{"id":96978,"date":"2025-08-20T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96978\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:14:13","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinners-biggest-long-term-threat-revealed-by-serena-williams-ex-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96978\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz &#038; Jannik Sinner&#8217;s biggest long-term threat revealed by Serena Williams&#8217; ex-coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed tennis coach Rick Macci has identified Joao Fonseca as \u201cthe chosen one\u201d who he believes could threaten the dominance of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a> has won five Grand Slam titles, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner<\/a> has secured four. Since the start of 2024, the leading duo have collected each of the last seven majors between them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/joao-fonseca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fonseca<\/a> has been widely touted as one of the most exciting talents in tennis since his emergence on the tour.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/atp-rankings-carlos-alcaraz-hot-pursuit-jannik-sinner-joao-fonseca-francisco-comesana-terence-atmane-rise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">climbed to a career-high ranking of world No 44<\/a> after earning two wins to reach the third round at the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old won his maiden ATP Tour title at the Argentine Open in February after triumphing at the ATP Next Gen Finals in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to Tennis365, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/rick-macci\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macci<\/a> was asked which player he sees as the biggest long-term challenger to Sinner and Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFonseca is the best young talent I\u2019ve seen. He would be, to me, the chosen one that could be in there,\u201d assessed the American.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Macci Exclusives<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz-changing-the-game-federer-nadal-djokovic-rick-macci\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legendary coach breaks down how Carlos Alcaraz &amp; Jannik Sinner are \u2018changing the game\u2019 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/can-novak-djokovic-win-25th-grand-slam-us-open-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What needs to happen for Novak Djokovic to win a 25th Grand Slam? Legendary coach reveals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he\u2019s a couple years away, even though he could be top 20 by the end of the year, I think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you gotta remember, as everybody is getting better, so is Sinner and Alcaraz, they\u2019re gonna push themselves to add more sprinkles to their game. They\u2019re just a cut above because of how complete they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlcaraz can do every shot from everywhere on the court and he\u2019s the fastest player out there. And Sinner, he\u2019s just rock solid off both sides. His serve\u2019s got a lot better. And mentally, he\u2019s not going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, the bar has been so raised, but listen, there\u2019s always gonna be a next. But I don\u2019t see anybody, for quite a while, joining that mix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you\u2019ll know it when someone beats them in a Grand Slam and then they follow it up and get in that two, three, four [Grand Slam] category and they start beating Carlos or Jannik a couple times, even at other events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, there might be someone [who will] come in and we may get the [new] Big Three. But I don\u2019t see anybody on the horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-ranking-world-no1-jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz could take over as world No 1 as Jannik Sinner\u2019s US Open plans are thrown into chaos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acclaimed tennis coach Rick Macci has identified Joao Fonseca as \u201cthe chosen one\u201d who he believes could threaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-96978","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\/96978","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=96978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}