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Casper Ruud slams Jannik Sinner and reveals the mood on the circuit

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They have won nine of the last ten Grand Slam tournaments, this year they have faced each other in the finals six times: these are just some numbers of the impressive duopoly composed of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, the two players at the top of world tennis right now. Other rivals can&#8217t keep up with them, and in an interview Norwegian tennis player Casper Ruud revealed a certain impatience with the supremacy of the South Tyrolean and Murcian. “We always said that after the retirement of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic we would have a lot of new Slam champions, but instead this did not happen because of the two of them”.

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Bellucci then talked about the most impressive players on the circuit, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz
Bellucci has never played against Sinner on the ATP circuit, but instead faced Alcaraz at the US Open
"Carlos and Jannik on TV make an impression, but being on the court against them is much worse"

"There wasn’t a single aspect where I felt I was on par with Alcaraz"
"I didn’t know how to score points, how to stay hooked"
"With Carlos I thought ‘I don’t know what to do’, I never felt close tennis"
Even Novak Djokovic impressed Bellucci when they trained in New York
"I try to make the training useful for him, the pressure on him was so much"

"In terms of emotions and intensity it was a workout that made me better, stronger"

"Reaching that level of need against the strongest of all time… I never thought I would be in such a situation"

In the circuit there&#8217s a bit of frustration, as Ruud himself confesses: “It was really impressive and also a bit annoying to see how good both of them have become, but you have to accept it and try to do the best to beat them. We can talk all we want about the different eras, but Sinner and Alcaraz hit the ball with more speed than Federer, Djokovic and Nadal” are the words reported by Tennis365. “For example, Nadal always played full court on opponents’ forehands, but he was more effective on his backhand. Now we have Carlos and Jannik who have no weaknesses in any area of the court”.

Opponents cannot find the solutions: “The movement has taken Sinner to a higher level, you see him sliding and defending in any part of the court. And Carlos is the same, they basically defend like Djokovic, when you force them to defend they manage to come back to the’attack with one shot”. Ruud has lost all four matches he has played in his career against Jannik Sinner, while the record against Carlos Alcaraz has him 5-1. Jannik Sinner is also a nail-biter for Daniil Medvedev, who made his point in an interview: “I could train 10 hours a day and still not hit as hard as him”.

“When he and Alcaraz are on a day, and they have a lot of them, there&#8217s no chance for us. I know that even if they are strong they can lose sometimes. For example, Jannik lost in Halle to Bublik and Carlos at the U.S. Open to Van de Zandschulp”.

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