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"At the end of 2023, I said this year could be Sinner's year": Patrick Mouratoglou not shocked with Jannik Sinner winning Grand Slam title
ATPThursday, 01 February 2024 at 04:30
Tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou believes that 2024 might turn out to be the ‘year of Jannik Sinner’ after Italy’s tennis star’s recent success.
The 2022-year-old is often regarded as one of the most highly-rated players currently playing in the circuit along side Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz.
Sinner lived up to the hype in the recently concluded Australian Open where he lifted the title after beating the current world number three Russia’s Daniil Medvedev with a score of 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.
Mouratoglou was recently quoted in a report where he backed Sinner to outshine every other player currently playing in the men’s singles category this year.
“What was very impressive with Sinner is that he was able to play the match that we expected from him,” he said. “Novak was not there [in the semi-finals] but Sinner played the exact match he was supposed to play. When he played his first Grand Slam final, he was able to deliver, and do this until the end of the match—deliver his level. He could have choked a lot at the end. He did not choke.
“His level of play was very constant, and the quality of the tennis he was playing was extremely high, and high enough to win a Grand Slam. The only question mark was would he be able to deliver that in a Grand Slam final, and he gave the answer to that in the best possible way.
“He won the Davis Cup and that’s an incredible boost. It reminds me of 2011 for Novak. We had this discussion with Tony Roche at the Australian Open [in] 2011,” he said in an interview with Tennis Majors.
“We were discussing exactly the same topic: ‘who’s gonna play well this year?’ I don’t remember who I said, but I didn’t say Novak, and he said, ‘I think Djokovic is going to win, he’s going to be the one this year.’
“And I said, ‘why do you say that’. And he said, ‘because what he did at Davis Cup, winning for his country, being the guy that brought all the points. I think it’s an incredible boost of confidence for the next year.’
“And 2011 was the year of Novak. That’s the year that he really won most of everything. Beat Rafa – I don’t know how many times – even on clay several times. So that was his year. And I think it (2024) can be the year of Jannik. I think Novak has an edge, but I think he can play incredible this year.”
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