Andrey Rublev and the gap with Jannik Sinner: “We need realism.”
Andrey Rublev and the gap with Jannik Sinner: "Need realism"
Andrey Rublev in an interview with The National talked about his excellent 2023 closed in fifth place in the Atp ranking, although the gap between the top four, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner, è still sharp: "Need to be realistic".
"I have to realize that in many ways they are better than me. The realityè è that if I want to win more matches or if I want to play as I did against Novak in Paris-Bercy or Sinner in Vienna, matches in which the difference was in small details, I have to improve everything in which these players are better than me".
According to many insiders, Rublev lacks the last qualitative leap, especially mental, and the negative record of nine slam quarterfinals lost out of nine played è exemplifies this: "I didn't even know I was 0-9 in quarterfinals and the only player to have such a statistic, I didn't know, but it made me smile".
" At least I am the first in something – joked the Russian. È It is hard to see that you have nine chances and do not take advantage of any of them. Maybe the next quarterfinal could be the good one for me. It è not something I relax about, but in this case I am trying to look at this statistic in the right way".
