@@berlusmafia I wish he's competitive ! But he'll not be the favourite with any of these guys ! He doesn't have the experience and his hot streak will cool off whether you like it or not ! The good example is Carlos last year after Wimbledon, he cooled off ! You think Sinner will be any different !?
From man vs boy against Alcaraz to boy vs man against Sinner. Still a great tournament for Dimitrov (fun to see!), but Sinner is a machine, on his own level right now. Just amazing.
Tennis fans are always prisoners of the moment. We're worse than fans of any other sport in this regard (other than maybe combat sports). Sinner is playing really well right now. Better than anyone at the moment. In the long run though, my money is firmly on Alcaraz to be the better overall player.
Huge carlito fan , and yeah sinner will never ever have carlito s touch or shotmaking but he ll always imo be the cleaner ball striker and more consistent player@@sandman1347
@@sandman1347 absolutely disagree with this. Main reason being their style of stroke play. Sinner is the more measured player, he has a lower chance of hitting winners, but higher chance of keeping the ball in play and wearing down opponents. Alcaraz takes more risks, going for big winners. Meaning his ceiling is maybe higher because when things go well, he will be unplayable. But when you consider an entire career, Sinner is more likely to be consistently playing good tennis and winning big matches, whereas Alcaraz is more likely to have some ups and downs. IMHO
@@aldobonaso3481 I can respect your opinion on this, however, what I think is far more likely is that Carlos will reign in his aggression with age and maturity and properly calibrate his risk/reward mechanism. I think Carlos does indeed have the higher ceiling and, as such, will eventually be the better overall player. Right now Sinner is more disciplined, more mature and is (somewhat surprisingly because Sinner was a late starter in tennis) more the finished product than Carlos.
Sinner plays a baseline game right now nearly perfect similar to the best Novak, both drive and backhand are equally strong with also amazing service return.
Even better than Novak at times because he is so offensive and yet error free. Novak makes you run and make mistakes but Sinner takes the racket out of your hand. On hard courts, his style is hard to match. We will have to wait and see how he fares on natural surfaces.
@@Roman-cv2pd i dont think he's that much off from prime novak. Obviously prime novak lasted incredibly long, so we'll see how long sinner will keep his courrent form (the clay season will be an interesting test imo).
Better than novak djokovic in term of starting his tennis career, but wouldn't he survive after 30 years old? Let's see if sinner won't end up like sampras and federer in term of no. 1 duration
Re the AO hangover (lack of). Cahill said that Sinner and his team focus on particular hurdles - i.e how to beat Medvedev, how to add variety, how to win a 500, etc. I think that is the key for him.
I was surprised by how many errors Dimitrov made, even giving breakpoints and 40-15 games as a gift to Sinner. It looked like his mind crumbled under pressure, this was not the Dimitrov who beat Alcaraz with fewer errors on the backhand.
Runner up never seems to get any credit ! Nobody will remember second place ! You leave a mark in this sport only by winning titles, not by making finals ! One step short will leave you out of the history books !
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The only players that managed to defeat Sinner decisively on hard courts are Djokovic at the ATP Finals and Alcaraz in Indian Wells. I'm excited to see how Sinner 2.0 will behave on clay, and the reaction of other players.
The problem is Sinnet is a skier, and he loves speed and all the players Keep trying to hit harder to him which helps him. Alcaraz beat him last time with some high loop shots and some very slow deep slices. You have to SLOW things down if you want to be in Sinner in my view, and I don't think anybody understands that except maybe Carlos and his team.
You said it right, "maybe"... the first set against Alcaraz Sinner had won 6 to 1, then in the other two sets it wasn't clear how much Alcaraz's merits or Sinner's problems were, we'll see how it goes in theirs upcoming clashes
Sinner 2024 is starting to look similar to Djokovic 2011, player thereabouts going up many levels and becoming the best player in the world, long year to go, but he is sensational right now.
Gill, i'm a huge fan of your work for the past 5 years or so ! Did it crossed through your mind that potentially the same thing that happened to Carlitos last year could happen to Sinner this year and that's to have a tremendous first 6 months of the season and then a huge dropoff simply because he can't go a full season just yet at this present pace !??
