Rafael Nadal’s uncle accepts Novak Djokovic is as of now not a danger to Carlos Alcaraz.
Rafael Nadal’s uncle Toni accepts there is just a single player fit for matching up to Carlos Alcaraz following his Wimbledon win over Novak Djokovic. The youthful Spaniard floated to a second consecutive SW19 title without dropping a set and was superior to Djokovic in each office.
Alcaraz’s insistent triumph has since been promoted as a top-down reorganizing, with Djokovic as of now not the relentless power he used to be. The seven-time Wimbledon champion, who is yet to come out on top for a championship of any sort this year, was just incapable to answer what Alcaraz was tossing at him.
Toni Nadal accepts that Djokovic battled to adapt to the beat of Alcaraz’s play and was depending on karma that won’t ever show up. The Spaniard, writing in his El Pais section, proceeded to name Jannik Delinquent as the main player who can give Alcaraz a legitimate test with Djokovic at this point not a danger.
Reflecting on Djokovic’s tactical approach, Nadal said: “Knowing that neither his legs nor the precision of his strokes were what they once were, and that a long and physical match would not help him either, he tried a tactic that ultimately proved suicidal.
“He wanted to impose a high tempo, play aggressively, shorten the exchanges from the back of the court and at the slightest opportunity, close out the points at the net. In my opinion, the only option the Serbian had was to try to slow down the game, to hope that he was completely right and to trust that Carlos was not having his best day.
“Attempting to beat the player from Murcia by speed is basically incomprehensible these days. Maybe just Jannik Delinquent can play the Spaniard based on equivalent conditions. Also, truth be told, this Sunday’s last affirms that the genuine competition in the following competitions and, most likely, in the following couple of years will be between these two: the Italian and our extraordinary Spanish hero.”
Delinquent, as Alcaraz, has been generally tipped as a future star of the game and outperformed Djokovic at the highest point of the ATP rankings recently. He came out on top for his most memorable Huge homerun championship at the Australian Open, beating Daniil Medvedev in the last with Alcaraz crashing out in the last eight.
Ongoing matches among Alcaraz and Delinquent have been firmly battled, with the Spaniard winning five of their nine gatherings to date. There is each opportunity they will confront each other in future Huge homerun finals as they leave on a competition that could rule tennis for a long time to come.
