{"id":319343,"date":"2025-11-30T21:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319343\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:56:12","slug":"tallon-griekspoor-breaks-down-the-real-blueprint-to-beat-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319343\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallon Griekspoor breaks down the real blueprint to beat Sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tallon Griekspoor<\/a> has offered one of the most detailed and candid tactical breakdowns any player has shared this season regarding Jannik Sinner<\/a>. Fresh off defeating the world No. 1 at the Shanghai Masters\u2014one of only three players to beat him in 2025 alongside Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Bublik\u2014the Dutchman reflected on their rivalry and the razor-thin margins required to compete with the 4-time Grand Slam champion.Griekspoor admitted he sees Sinner as the current benchmark on tour. \u201cI think this is the toughest question in tennis at the moment,\u201d he said to Tennis Bolshoi<\/a>. \u201cI think that right now Jannik Sinner is the most dominant player. He is incredibly good. He has lost six matches this year, two of which were due to injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

The margins were evident in their Shanghai encounter, where Sinner retired at 3\u20132 down in the deciding set but only after Griekspoor had pushed him to the limit. \u201cI played with him a few times, and it was very close,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI have this idea in my head, which many other players do too, but it is very difficult to stick to this tactic for two, three hours\u2026 If I want to beat him, it\u2019s basically a three-set match, because I think he\u2019s incredible in five sets.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Griekspoor stressed most was the need to take the initiative, especially on serve. \u201cI\u2019m someone who\u2019s quite dominant on serve; I go quite big for my serve against him. He\u2019s the best returner in the game at this point,\u201d he explained. \u201cI have to play pretty hard on the second serve, because if I don\u2019t, then the second one is tough and nine times out of ten, when it goes to a long rally, I will lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to go over your limits\u201d: Griekspoor explains the formula<\/p>\n

Griekspoor acknowledged that pushing Sinner out of rhythm demands stepping outside his comfort zone. \u201cI try to play pretty risky within my own limits; sometimes I even go beyond them to beat him,\u201d he said. \u201cA couple of times I was close to beating him and I let it slip because I went over my limits and he was just picking up and went over me.\u201d It is a tactical high-wire act\u2014one many opponents are simply unable to perform for long stretches.<\/p>\n

\"Tallon<\/p>\n

Tallon Griekspoor preparing to hit a forehand<\/p>\n

He pointed to Alexander Bublik\u2019s win over Sinner on grass as a model example. \u201cBublik beat him in Halle; I think Bublik had the perfect game against Sinner on a fast court. You need to be aggressive, you need to get him out of the rhythm, you need to sometimes go a little bit hit-and-charge on return to make him uncomfortable, and every chance you get you need to take it.\u201d In Griekspoor’s view, passivity is fatal.<\/p>\n

His own win in Shanghai required resilience and nerve. \u201cWhen I beat him in Shanghai, I saved a lot of break points. I was a set down, 4\u20133, 0-40 down, which I saved,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes you need a bit of luck against Jannik\u2026 I played over my limit and you have to hope he has a little bit of an off day, which he doesn\u2019t have many times.\u201d Sinner\u2019s physical struggles ultimately tipped the balance, but Griekspoor believes the foundations of the upset were already in place.<\/p>\n

Beyond the baseline: where Sinner can still evolve<\/p>\n

While praising Sinner\u2019s all-court dominance, Griekspoor pointed out one area where the world No. 1 still has room to grow. \u201cI don\u2019t think he has\u2026 net play, yeah, but he doesn\u2019t do that very often,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s mainly a baseline player and I think when we see him in Australia, Indian Wells, Miami, I think his net play will improve so much, because that\u2019s what we are all focused on so much right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Off the court, Griekspoor\u2019s name has also surfaced due to his participation in the Northern Palmyra Trophies, an exhibition event in St Petersburg that has drawn criticism due to its sponsorship and geopolitical associations. The field includes Daniil Medvedev, Karen Khachanov and Alexander Bublik, and Griekspoor\u2019s presence reportedly aligns with his off-court relationship with Anastasia Potapova. While controversy continues, his analysis of Sinner remains the sporting headline.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallon Griekspoor has offered one of the most detailed and candid tactical breakdowns any player has shared this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[753,64,63,754,85,99645,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-319343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tallon-griekspoor","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319343","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=319343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}