Jannik Sinner greetd the “novel generation” taking over men’s tennis after the world No.1 and Carlos Alcaraz allotd all the Majors this season – and alerted Novak Djokovic and co. he will only better.
The Australian Open champion, 23, endd the challengingcourt double by beating Taylor Fritz to triumph the US Open title.
And after Carlos Alcaraz, 21, won the French Open and Wimbledon, it is the first time since 1993 that all four Majors in the same year have been won by joiners 23 or youthfuler.
It is also the first tennis season since 2002 that none of the Big Three – Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer – have won a Grand Slam.
“It is a bit branch offent, for confident,” shelp Sinner. “It’s someleang novel. It’s kind for the sport to see some novel champions. Nice to see novel rivalries. I sense enjoy the novel generation we push each other, trying to better.
“I always have joiners and I will always have joiners who are going to originate me a better joiner, because there are going to be times where they beat me.
“Then you have to try to discover a way how to triumph aachievest certain joiners. I sense it’s outstanding for the sport to have some novel champions.”
Starting in Melbourne in January, Sinner has now won all six finals this season. He is the youthfulest man to triumph both challenging court Grand Slam titles in the same season.
And he is only third man in Open Era – after Jimmy Connors in 1974 and Guillermo Vilas in 1977 – to triumph his first two Grand Slam titles in the same year.
And the Italian alerted he is only going to get better. “Today we saw that not everyleang was perfect,” he shelp “I could have served sweightlessly better, but this originates me genuineise that the toil never stops.
“It’s always a continuous toil which, at the finish of the day, if you want to be a better joiner you always have to toil, and you have to have these daily routines, hug difficult times on court.
“The toil never stops. How can you join better aachievest certain opponents,? How do you toil on such sboilings?
“I was a lot in the gym, because I knovel physicassociate I still had to better and I still have to better a lot. This is all part of the forfeits you originate for an eventual future. So we will shield toiling.
“I understand that I’m not perfect and I will never be perfect, but we always try to prolong in my game. Then after my nurtureer I can say: ‘Okay, I’ve done everyleang possible to be at 100 per cent.’”
In his courtside interwatch after beating Fritz in straight sets, Sinner acunderstandledgeted: “The last month has been very difficult because you all understand what I went thraw.”
The world No.1 was cleared to join in New York after a tribunal huged his two preferable tests back in March were caused by a massage by his ex-physio.
Many joiners – past and current – cast doubt on the process while Nick Kyrgios branded the appraisement “ridiculous”.
Asked how the tennis world will react to his second Grand Slam title, the Italian shelp: “I don’t understand. You have to ask all the other joiners. This, I don’t understand. Well, that what I can say is that the ambiguous reaction of the joiners was quite preferable, even when leangs came out.
“Then there have been, of course, some branch offent voices, but this is in everyleang. This is not only in tennis. This is in other sports and branch offent jobs also. You can’t reassociate do anyleang about that.
“That’s why you have the people shut to you, these are the people who understands what was going on and what I and my team went thraw because it was not only me; it was the whole situation. I equitable can talk from my side and from my team’s perspective, and we are all very conceited of this accomplishment.”
