{"id":13746,"date":"2025-07-16T08:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13746\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:32:03","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-claimed-to-have-one-part-of-his-game-he-cant-rely-on-in-the-same-way-as-jannik-sinner-after-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13746\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz claimed to have one part of his game he \u2018can\u2019t rely on\u2019 in the same way as Jannik Sinner after Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carlos Alcaraz has surrendered his Wimbledon crown to his biggest rival, Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n

Despite battling across four sets, the Spaniard was unable to prevent a 6-4 4-6 4-6 4-6 loss to the Italian.<\/p>\n

Sinner<\/a> was simply more consistent and played better on the big points. Tennis is a game of fine margins, and Sinner most certainly won the battle of those margins on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

However, one particular area of Alcaraz\u2019s<\/a> game misfired during the contest, a factor one journalist has claimed the Spaniard \u2018can\u2019t rely on\u2019 in the same way as Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesDavid Law says Carlos Alcaraz cannot rely on his serve like Jannik Sinner<\/p>\n

David Law, a journalist who assists with the BBC\u2019s coverage, was speaking about the final on The Tennis Podcast<\/a> when the topic of Alcaraz\u2019s first serve arose.<\/p>\n

Law said: \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be having a drop-off in first serve percentage in the type of which Alcaraz had say, from the Wimbledon final a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should be getting over 60 per cent in and he\u2019s getting around 50. It\u2019s not going to get the job done against this guy. Not against an amazing returner like Sinner, who was going for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat really struck me was, I kept referring to how Alcaraz in this position will go for it and actually Sinner was also going for it. I don\u2019t think he was going to leave himself with any regrets.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Visionhaus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you\u2019re absolutely right [Catherine Whitaker], he [Sinner] can rely on his serve, that\u2019s the difference. Alcaraz can have incredible serving days, but he can\u2019t rely on it in the same way.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t actually know what is going to happen from day to day, I don\u2019t think in the same way [as Sinner].\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s first serve struggles in the Wimbledon final<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s first serve left a lot to be desired in the Wimbledon<\/a> final.<\/p>\n

The world number two, who congratulated Sinner after the final<\/a> on social media, made just 53 per cent of his first serves during the contest, giving Sinner ample opportunity to exploit the second serve and create break-point opportunities.<\/p>\n

This was the lowest first serve percentage of any match Alcaraz played at Wimbledon. The closest he came to emulating this statistic was in the first and third rounds, where he averaged 58 per cent against Fabio Fognini and Jan-Lennard Struff respectively.<\/p>\n

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The Spaniard will have to improve this percentage if he hopes to win his second US Open<\/a> crown in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has surrendered his Wimbledon crown to his biggest rival, Jannik Sinner. Despite battling across four sets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[12211,2073,432,99,428,96],"class_list":["post-13746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-tennis-players","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13746","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=13746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}