{"id":421055,"date":"2026-01-18T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:56:08","slug":"jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz-dominance-todd-woodbridge-grand-slam-daily-opinion-mens-draw-analysis-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421055\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz dominance, Todd Woodbridge, Grand Slam Daily opinion, men’s draw analysis, odds"},"content":{"rendered":"

MELBOURNE: Todd Woodbridge<\/a> has rejected Pat Cash’s claim that a new ‘big two’ era is bad for men’s tennis.<\/p>\n

Australian great Cash expressed concern that Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz’s dominance had become “unhealthy”<\/a> with the European stars winning the last eight grand slams between them.<\/p>\n

Sinner has won the last two Australian Open titles and Alcaraz is at short odds to join him in the final at Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n

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“There’s a pretty good chance we’re going to see four finals in a row of Alcaraz and Sinner,” Woodbridge said on Stan Sport’s Grand Slam Daily with Chris Stubbs.<\/a><\/p>\n

“And I promise you that, probably, most tennis fans would love to see that… it’s my preference. I’d love to see that here.<\/p>\n

“I want to see it in all of those majors.”<\/p>\n

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\"Jannik<\/p>\n

Jannik Sinner of Italy celebrates a point against Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Even at age 38, with his legendary powers fading, Novak Djokovic remains the third favourite with the bookmakers.<\/p>\n

And while disagreeing with Cash’s assertion, Woodbridge admitted that Sinner, 24, and Alcaraz, 22, could do with some younger players snapping at their heels.<\/p>\n

“You need people to be able to push them,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Because they’ve raised it to a level – even Roger Federer in a press conference here – said the level that they’ve brought, so quickly at their age, he didn’t really think that that would happen right now.<\/p>\n

“So it’s that next one coming through that is maybe able to do that. Joao Fonseca is the one I see being able to, but he comes in with a little bit of a cloud over his head, with injury.<\/p>\n

“So he’s maybe not ready to do that here and now, but he is one that will be thrown into that mix.”<\/p>\n

\"Joao<\/p>\n

Joao Fonseca of Brazil celebrates winning match point against Andrey Rublev.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Alex de Minaur will again fly the flag for Australia but Woodbridge fears for the 26-year-old’s chances after analysing his draw.<\/p>\n

“The match up doesn’t look that great,” the doubles champion said.<\/p>\n

“Draw could have been better. He obviously had (Matteo) Berrettini in the opening round, who unfortunately had to withdraw. That gives him an opportunity to get a couple of matches before maybe a (Alexander) Bublik and then a Carlos.<\/p>\n

“It could have been better, but you know what, if you are going to do what he said and be a disruptor, then it’s best to probably take out a Carlos in a quarter than have to play him when he’s another round or two deeper.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE: Todd Woodbridge has rejected Pat Cash’s claim that a new ‘big two’ era is bad for men’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-421055","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\/421055","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=421055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}