Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, currently ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the world, respectively, star in the I’ll mark the before and after In the history of tennis. In recent months, both have shared major titles on the track and their incredible performances have been commented on by great champions of the sport, such as Adriano Panatta.
However, the two-time Roland Garros winner and former world number four, in this case, He wanted to remove the iron to the Alcaraz-Sinner phenomenon and compared the current world of tennis to the world he himself experienced a few years ago competing with tennis players of great caliber. Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe or Guillermo Vilas.
“If you look at the world rankings in the 1970s, the top 10 in the rankings had won Grand Slam tournaments, that is, There was much more balance and the candidates could lose. Now, that doesn’t happen. “Alcaraz and Siner are very strong, but the style has become homogeneous,” said Banatta himself in an interview with Radio deejay.
Finally, Adriano admitted that years ago, tennis players played too much “More offensive” And they had other qualities that current players do not have: “On the one hand, Borg and Vilas always win when they play against tennis players of their level, like them…but when they did it against me or against McEnroe they lost because we played in a completely different way. Now everyone plays the same way and there are no strikers.”