers they’re both accomplished enough that what matters for their career evaluation is large titles and the #1 ranking. So yeah, very easily imaginable if you don’t see Zverev winning a slam (I stopped believing in that a while ago) or getting the #1 ranking. I don’t think him ending at #2 ahead of Carlos would mean much tbh.
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I think Zverev can win a slam if somehow someone Knocks Sinner out
 
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