It sounds as tho you have written off Alcaraz, even tho to this point he has accomplished significantly more than Sinner on both clay and grass, despite being the younger player. It's true he has a lot of points to defend, but I think he's capable of it.
is fun that everytime Sinner wins a tournament you have to deal with the name of Alcaraz but never the opposite, on clay surely Carlos have a better play, but on grass the level is equal this year,, let's see
Sinner has a lot less points to defend for the rest of the year until after the US Open. It is basically impossible for Alcaraz to catch up at this point.
Only if you assume that Alcaraz will not be able to defend points he won last year (or actually gain extra points in some events) and that Sinner maintains the form he has shown on hard courts on clay and grass. Remember, Sinner now leads Alcaraz by only 65 points.
@@jblack7159 Alcaraz has a chance to gain some points from Monte Carlo and Rome but he has to defend Madrid and Barcelona and Sinner’s performance at RG last year was pretty bad so Sinner will gain a ton of points just from getting to the semifinal there.
Miami final wasn't Sinner's best... he served under 60% and still dominated. Looking forward to seeing what happens when Jannik does play his best -- whew! Popcorn is at the ready.
All the people who were crowing about the Return of the One-Handed Backhand after the Alcaraz match need to watch this. As always, great analysis, Gil. i never miss a show.
The only thing you can read into this win is that Sinner is the best player in the world. It says nothing about one handed backhands, unless you want to dismiss the two top 10 wins that came before this loss for Dimitrov.
@@charlesfaure1189That’s the game plan against every one handed backhand player, and yet, Dimitrov played his way into a masters 1000 final. He just lost to the best player in the world
@@Tennis214 You have just made my point and followed up by stating what I obviously already know and has no effect on that point. Coco Gauff is 3 in the world. That doesn't justify her bad forehand.
@@charlesfaure1189Dimitrov is 4-2 against top 10 players this year and has like 10 top 10 wins in the past year. It’s sinners backhand in particular which is superior but very very few players have that. Grigor beat Zverev who has one of the best two handers mostly because Grigor’s forehand is far superior and Zverev’s return is not as good as Sinner’s. Sinner has a solid forehand as well which makes him very complete and in his current form very difficult to find a weakness. It shows absolutely nothing about the OHBH. Sinner beat Medvedev 6:1 6:2 if you remember
@@gabrielagent20 well he's still going to be one of the favorites to win every tournament that he enters clay or not. On top of that he has (for his standard) very little points to defend during the clay season
Why laugh !? I still believe that Alcaraz will win more ! Sinner will probably be a one surface top guy but Alcaraz's game is suited to run this game on all 3 !
There's a quiet reality to Sinner's defensive, horizontal play--it's effective but boring, much like that of Djokovic. Sinner should stick with what works, but he shouldn't be surprised if his fan base is never quite as big or loud as he thought it might be.
Do you know what he thinks or feels about his fan base? If he cared that much about it, he would play for the audience more. It is pretty easy to do that you know? But still, at every match he played, he has a strong support at the court. In Rotterdam, people supported him as much as local players. He is basically a hero in his country at 22. When he won AO, everybody (especially his fellow players) swarmed to him with congratulations. I think he is more surprised with the support he has and happy about it.
@@gugendir Sinner seems like a good guy, and he probably is happy with his level of support. My point was broader, and gets a bit to why Djokovic (and his fans) may show frustration sometimes at not being as admired as the other members of the Big Three, despite having won more major titles. If a player's primary strategy is to stay on the baseline and outlast the opponent, that is usually just not as interesting as a strategy involving taking some initiative once in a while. Sinner rarely takes the initiative, not only because he doesn't have to, but because he probably wouldn't do as well if he did.
@@br1729 He is smart and finds the best and most efficient ways to win the game, those ways can change/develop in the future, he has more variety already. You seem to decide that he will stay as the same player for the next 5-10 years when he isn’t even the same player as 6 months ago. I don’t even know how he will be at next year AO, good for you if you can guess his whole career already. And I don’t think there is any similarities between Jannik and Novak except some parts of their game. They cannot be more different personality wise, on court behaviors etc.and that can affect people’s perceptions. I just saw Holger Rune’s tweet to Jannik, congratulating him for Miami and how he inspires him. If you become an inspiration at 22, I think you are doing pretty well.
