Rosset predicts smooth journey ahead for Alcaraz and Sinner

Former Olympic champion Marc Rosset believes that Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz and world number one Jannik Sinner have very little challenge ahead of them in the future. Both players are already regarded as two of the best players in men’s tennis, along with Serbia’s Novak Djokovic.

Rosset was recently quoted in a report expressing concern about a lack of future challenges for Alcaraz and Sinner. The 53-year-old believes that other players don’t have much time to figure out how to compete against these two because they will be left behind.

“For him [Alcaraz] to reach 30 Grand Slams, that would mean almost three titles per season for nine to ten years, without injury, without the arrival of very big rivals,” he said. “Afterwards, behind Sinner, I find that there is an abysmal void, with players who are too stereotypical. Alcaraz is today the only one who really does lots of different things, and I tell myself that he and Sinner could have a boulevard ahead of them. If the others do not ask themselves very quickly the right questions about what to add to their game, we should not then come and say: ‘We were unlucky.’”

Alcaraz and Sinner are having a fabulous season, winning all three Grand Slams. In January, the Italian tennis star clinched his main major title as he defeated Russia's Daniil Medvedev in a five-set thriller with a score of 3–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–3. Later in the French Open, it was Alcaraz’s turn to lift the title as he defeated Germany’s Alexander Zverev in the final in another five-set thrilling contest with a score of 6–3, 2–6, 5–7, 6–1, 6–2. In the recently concluded Wimbledon 2024, it was the Spaniard once again who lifted the title after beating former world number one Serbia’s legendary tennis star Novak Djokovic in the final in straight sets with a score of 6-2, 6-2, 7-6.