An era, that of the Big Three, is coming to an end. Federer has been absent for almost two years and Nadal and Djokovic, the other two legs, are trying to hold the table in a fight against the passage of time and the new wave, embodied in Carlitos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, today the strongest candidates to put an end to the dominance of those who by numbers are the three best players in history.
Between them they have shared 66 of the 93 Grand Slams played this century. At Roland Garros, whose 123rd edition the previews are being held this week (the main draws start on Sunday), the last eight Musketeers Cups have ended in the showcases of Nadal and Djokovic, five for the first and two for the second. The last interruptions in the tyranny were precisely Alcaraz, champion of the US Open 2022 and Wimbledon in 2023, and Sinner, winner in Australia this year.
The ‘dolphins’ of the Big Three appeared this Wednesday in Paris, where today is the draw for the paintings, which could place them on the same side. Both trained on the Philippe Chatrier court, the headquarters of the Roland Garros macro complex. Sinner succeeded Nadal, with whom he had a small exchange of words.
The 22-year-old Italian is in the season of his definitive emergence, champion in the 500 in Rotterdam and in the Masters 1,000 in Miami in addition to his aforementioned first foray into the Grand Slam. He has 28 wins and two losses and is second in the ranking. Roland Garros, where he has the 2020 quarterfinals as his ceiling and has tried Nadal’s medicine twice, that year and the next, he is the great that has been the worst.
That is where an Alcaraz, weakened this year by his problems with his right arm, has an advantage, who also had his training at Chatrier this Wednesday. The Murcian, 18-5 and a title in Indian Wells this year, was a semifinalist in the Bosque de Bologna in 2023, when he ran into Djokovic. Precisely the man to dethrone now.
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2024-05-23 01:34:14
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