@@gugendir Sinner may change, but he will be changing from a very defensive base. Look at the Miami Open statistics. For the top-4 seeds + Dimitrov, Sinner averaged the fewest net approaches, at 10.3. Alcaraz, who is younger than Sinner and thus has had less time to "change/develop," averaged 21.5. It is highly unlikely that Sinner will change his style of play to close this gap, no matter how long he plays. I don’t care about personalities that much, except insofar as they affect styles of play. Sinner seems like a good guy, but he rarely takes the initiative in points, because he doesn’t have to. That is Sinner’s key similarity with Djokovic, especially when Djokovic was younger and able to run down every shot to wear out his opponent.
Sinner was a wall iin that match, Grigor deserved better, he attacked and probably went too often to the net...that's tennis sadly...the good news for Sinner is he can defend really well, a bit like Novak (but well Novak is another level)
We should compare sinner with 22 yr old novak, not with nowdays novak. I mean, sinner can improve a lot, just like novak, dimitrov, nadal etc did in time.
He had to come in sometimes, he has a great net game while his groundies are not as consistent as Sinner's, and he's also not built for grinding. He's very agile and explosive but not really an endurance athlete. To be fair, Sinner always came up with killer passing shots as Gil pointed out here.
@@bbsoni4814 maybe but being dominant doesn't buy you anything unless you hit a winner or your opponent misses! When neither is likely to happen, and you don't want to overhit from the baseline, a net approach may be your best bet!
Dimitrov did his best but Sinner’s defense was genuinely insane. This was a scary performance from Sinner and a warning to other top players. If he can defend like this on fast hard, good luck everyone else. Sinner is a different breed right now and he’ll be #1 pretty soon. Also don’t rule out his ability to win a clay court Masters; Monte Carlo is a good candidate, or Rome with home court advantage.
This year is going to special for Sinner and Alcarez hopefully I got a feeling they are going to blow for blow like Evander and Bowe all year and they will do a documentary on this season someday… screenshot this
You are not too far from the truth, the secret is that he has the best in the world in his corner: Darren Cahill, this guy is designing his game and studying his opponents. The other big factor is his psychologist, Ricardo Ceccarelli, who designed an experimental machine for mind training, which Sinner use religiously.....this is why he is so calm and focused, the machine is working wonders. Everything about Jannicks game has Bern designed for success. Other players are years behind in the use of technology and methods.
Sinner is clutch, I.e. his game level rises proportionally to the importance of the point. Could you comment on how quickly he hits the ball? It seems that opponents get overwhelmed by how quickly (on the rise) he hits the ball (similar to Federer) and combined with his power, the balls arrive at warp speed all the time.
I’m italian and a Sinner supporter and I agree pretty much with everything you said. I’m just concern that on clay is a little bit less effective and he’s going to have a lot more opponents
way too early to say sinner will be no1 heading into us open. He was the most under rated player on tour now people might be getting carried away. i cant see him winning RG, so wimby will be key. 1300 points is 1 poor showing at a major/one major victory. don't write novak/alcaraz off.
Sinner probably won’t make n.1 don’t get me wrong. He is incredible . But clay is really not in his wheel house. And there is every chance Djokovic takes RG and tournaments in the run up to it.
Sinner is basically guaranteed to do better in the clay season than he did last year and that is all he needs to catch up to Djokovic. Sinner has troubled the best clay court players on clay, he can get to finals and semifinals and win titles on clay. Sinner was also injured in some of the clay season last year.
@@westonmeyer3110 it so entertaining to watch people treating Sinner as a hard court player only, maybe hoping that he will suck when the clay season starts, completely disregarding his previous RG and W performances. No one has any idea how 2024 version Sinner will perform on clay and grass, I think he will create more problems to usual favorites than people give him credit to and the rude awakening will be delicious to watch😎
@@gugendir absolutely agree, he is gearing up for an assault on all fronts this year, and clay is something I think he would have targeted because it suits his movement style...he's going to be dangerous all year if he stays fit!
