{"id":152708,"date":"2025-09-13T00:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152708\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:41:14","slug":"djokovic-has-passed-his-prime-and-not-getting-close-to-sinner-and-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152708\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic has &#8216;passed&#8217; his prime and not &#8216;getting close&#8217; to Sinner and Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one is \u2018getting close\u2019 to Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner is the verdict of a fellow ATP Tour player after another Grand Slam final contested by the two.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Zverev is the only man not called Alcaraz or Sinner to have appeared in a Slam final this season as the duo continue to tighten their hold over the men\u2019s singles game.<\/p>\n<p>With the pair having won the last eight Slams, world No 61 Pedro Martinez believes no other player is \u2018getting close\u2019 to them in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be difficult for someone to be on that level soon,\u201d Martinez exclusively told Tennis365. \u201cI don\u2019t see anyone getting close to them, maybe because Djokovic is getting older every time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s playing amazing tennis but when one of them is on the opposite side, you can feel that he\u2019s not 30 or 28 or 25 anymore. These guys are 15 years younger, and they are in their prime and Djokovic I think already passed [his prime]. He\u2019s playing really good tennis, but it\u2019s not the same job he did 10 years ago, when he didn\u2019t lose so much, until Roland Garros.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE ON ALCARAZ AND SINNER ON T365<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-davis-cup-team-mate-reacts-us-open-winner-withdraws\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s Davis Cup team-mate reacts after US Open winner withdraws<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/points-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-novak-djokovic-defending-remainder-2025-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Points Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic and co are defending during remainder of 2025 season<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-goat-tennis-novak-djokovic-grand-slams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz \u2018on pace\u2019 to become the new tennis GOAT ahead of Novak Djokovic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Away from Djokovic, the likes of Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton and Jack Draper are trying to keep up but even the highest-ranked of them has a little over half the points of the No 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev started the year strong in Australia. I played him there, and he was playing good tennis. But after that, I think he lost a lot of confidence in that final in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDraper was playing good as well, but not on that level, and he got injured in Wimbledon, so he\u2019s struggling a bit this year as well, with some ups and downs physically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see if there is any young player in the next years, getting into that level. But at the moment, I see a battle between them and a battle between the others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OnlyFans has a huge range of sport creators offering exclusive behind the scenes content and insights into their training, including boxers, tennis stars, and MMA fighters. Fans can check our <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/onlyfans.com\/martinezportero\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Martinez\u2019s OnlyFans here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/boris-becker-a-little-disappointed-by-jannik-sinner-in-us-open-final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Becker reveals why he was \u2018a little disappointed\u2019 by Jannik Sinner in US Open final<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one is \u2018getting close\u2019 to Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner is the verdict of a fellow ATP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-152708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152708","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=152708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}