Jannik Sinner made a powerful commence to his clay court time yesterday, but former world No.1 Andy Roddick does not believe that the Italian is a person of the ‘top favourites’ for Roland Garros.
Sinner beat Sebastian Korda, 6-1 6-2, in an hour and 16 minutes to progress to the 3rd round of the Monte Carlo Masters.
The globe No.2 has only dropped one match this yr, to Carlos Alcaraz in Indian Wells, but Roddick believes that Sinner’s sport could be ‘thwarted’ by the clay courts.
“Clay is going to be Sinner’s most hard surface area,” the American wrote in his Betway column. “What he does obviously nicely, bullying off the baseline, is thwarted by clay additional than just about anything else, so he’s not likely to be just one of the top two favourites heading to Roland Garros and his rivals are probably welcoming the alter.”
Roddick expanded on this, revealing that he backed Novak Djokovic and the aforementioned Alcaraz more than Sinner at the Paris main.
“I continue to like Novak and I really like what Carlos does on clay. I assume he’s going to gain a lot of French Open up titles,” claimed Roddick. “We’ll see if that commences this calendar year or not, but I surely like that transition for him. Alex[ander] Zverev is an additional who has constantly executed actually very well on clay and is underserved in that discussion that is mainly dominated by four names.
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In spite of not currently being observed as 1 of the favourites for Roland Garros, Sinner will carry on his clay court period at the Monte Carlo Masters this afternoon from Jan-Lennard Struff.
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It is almost certainly understandable that Jannik Sinner is not seen as 1 of the major two favourites for Roland Garros, presented that he has not surpassed the quarter-finals at the event and Novak Djokovic has received it three periods together with previous 12 months. That being explained, if Sinner has a strong guide-up to Roland Garros that could cause the likes of Andy Roddick to alter their viewpoints, primarily as it is not at present clear how intense Carlos Alcaraz’s appropriate arm injuries is.
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