@@aldobonaso3481 He keeps saying that "he has couple of things to improve" and it is clearly for clay and grass seasons since he ate everything on hard court. He is still developing as a player, that is the scary part😃 If he continues to develop like he has been until now, I honestly don’t know what his limits will be…Nobody does atm.
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Djokovic isn't ashleigh barty who was lazy cuz she was still young and world no.1, but she announced early retirement so she let swiatek dominate alone. The time for his retirement will surely come, but he still has a few weeks for his rest of tennis career. Remember! Nobody wants to get older even though we can never avoid that!@@leominerva3494
@@leominerva3494 You obviously haven't followed Novak's career thus far ! When people doubt him, when he's got a point to prove, that's when he becomes the most dangerous player with no limits ! After a sensational 2023 he got content and relaxed but if people discount him already after only 3 months of bad results than you're basically giving him fuel and reason to prove you once again wrong, he still got a long way before hanging the racket !
Dimitrov played as well as he was allowed to play. Sinner made all the low percentage shots 100% of the time, especially down the line. Moreover, the steal rate was almost 50% for Sinner meaning he won 50% of the points when Dimitrov had the upper hand in rallies
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Initially, Dimi seemed to bring the same level he did in the Alcaraz match. Sinner was able to chip away at it with his solidity. What a match!
Sinner knows the strategies so well ...
Nobody can resists if Jannik plays at this level
Just wait until your boy crumbles on clay against Carlitos or Novak ! Potentially against a return to form Rafa !
@@gabrielagent20 you wish!
@@berlusmafia I wish he's competitive ! But he'll not be the favourite with any of these guys ! He doesn't have the experience and his hot streak will cool off whether you like it or not ! The good example is Carlos last year after Wimbledon, he cooled off ! You think Sinner will be any different !?
From man vs boy against Alcaraz to boy vs man against Sinner. Still a great tournament for Dimitrov (fun to see!), but Sinner is a machine, on his own level right now. Just amazing.
Tennis fans are always prisoners of the moment. We're worse than fans of any other sport in this regard (other than maybe combat sports). Sinner is playing really well right now. Better than anyone at the moment. In the long run though, my money is firmly on Alcaraz to be the better overall player.
Huge carlito fan , and yeah sinner will never ever have carlito s touch or shotmaking but he ll always imo be the cleaner ball striker and more consistent player@@sandman1347
@@sandman1347 absolutely disagree with this. Main reason being their style of stroke play. Sinner is the more measured player, he has a lower chance of hitting winners, but higher chance of keeping the ball in play and wearing down opponents. Alcaraz takes more risks, going for big winners. Meaning his ceiling is maybe higher because when things go well, he will be unplayable. But when you consider an entire career, Sinner is more likely to be consistently playing good tennis and winning big matches, whereas Alcaraz is more likely to have some ups and downs. IMHO
@@aldobonaso3481totally agree, Sinner will most surely have a better career than Alcaraz
@@aldobonaso3481 I can respect your opinion on this, however, what I think is far more likely is that Carlos will reign in his aggression with age and maturity and properly calibrate his risk/reward mechanism. I think Carlos does indeed have the higher ceiling and, as such, will eventually be the better overall player. Right now Sinner is more disciplined, more mature and is (somewhat surprisingly because Sinner was a late starter in tennis) more the finished product than Carlos.
Sinner plays a baseline game right now nearly perfect similar to the best Novak, both drive and backhand are equally strong with also amazing service return.
Even better than Novak at times because he is so offensive and yet error free. Novak makes you run and make mistakes but Sinner takes the racket out of your hand. On hard courts, his style is hard to match. We will have to wait and see how he fares on natural surfaces.
@@krishnaramachandran7722 prime novak still better tho
Yes, a lot of similarities, but the most is the running open stance backhand in defense or in passing shots.
@@Roman-cv2pd i dont think he's that much off from prime novak. Obviously prime novak lasted incredibly long, so we'll see how long sinner will keep his courrent form (the clay season will be an interesting test imo).
Better than novak djokovic in term of starting his tennis career, but wouldn't he survive after 30 years old? Let's see if sinner won't end up like sampras and federer in term of no. 1 duration
So entertaining was this match! And Sinner was simply a machine executing his game plan!
Sinner plays like a surgeon…with immense precision! He will be world no. 1 this year no doubt!
