Novak Djokovic\u2019s retirement stance defended by Boris Becker amid ongoing rumours<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI have seen matches, especially of Federer and Djokovic, where they played at a brutal pace,\u201d Lopez continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if Sinner and Alcaraz play faster, but similar. Perhaps they are more explosive at certain times, especially Alcaraz, although Sinner also moves very well, just in a different way.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, in terms of pure play speed, in baseline exchanges, it may be that at times, they play a bit faster. It depends on the surface, the moment, it\u2019s hard to measure.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinner sets a very high pace, and hardly anyone can keep up with him, the only one who can is Alcaraz.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, Alcaraz has other elements in his game that he can use.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe continues to play at a high pace, but at other times in the match, he uses the serve and volley, high balls, he has the ability to change his playing style depending on the moment or the opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, Djokovic is still an active player and remains a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n
Indeed, the Serbian superstar outclassed Alcaraz in a four-set battle at the 2025 Australian Open quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Since then, he has lost to Sinner at the French Open and Wimbledon, as well as to Alcaraz at the US Open \u2013 convincingly defeated in straight sets on all three occasions.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, the world No 4 still strongly believes that he can defeat both players in 2026, if he remains physically fit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be very difficult for me in the future to overcome the hurdle of Sinner, Alcaraz, in the best-of-five on the Grand Slams,\u201d admitted the Serb in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I have a better chance best of three, but best of five, it\u2019s tough. I\u2019m not giving up on Grand Slams in that regard, having said that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to continue fighting and trying to get to the finals and fight for another trophy at least. But it\u2019s going to be a very difficult task.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world No 12 Feliciano Lopez believes that Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner hit faster shots and are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-280332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}