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Carlos Alcaraz he equalized the score in the head-to-head matches – 4-4 – played against Jannik Sinner winning the semifinal of the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells. The BNP Paribas match proved to be a very important stage for the Spaniard who hadn’t won a tournament since the last edition of Wimbledon.
Alcaraz admitted that he had gone through a moment of slight decline. but that in California he has finally returned to having fun on the pitch. Alcaraz and Sinner have now demonstrated that they are by far the two greatest exponents of the new generation of tennis players and, according to Ivan Ljubicicthey will compete in the most important tournaments for many years.
Ivan Ljubicic: “Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will be the points of reference”
The former coach of Roger Federer gave an interesting interview to La Gazzetta dello Sport and analyzed the match won by Alcaraz at Indian Wells.
“On the other side of the net there is always an opponent, let’s not forget that. And in the case of Alcaraz, it is an opponent who has already won two Slams at the age of twenty. There are very few players who can put Sinner in difficulty, and it is not certain that the Spaniard’s winning Indian Wells tactics will bear the same fruits in the future, because Jannik will have found the adjustments”, said the Croatian.
“Jannik still has room for improvement and doesn’t need to distort himself: he will simply have to refine the details of his game. He is now a super player, the others need to find the right keys in a sustained way to beat him.
I think right now, waiting to see how he’s doing Novak Djokovic, Alcaraz and Sinner are ahead of all the others and will remain there in the coming years. They will be the points of reference“, concluded Ljubicic.