He loves speed. That's why he's getting better and better because everybody keeps trying to overpower him and he enjoys more speed.
Sinner played amazing he was brilliant congratulations to him Gill another great analysis your the best 👏👏👏👏❤️🥇
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Jannik is very calm..humble and smart player ....im a Filipino but i love your analysis. im a fan of Jannik..thank you for your channel
Sinner always said he was learning from his opponent whom he beat while the players trying to figure out or learn how to beat him
Such a deep and detailed analisys, agreed all, Jannick is now simply a winning machine
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Re the AO hangover (lack of). Cahill said that Sinner and his team focus on particular hurdles - i.e how to beat Medvedev, how to add variety, how to win a 500, etc. I think that is the key for him.
What a nice profound detailed analysis! You are the best thanks!❤
0 backhand unforced errors is crazy, right call against dimitrov, not looking for winners there just choking him in his opponent's weaker side
your analisis sees everything and your pace and expression its amazing, thanks man
Smokinnnnn' Sinner! Thanx Gill. Cheers, Milan
Very good analysis. Sinner does his homework, no doubt.
Just a master class, Gill, thank you.
The mental aspect Gill. This kid is unphased. Strong front runner.
until yesterday, all the tennis commentators on UA-cam said that Dimitrov could easily beat Jannick! we saw how it ended!🤷🏻♂️
Nobody said that
Super detailed analysis! Thank you so much.
He is very com and focus
I was surprised by how many errors Dimitrov made, even giving breakpoints and 40-15 games as a gift to Sinner. It looked like his mind crumbled under pressure, this was not the Dimitrov who beat Alcaraz with fewer errors on the backhand.
No congrats for Dimitrov's performance leading to this final Gil?
Runner up never seems to get any credit ! Nobody will remember second place ! You leave a mark in this sport only by winning titles, not by making finals ! One step short will leave you out of the history books !
The way of playing also matters. Congrats to Dimi for nice & entertaining tennis!
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The only players that managed to defeat Sinner decisively on hard courts are Djokovic at the ATP Finals and Alcaraz in Indian Wells. I'm excited to see how Sinner 2.0 will behave on clay, and the reaction of other players.
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Excellent analysis Gill. Thanks
The problem is Sinnet is a skier, and he loves speed and all the players Keep trying to hit harder to him which helps him. Alcaraz beat him last time with some high loop shots and some very slow deep slices. You have to SLOW things down if you want to be in Sinner in my view, and I don't think anybody understands that except maybe Carlos and his team.
You said it right, "maybe"... the first set against Alcaraz Sinner had won 6 to 1, then in the other two sets it wasn't clear how much Alcaraz's merits or Sinner's problems were, we'll see how it goes in theirs upcoming clashes
Sinner 2024 is starting to look similar to Djokovic 2011, player thereabouts going up many levels and becoming the best player in the world, long year to go, but he is sensational right now.
Sinner is amazing but at the moment I enjoy Dimitrov's tennis the most.
Gill, i'm a huge fan of your work for the past 5 years or so ! Did it crossed through your mind that potentially the same thing that happened to Carlitos last year could happen to Sinner this year and that's to have a tremendous first 6 months of the season and then a huge dropoff simply because he can't go a full season just yet at this present pace !??
I like it, why can't you use videos?
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@@GillGrossuse some trick like reverse the video like at the mirror and fo the copyright :)
It sounds as tho you have written off Alcaraz, even tho to this point he has accomplished significantly more than Sinner on both clay and grass, despite being the younger player. It's true he has a lot of points to defend, but I think he's capable of it.
is fun that everytime Sinner wins a tournament you have to deal with the name of Alcaraz but never the opposite, on clay surely Carlos have a better play, but on grass the level is equal this year,, let's see
Sinner has a lot less points to defend for the rest of the year until after the US Open.
It is basically impossible for Alcaraz to catch up at this point.
Only if you assume that Alcaraz will not be able to defend points he won last year (or actually gain extra points in some events) and that Sinner maintains the form he has shown on hard courts on clay and grass. Remember, Sinner now leads Alcaraz by only 65 points.
