Guido Monaco intervened in new daily appointment on the OA Sport YouTube channel Of TennisMania Special Italian Internationalshosted by Dario Puppo, in which the possible future dualism between the blue Jannik Sinner and the Spanish Carlos Alcarazfrom next Roland Garrosand the comparison with i most successful players of the past.
THE most successful tennis players who have alternated in history on the ATP circuit: “The other day, when Zverev reached the quarterfinals for the 28th time in a 1000, there was this ranking: Nadal 99, etc., and you could see that Berdych and Ferrer were in it at, like, 40. Berdych and Ferrer, two who have never won a Slam, made a final. In the history of tennis, the Open Era, from the 80s onwards, there was the domination of Borg, Paris-Wimbledon, there was Sampras, but never on all surfaces, no one. McEnroe, Connors, Lendl, were players who won many Slams, Becker-Edberg who shared Wimbledon, absolutely, but all round in every Slam the history of tennis does not say that Djokovic, Nadal and Federer is the norm, it is the absolute exception, just as the periods to which Roddick referred, with Hewitt, with Safin who could win Slams are a bit of an exception“.
On the possible future dualism between Sinner and Alcaraz: “Now although there is in the background this idea, and hope, that Sinner and Alcaraz will share a good part of the important tournaments in the coming years, and we will see others who will join, but the two of them, today we have Sinner who won the first Slam of the his life and had made a semi-final before, and Alcaraz who won two, surprising a bit at Wimbledon but let’s say he won two. All the others who now compete for the Slams, except Djokovic, have Medvedev a victory. Zverev zero, Tsitsipas zero, that is, we are really talking about a moment of great uncertainty, even turnover, because there is the feeling that Sinner and Alcaraz can, but then in reality in Paris for example neither of them won, Sinner did at most quarters, it’s obvious, it’s a different Sinner, but maybe something is starting, but it’s all to be written and these that have now come out in Rome, in my opinion, in the next 2 or 3 years, waiting for them to settle down well Alcaraz and Sinner must absolutely take advantage of this situation to bring home something important“.
Come on favorites for Roland Garros: “If Alcaraz and Sinner reach 85%, between 80% and 90% of their form, they are the two natural favourites, they still have a margin over the others. Zverev is proving to be the fittest one, and then all the other names are doing well, but this uncertainty is nice, in my opinion, it’s an added value after so many years of domination by the usual ones, it’s an added value, in my opinion, I don’t I would see a problem, then everyone sees it as they want obviously“.
