Stefano Pescosolido warns Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz: "Beware of the third wheel…"
The rivalry between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, the respective improvements at the level of play and the approach of both of them in front of difficulties are certainly the most debated topics among insiders when it comes to contemporary tennis.
Speaking in connection with Sky Sport, Stefano Pescosolido offered his view talking about the two outliers, who in Monte Carlo showed, beyond the discourse merely related to results, that they are the two men to beat in the ATP circuit.
“I really liked Jannik against Auger-Aliassime,” said the former tennis player born in 1971, now a coach. He never took any particular risks, used the short ball very well in extended exchanges, and served very well, a fundamental in which he continues to improve. His adaptation to the clay, then, is really good, in spite of the variables imposed by the weather: on a sunny day the balls are faster, if it is overcast instead the game is forcedly slowed down. But he has already shown that he is ready for any eventuality.”
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Being the top two players in the world now for some time, Sinner and Alcaraz can now face each other only in the finals. Individual tournaments thus become a long distance challenge, as is happening in Monte Carlo. “There is a lot of respect between Jannik and Carlos,” Pescosolido said, “and in my opinion the ranking is not a factor that weighs more heavily in the rivalry. We are talking about two players who are writing the history of tennis, two players who in the few moments of difficulty they have always know how to respond as champions.”
In this context it is difficult to find a real third wheel but Pescosolido has one name in mind, that of Joao Fonseca: “He has grown so much in these months, and then recently he met Sinner in Indian Wells, Alcaraz in Miami and Zverev in Monte Carlo. He lost all three matches but he really played it even. He is also more continuous now and is filing down weaknesses: the leap forward seems really close.”