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Alcaraz has a chance to gain some points from Monte Carlo and Rome but he has to defend Madrid and Barcelona and Sinner’s performance at RG last year was pretty bad so Sinner will gain a ton of points just from getting to the semifinal there.
I hope we get to see Sinner vs Rafa on clay.
Miami final wasn't Sinner's best... he served under 60% and still dominated. Looking forward to seeing what happens when Jannik does play his best -- whew! Popcorn is at the ready.
so dimi got djokovic'ed
All the people who were crowing about the Return of the One-Handed Backhand after the Alcaraz match need to watch this. As always, great analysis, Gil. i never miss a show.
The only thing you can read into this win is that Sinner is the best player in the world. It says nothing about one handed backhands, unless you want to dismiss the two top 10 wins that came before this loss for Dimitrov.
@@alexanderminuzzo4839 It was his backhand that Sinner was targeting. Over and over and over. And over. And over.
@@charlesfaure1189That’s the game plan against every one handed backhand player, and yet, Dimitrov played his way into a masters 1000 final. He just lost to the best player in the world
@@Tennis214 You have just made my point and followed up by stating what I obviously already know and has no effect on that point. Coco Gauff is 3 in the world. That doesn't justify her bad forehand.
@@charlesfaure1189Dimitrov is 4-2 against top 10 players this year and has like 10 top 10 wins in the past year. It’s sinners backhand in particular which is superior but very very few players have that. Grigor beat Zverev who has one of the best two handers mostly because Grigor’s forehand is far superior and Zverev’s return is not as good as Sinner’s. Sinner has a solid forehand as well which makes him very complete and in his current form very difficult to find a weakness. It shows absolutely nothing about the OHBH. Sinner beat Medvedev 6:1 6:2 if you remember
To say Sinner will be the #1 seed at the USO is being unnecessarily conservative. I think Sinner will be #1 after RG already. Maybe even earlier...
You must be forgetting that clay season it's coming up and Sinner's game doesn't bode to well on that surface with the likes of Novak and Carlitos !
Im hoping for some epics on the clay. Not a surface I particularly like to watch but curious to see how the Alcaraz sinner Djokovic dynamic develops.
@@gabrielagent20 well he's still going to be one of the favorites to win every tournament that he enters clay or not. On top of that he has (for his standard) very little points to defend during the clay season
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Weakvak would have gotten punished too😂😂😂 GOATdal would have punked him and made him feel like a 10 year old 😂
You should be a comedian. Never heard of goatdal in my life.
Oooh you've come out of your cave Goldie! Loooong time no see.
Media in 2022/23 - Who will win the most slams in the next decade? Alcaraz
Media in 2024🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why laugh !? I still believe that Alcaraz will win more ! Sinner will probably be a one surface top guy but Alcaraz's game is suited to run this game on all 3 !
@@gabrielagent20 well the media did it’s job! Congrats!
This guy so slow.
Put this video in x1.25 or x1.5 you are welcome.
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No you weren't
There's a quiet reality to Sinner's defensive, horizontal play--it's effective but boring, much like that of Djokovic. Sinner should stick with what works, but he shouldn't be surprised if his fan base is never quite as big or loud as he thought it might be.
Do you know what he thinks or feels about his fan base? If he cared that much about it, he would play for the audience more. It is pretty easy to do that you know? But still, at every match he played, he has a strong support at the court. In Rotterdam, people supported him as much as local players. He is basically a hero in his country at 22. When he won AO, everybody (especially his fellow players) swarmed to him with congratulations. I think he is more surprised with the support he has and happy about it.
@@gugendir Sinner seems like a good guy, and he probably is happy with his level of support. My point was broader, and gets a bit to why Djokovic (and his fans) may show frustration sometimes at not being as admired as the other members of the Big Three, despite having won more major titles. If a player's primary strategy is to stay on the baseline and outlast the opponent, that is usually just not as interesting as a strategy involving taking some initiative once in a while. Sinner rarely takes the initiative, not only because he doesn't have to, but because he probably wouldn't do as well if he did.
