Official Sinner, the announcement everyone was fearing has just arrived

Sinner, the voice out of the chorus and that unexpected and long-feared announcement: now it’s official, here’s what will happen.

Neither Jannik Sinner and neither Carlos Alcaraz they like to hear about legacy. It flatters them, that’s for sure, but they prefer to assert their individuality rather than be assimilated to the heroes who wrote the most beautiful pages in the history of tennis. So much so that, every time someone launches into a comparison of this kind, they try to repeat and change the subject.

In the midst of a chorus of people who do nothing but designate them as successors of the various Djokovic, Federer and Nadal there are, however, those who think that there is a gulf between the two generations in question. That someone answers to the name of Claudio Pistolesiwho in recent days gave an interview to Fanpage speaking, precisely, of the old and the new guard.

And saying something that in some ways seemed new, or in any case very different from what everyone else, instead, has professed in the last two years. A voice out of the chorus, if you like, that offers a very interesting food for thought. As interesting as it will be to find out, in the future, whether the former tennis player, now coach, was right or not.

Never Like the Big 3: The Prophecy Looms Over Sinner and Alcaraz

His statement has the flavour of a prophecy: “I don’t think that either Alcaraz or Sinner will win more than 20 Slams, never say never, but it’s very very difficult”.

This is the bombshell dropped by Pistolesi, who with these words tacitly admitted that he is not yet ready for the generational change that is clearly taking place before everyone’s eyes. “Every era has its champions: Sinner and Alcaraz have shown that there is already a post Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, the monsters. Tennis moves forward, even if The three of them left a memorable mark, forever. With the addition of Andy Murray who was world number one with all three in full swing.”

The former world number 71 then underlined that the difference, in the case of the Big Three, was made by the mentality, the only common denominator between three very different players. A factor that we seemed to see, net of his prophecy, also in Sinner and Alcaraz. But that’s how it is: only time will tell who was right in this regard.