Mundo Deportivo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201c Although I think it\u2019s unlikely he\u2019ll [Djokovic] win another Grand Slam. He beat [Jannik] Sinner in Australia, but not [Carlos] Alcaraz in the final.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Sinner didn\u2019t have a very good day, he didn\u2019t have a brilliant tournament. Djokovic, who is exceptional, knew how to take advantage of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the final, he played an incredible first set, but he can\u2019t maintain that pace for two hours against Alcaraz.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to his prediction surrounding Djokovic\u2019s prospects, Nadal also made a brutal assessment of rising star Fonseca.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian has continued to impress many tennis fans and pundits alike, recently reaching the fourth round of the Indian Wells Masters and the last eight in Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n
However, the tennis legend\u2019s uncle is not as impressed as may have been presumed, adding that he \u2018didn\u2019t get the feeling of being in front of a great player\u2019 when watching him compete in Miami.<\/p>\n
\u201cI watched Joao\u2019s [Fonseca] match in Miami, and honestly, I didn\u2019t get the feeling of being in front of a great player,\u201d the former coach analysed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean a level like Alcaraz, the level of a super player. When we first saw Djokovic, I knew right away he would be No 1. I saw del Potro, and felt he\u2019s a top-10 player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toni Nadal also continued to criticise the perceived lack of variety in modern tennis, arguing that the dominant strategy now is simply \u2018hitting the ball really hard\u2019 to win matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t like modern tennis enough because I prefer strategy in ball sports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019re in a sport where the most important thing, above all else, is hitting the ball really hard. Everyone serves at 200.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the era of the Big Three, there was more variety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toni Nadal has delivered a blunt assessment of Novak Djokovic\u2019s Grand Slam prospects while also urging caution over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-594363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594363","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=594363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}