@@br1729 He is smart and finds the best and most efficient ways to win the game, those ways can change/develop in the future, he has more variety already. You seem to decide that he will stay as the same player for the next 5-10 years when he isn’t even the same player as 6 months ago. I don’t even know how he will be at next year AO, good for you if you can guess his whole career already. And I don’t think there is any similarities between Jannik and Novak except some parts of their game. They cannot be more different personality wise, on court behaviors etc.and that can affect people’s perceptions. I just saw Holger Rune’s tweet to Jannik, congratulating him for Miami and how he inspires him. If you become an inspiration at 22, I think you are doing pretty well.
@@gugendir Sinner may change, but he will be changing from a very defensive base. Look at the Miami Open statistics. For the top-4 seeds + Dimitrov, Sinner averaged the fewest net approaches, at 10.3. Alcaraz, who is younger than Sinner and thus has had less time to "change/develop," averaged 21.5. It is highly unlikely that Sinner will change his style of play to close this gap, no matter how long he plays. I don’t care about personalities that much, except insofar as they affect styles of play. Sinner seems like a good guy, but he rarely takes the initiative in points, because he doesn’t have to. That is Sinner’s key similarity with Djokovic, especially when Djokovic was younger and able to run down every shot to wear out his opponent.
Sinner was a wall iin that match, Grigor deserved better, he attacked and probably went too often to the net...that's tennis sadly...the good news for Sinner is he can defend really well, a bit like Novak (but well Novak is another level)
Sinner is the wall that Novak will be hitting soon. He’s already beat him twice recently.
We should compare sinner with 22 yr old novak, not with nowdays novak. I mean, sinner can improve a lot, just like novak, dimitrov, nadal etc did in time.
He had to come in sometimes, he has a great net game while his groundies are not as consistent as Sinner's, and he's also not built for grinding. He's very agile and explosive but not really an endurance athlete. To be fair, Sinner always came up with killer passing shots as Gil pointed out here.
@@al1976-v7m yeah but in the rallies, Dimitrov was dominant unntil he went to the net and got passed by yannick
@@bbsoni4814 maybe but being dominant doesn't buy you anything unless you hit a winner or your opponent misses! When neither is likely to happen, and you don't want to overhit from the baseline, a net approach may be your best bet!
Dimitrov played well, really well, but Sinner had every answer with interest. Flawless. Overwhelming.
Dimitrov did his best but Sinner’s defense was genuinely insane. This was a scary performance from Sinner and a warning to other top players. If he can defend like this on fast hard, good luck everyone else. Sinner is a different breed right now and he’ll be #1 pretty soon. Also don’t rule out his ability to win a clay court Masters; Monte Carlo is a good candidate, or Rome with home court advantage.
Always enjoy your analysis Gill
That performance so impressive for third time the winner on miami 🏆🎉 congratulations jannik world italy no2👏🇮🇹
He has been the winner just this year, the last two was the runner up.
@@spacekomet8376 will see that🥱
@@spacekomet8376 will see that🥱
This year is going to special for Sinner and Alcarez hopefully I got a feeling they are going to blow for blow like Evander and Bowe all year and they will do a documentary on this season someday… screenshot this
Sinner and alcaraz are part of the next generation, but djokovic is part of that generation too!
Starting to believe that this Jannik Sinner is AI generated he is literally perfect!
You are not too far from the truth, the secret is that he has the best in the world in his corner: Darren Cahill, this guy is designing his game and studying his opponents. The other big factor is his psychologist, Ricardo Ceccarelli, who designed an experimental machine for mind training, which Sinner use religiously.....this is why he is so calm and focused, the machine is working wonders.
Everything about Jannicks game has Bern designed for success. Other players are years behind in the use of technology and methods.
Sin-sa-tional..Yannik.🎉
Sinner is clutch, I.e. his game level rises proportionally to the importance of the point. Could you comment on how quickly he hits the ball? It seems that opponents get overwhelmed by how quickly (on the rise) he hits the ball (similar to Federer) and combined with his power, the balls arrive at warp speed all the time.
Thank you so much for this great analysis! Congrats to Jannik! 🎉
Nice video makes us understand tennis better as well
WINNER !!!!
Dimitrov (love him) was destroyed by what he created
Thanks, Gill...great analysis!
He can beat anybody
I’m italian and a Sinner supporter and I agree pretty much with everything you said. I’m just concern that on clay is a little bit less effective and he’s going to have a lot more opponents
I've been waiting for you since after the game ...
