Tennis Random, Random (On Court)

[ponchi101]

interesting comment on Roddick's podcast - Alcaraz is a combination of Federer, Nadal and Murray - Sinnner is just Djokovic 2.0..would you agree?
Gilbert said Sinner is a combination of Federer and Agassi..
I think Djokovic is much stronger mentally than Sinner is.. he could always raise his game, as he did repeatedly against Federer at W and the USO.. I dont see that in Sinner yet...

Djokovic as a mental giant is a hard buy for me. Remember early in his career, how he tanked matches and outright quit in a few. He was not that great. Later in his career yes, which was a great transformation, but as a paragon of mental strength, I could leave him out of the top 10 of all times.

I like it that nobody is ever a combination of "Leconte, Rios and Berdych". Or "Noah, Edberg and Todd Martin". Combinations that would be lethal (really, imagine somebody with Leconte's strokes, Rios' back court game, and Berdych's consistency and power. How could you beat that?).
And I don't see what of Murray does Alcaraz have. Except the non stop talk to his box.

[ashkor87]

It was mentioned.. Alcaraz forward movement to returning even a first serve reminded them of Murray

[ashkor87]

Best free shooter I ever saw was a UCLA guard Rod Foster
.never missed one that I recall .
I agree, missing the second serve is often because you are trying to hit it harder than needed. But it is mostly in the head

[ponchi101]

It was mentioned.. Alcaraz forward movement to returning even a first serve reminded them of Murray

Reminded them of Murray?
Wow, if there had only ever been another player, more decorated than Murray, that had moved forward when returning serves. Anybody in the 90's ...
(Heck, Jonas Bjorkman did it much better than anybody).