{"id":2753,"date":"2025-07-18T09:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2753\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:27:14","slug":"its-sinner-and-alcaraz-then-daylight-so-whos-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2753\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It\u2019s Sinner and Alcaraz, then daylight.&#8221; So who\u2019s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian pro Luke Saville believes Sinner and Alcaraz are changing the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like they&#8217;re clearly the two best in the men&#8217;s game right now,\u201d he said on this week\u2019s episode of The Tennis, \u201cand it&#8217;s just great to see when they both go at it \u2013 amazing tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For all the excitement the Sinner-Alcaraz duopoly generates, one criticism to emerge is the apparent absence of a player to challenge them.<\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic seems the likeliest figure, yet the 24-time Grand Slam champion, now 38 years old, is approaching the end of his career.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He admitted after a straight-sets loss to Sinner in the Wimbledon semifinals: \u201cPlaying best-of-five, particularly this year, has been a real struggle for me physically. The longer the tournament goes, yeah, the worse the condition gets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI reach the semis of every Slam this year, but I have to play Sinner or Alcaraz. These guys are fit, young, sharp. I feel like I&#8217;m going into the match with tank half empty. It&#8217;s just not possible to win a match like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the ultimate challenger to the \u2018Sincaraz\u2019 stranglehold over men\u2019s tennis might logically come from a younger cohort.<\/p>\n<p>And Saville has his eye on one player in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australian pro Luke Saville believes Sinner and Alcaraz are changing the sport. \u201cI feel like they&#8217;re clearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}