The Nothing Main podcast animated by former American tennis gamers John Isner, Sam Querrey, Jack Sock and Steve Johnson centered – in considered one of its newest episodes – on Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.
The Spaniard and the Italian have received all 4 Grand Slams of 2024. And so the controversy of the final episode of the present revolved loads – on the finish of the 12 months – on the 2 younger superstars of the ATP Tour. Talking in a latest episode of the podcast, John Isner admitted that he was stunned that Sinner had ended the season as number one on this planet.
Querrey then pressed Isner, asking the countryman if he thinks it is as a result of the Spaniard has extra charisma.
“Do you think it’s just because, like everywhere in the world, Alcaraz is more popular than Sinner, he has more charisma and has more followers on social media, he’s just more of a showman?”
Sinner and Alcaraz© @giovannipelazzo X account
Isner defined that his prediction was based mostly on the Spaniard’s success at Grand Slam tournaments earlier than 2024, as the present world No. 1 had not received a Main earlier than this 12 months.
“I thought so only because before this year Carlos was the one who had won the Slams. Jannik didn’t have the Slams and I didn’t think he would win two Slams this year,” he defined.
Isner and Querrey have primarily highlighted what occurs outdoors of Italy: Sinner is as in style as a messiah in his nation, praised by journalists and the media, in addition to by followers. Outdoors of Italy the story is totally totally different.
Media and followers have licensed how Carlitos is way more in style and adopted greater than Jannik. Alcaraz is a worldwide model that may solely develop. For Sinner, loads may even rely on the ultimate final result of the Clostebol doping scandal. What is definite is that the notion between the Spaniard and the Italian, on a worldwide stage, is totally totally different.
