Adriano Panatta has a regret about Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.

Adriano Panatta, the last Italian to win the Internazionali d’Italia 50 years ago, in an interview with Il Messaggero spoke about Jannik Sinner and his so far perfect run at the Foto Italico: “Sinner is doing Sinner, nothing new on the horizon. He’s playing so well that he’s not having any problems, so I’m not surprised by what he’s achieving.”

The former Italian tennis player does have one regret, however: Carlos Alcaraz’s injury that deprived the Rome tournament of another spectacular duel between the two. “It is normal to miss Alcaraz, he and Sinner are the two clearly stronger tennis players on the circuit. So it’s normal that if one of the two is missing you lose a little bit of competition, you miss the challenges we’ve been used to seeing.”

“Alcaraz will be back at Wimbledon, we’ll see how things go. Unfortunately, injuries are now the order of the day with this modern tennis being so violent. Now we can’t say if the gap between the two on clay has narrowed, we’ll talk about that next year. Sinner’s win in Monte Carlo is honestly not enough to be able to say that, but what is certain is that Jannik also plays well on clay. Let’s remember that last year in Paris he had three match points.”

Lorenzo Musetti and Flavio Cobolli disappointed: “Lorenzo probably wasn’t well and Flavio felt too much pressure from the Foro Italico, but that’s normal. For some time now he has become much stronger than in the past and so the expectations on him have changed and it can happen, it happened to me too the first years when I had become stronger and had great difficulty playing at the Foro Italico, then with time I got unstuck.”