{"id":125949,"date":"2025-09-01T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125949\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:50:09","slug":"laura-robson-says-if-she-has-changed-her-mind-on-who-she-thinks-will-win-the-us-open-after-watching-carlos-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125949\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Robson says if she has changed her mind on who she thinks will win the US Open after watching Carlos Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Laura Robson has seen her prediction for the eventual US Open men\u2019s champion called into question after watching Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s supreme performance last night.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the Spaniard was rock-solid as he breezed past Arthur Rinderknech in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>It was the most routine win for a player in inspired form at the moment, fresh from his title in Cincinnati. <\/p>\n<p>At his current rate, it feels as though only one man could possibly stop him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2233065654-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Alcaraz claps\" class=\"wp-image-321603\" \/>Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, that is exactly who Laura Robson picked at the start of the tournament to win the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if she still backs <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tennis\/jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> to go all the way and potentially topple <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the final, she stood firm.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Robson reinforces who she thinks will win the US Open out of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the pundit even seemed a little insulted when asked if she\u2019d like to change her prediction, stating live on Sky Sports: \u201cNo, no! I am sticking to my guns. I am not a bandwagoner!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued: \u201cI picked Sinner at the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid I know that he was going to be sick in Cincy? No. Did I know he would have a tough test yesterday in four? No. But it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone has gone for one of those two for a reason. They are so far ahead of the rest of the draw at the moment. And we are not the first people to say that, we hear from Tommy Paul saying that we are just trying to catch up with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tommy-paul-says-who-he-thinks-is-the-most-difficult-opponent-to-face-out-of-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Paul actually said who he thought was harder to play out of Alcaraz and Sinner<\/a> just last week.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s faultless serving throughout the US Open<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest strengths a tennis player can boast is a fearsome serve.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Alcaraz has that and every other shot in the playbook as well. <\/p>\n<p>On occasion this year, that serve has misfired, but his magical array of alternative qualities has pulled him through so many matches, and still won him titles.<\/p>\n<p>It is only really against Sinner where perfection is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Based on his current form though, with the serving included, that is what Alcaraz has managed thus far.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"976\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/alcaraz_serving.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-321673\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In his four wins in New York this year, the 22-year-old has been broken just once, with his opponents only managing to create eight break point opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>He has been cruising through his own service games and blitzing returns to constantly apply pressure on his opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Should he maintain that trend, it\u2019s hard to imagine even Sinner stopping him from winning a second <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Robson has seen her prediction for the eventual US Open men\u2019s champion called into question after watching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2073,75906,99,428,11883],"class_list":{"0":"post-125949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-laura-robson","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}