{"id":217921,"date":"2025-06-27T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217921\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:32:10","slug":"mats-wilander-says-what-people-need-to-start-understanding-about-jannik-sinner-and-carlos-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217921\/","title":{"rendered":"Mats Wilander says what people need to start understanding about Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz could continue their exciting rivalry at Wimbledon, the latest Grand Slam in the calendar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nick Kyrgios says Alcaraz is the favourite for Wimbledon<\/a>, where the Spaniard is the second seed behind Sinner.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Connors has told Sinner to block the outside noise<\/a> ahead of the Grand Slam, which gets underway at the end of June.<\/p>\n

Sinner<\/a> enters Wimbledon sitting top of the ATP Tour<\/a> rankings, with his rival Alcaraz<\/a> in second and Alexander Zverev in third.<\/p>\n

But it is Alcaraz who boasts a better history at the tournament, having won Wimbledon in both 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n

\"2025Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesMats Wilander says what must now be understood about Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner<\/p>\n

The pair only just played out the French Open final, which Alcaraz won after coming from behind to beat Sinner in a five-set thriller.<\/p>\n

Sharing his verdict on the pair, former world number one Mats Wilander<\/a> told TNT Sports<\/a>: \u201cIt took a while to digest and realise that that was most probably the best tennis match that I\u2019ve ever seen in terms of drama and in terms of the level.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, you can never count out Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for a couple of years at Wimbledon because they were intriguing in a very different way because of the contrast of styles.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> What Carlos Alcaraz does \u2018very differently\u2019 to every other player at Grand Slams which is really helping him win titles<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBut in terms of level, I must say this is most probably the best one. I think we have a rivalry just like the Federer-Nadal and Nadal-[Novak]Djokovic, where every single match that they play will be dramatic in some way. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe level will be so high that I think we\u2019re going to see it over and over again, and we\u2019re going to get used to it and just have to realise that this is a very, very special rivalry we have in front of us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have to start to understand that we are actually watching somebody who could become among the greatest players of all time in both Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the other thing that I really love is the way they\u2019re taking our game! It\u2019s not towards just keeping the ball in play. It\u2019s not towards just coming to the net on everything. It\u2019s being super aggressive all the time. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are certain players on tour that are not playing like that, and they have to reshape their game if they\u2019re going to stay with [them].<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Alcaraz and Sinner are taking it in a direction where it\u2019s never been before, and it\u2019s not coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mats Wilander makes Carlos Alcaraz prediction at Wimbledon after what happened at the French Open<\/p>\n

At the age of just 22, Alcaraz clinched his fifth career Grand Slam title at the French Open earlier this month.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s now won all five of his Grand Slam final appearances, with 23-year-old Sinner now holding a 3-1 win-loss record in that regard.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Who won in a practice challenge at Wimbledon when Jannik Sinner took on Aryna Sabalenka<\/a><\/p>\n

Together, they represent the last six Grand Slam champions, as well as winning seven of the last eight finals.<\/p>\n

But it is the Spaniard who is very much the man to beat at the next tournament, both given his history at SW19 and the fact he has just triumphed at Queen\u2019s.<\/p>\n\nYear<\/strong><\/td>\nWinner<\/strong><\/td>\nTournament<\/strong><\/td>\nRound<\/strong><\/td>\nSurface<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2025<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/td>\nFrench Open<\/td>\nFinal<\/td>\nOutdoor Clay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2025<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/td>\nATP Masters 1000 Rome<\/td>\nFinal<\/td>\nOutdoor Clay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2024<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/td>\nBeijing<\/td>\nFinal<\/td>\nOutdoor Hard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2024<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/td>\nRoland Garros<\/td>\nSemi-final<\/td>\nOutdoor Clay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2024<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/td>\nATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells<\/td>\nSemi-final<\/td>\nOutdoor Hard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2023<\/td>\nJannik Sinner<\/td>\nBeijing<\/td>\nSemi-final<\/td>\nOutdoor Hard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2023<\/td>\nJannik Sinner<\/td>\nATP Masters 1000 Miami<\/td>\nSemi-final<\/td>\nOutdoor Hard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2023<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/td>\nATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells<\/td>\nSemi-final<\/td>\nOutdoor Hard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/td>\nUS Open<\/td>\nQuarter-final<\/td>\nOutdoor Hard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022<\/td>\nJannik Sinner<\/td>\nUmag<\/td>\nFinal<\/td>\nOutdoor Clay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022<\/td>\nJannik Sinner<\/td>\nWimbledon<\/td>\nRound of 16<\/td>\nOutdoor Grass<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2021<\/td>\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/td>\nATP Masters 1000 Paris<\/td>\nRound of 32<\/td>\nIndoor Hard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner head-to-head<\/p>\n

Discussing Alcaraz\u2019s chances of further success at Wimbledon, seven-time Grand Slam champion Wilander said: \u201cI think it\u2019s a very positive vibe that he comes into Wimbledon with because he\u2019s won the French Open. And if he doesn\u2019t win Wimbledon, so what? <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember going to Wimbledon and having won the French Open. You\u2019re just so relaxed. And anything that happens at Wimbledon is a bonus.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s going to be very, very difficult to beat because he\u2019s proven now at last year\u2019s French Open finals and semis down two sets to one, and he comes back and he plays his best tennis. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s proven that he\u2019s going to play his best tennis when it means the most, and he\u2019s going to have the most fun when it means the least.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz could continue their exciting rivalry at Wimbledon, the latest Grand Slam in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4294,6359,4718,66295,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-217921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-jannik-sinner","11":"tag-mats-wilander","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114753932219698415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}