The last eight Grand Slams have been won either by Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, with the two having faced off in the final of each of the last three Majors. And according to US tennis legend Jimmy Connors, the \u2018Sincaraz\u2019 pair would have given Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal a proper scrap in their prime.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have been ruling men\u2019s tennis for the last two years now, with the each of the last eight Grand Slams having been won by one of these two young stars. The gulf between \u2018Sincaraz\u2019 and the rest of the field \u2013 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic included \u2013 can be gauged from the fact that the final of the last three Grand Slams have featured these two young stars.<\/p>\n
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Reacting to their meteoric rise in the sport over the last couple of years, American tennis legend Jimmy Connors feels Sinner and Alcaraz could have taken on Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, winner of 22 and 20 Grand Slams respectively, in their prime.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I like is that the two guys, Sinner and Alcaraz, they know that that is their time. Even if Nadal and Federer and were still around too, they would want to say, \u2018Move over, boys.\u2019 I like that,\u201d the eight-time Grand Slam champion said on the Advantage Connors podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have raised their game to that level. The other guys out there playing, they didn\u2019t do that. They were waiting around for them to retire or something to happen and say, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s my turn now.\u2019 Well, maybe it\u2019s not. But these two guys, they are head and shoulders (above the rest),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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Alcaraz had fought back from two sets down to defeat Sinner in an epic French Open final in June. The Italian, however, Alcaraz and Sinner had defeated Djokovic and Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime respectively in the semi-finals of the French Open last week, the f
\nbounced back against the Spaniard the following month<\/a>, denying Alcaraz a hat-trick of Wimbledon titles in the process.<\/p>\n
\normer defeating the Serbian icon in straight sets<\/a> while denying him a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam.<\/p>\n