Gill, re the approach needing to be lower and shorter, how would that have helped Dimitrov?
Meanwhile djoko must have figured the carrot out
Do people forget Alcaraz?
Surely his fanboys never forget him (and they evoke him even when he had nothing to do with it)
36-week no. 1 since his age of 19.
way too early to say sinner will be no1 heading into us open. He was the most under rated player on tour now people might be getting carried away. i cant see him winning RG, so wimby will be key. 1300 points is 1 poor showing at a major/one major victory. don't write novak/alcaraz off.
Sinner probably won’t make n.1 don’t get me wrong. He is incredible . But clay is really not in his wheel house. And there is every chance Djokovic takes RG and tournaments in the run up to it.
Sinner is basically guaranteed to do better in the clay season than he did last year and that is all he needs to catch up to Djokovic.
Sinner has troubled the best clay court players on clay, he can get to finals and semifinals and win titles on clay.
Sinner was also injured in some of the clay season last year.
@@westonmeyer3110 it so entertaining to watch people treating Sinner as a hard court player only, maybe hoping that he will suck when the clay season starts, completely disregarding his previous RG and W performances. No one has any idea how 2024 version Sinner will perform on clay and grass, I think he will create more problems to usual favorites than people give him credit to and the rude awakening will be delicious to watch😎
@@gugendir absolutely agree, he is gearing up for an assault on all fronts this year, and clay is something I think he would have targeted because it suits his movement style...he's going to be dangerous all year if he stays fit!
Well, he has beaten Alcaraz in a clay final and Zverev at RG before. So, he’s not that bad of a clay player
@@aldobonaso3481 He keeps saying that "he has couple of things to improve" and it is clearly for clay and grass seasons since he ate everything on hard court. He is still developing as a player, that is the scary part😃 If he continues to develop like he has been until now, I honestly don’t know what his limits will be…Nobody does atm.
I find him boring but he's very effective. He and Swiatek are very similar
What do you want the loud screams...?Jannik is super class ...calm and smart
@@JovanCepe Never get the casual fans with that type of player
@@vivahernando1I’m a hard core tennis fan and find both Sinner/Swiatek yawnsville 🥱
Except Sinner can serve.
Sinner has some of the highest groundstroke speeds on tour? What about him is boring?
If Carlos played Sinner he might of win, so how it comes that Dimitrov can win Carlos kinda easily and has no chance against Sinner?
I think the difference is that Carlos got demoralised, and was rushed. Sinner doesn't get rushed as easily.
- Old generation: Novak Djokovic
- New generation: Novak Djokovic
- Next generation: Novak Djokovic
Djokovic may not last any longer due to age factor, by he is still number 1 and you can't deny him!
A couple more months but only for the points accumulated. No one denies Nole's greatness but it's time for retirement.
Djokovic isn't ashleigh barty who was lazy cuz she was still young and world no.1, but she announced early retirement so she let swiatek dominate alone. The time for his retirement will surely come, but he still has a few weeks for his rest of tennis career. Remember! Nobody wants to get older even though we can never avoid that!@@leominerva3494
@@wimzswimz9843I'm not speaking badly of Nole, he's the best of all time but sooner or later you have to pay the ticket to Mr. Time!
@@leominerva3494 You obviously haven't followed Novak's career thus far ! When people doubt him, when he's got a point to prove, that's when he becomes the most dangerous player with no limits ! After a sensational 2023 he got content and relaxed but if people discount him already after only 3 months of bad results than you're basically giving him fuel and reason to prove you once again wrong, he still got a long way before hanging the racket !
@@leominerva3494 Do you think he is ashleigh barty who is lazy? Why should he announce retire when he still can extend his no. 1 for a few weeks more?
Sinner played his usual game. Dmitrov was floppy and made too many mistakes.
Dimitrov played as well as he was allowed to play. Sinner made all the low percentage shots 100% of the time, especially down the line. Moreover, the steal rate was almost 50% for Sinner meaning he won 50% of the points when Dimitrov had the upper hand in rallies
Floscio lo ha fatto diventare sinner.era partito bene ma lo ha demolito