While Roger Federer has retired, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are also nearing the end of their careers. The new generation will then have to take over. But one former player doesn’t really see current young players ever reaching the Big 3 level in the past decade.
For more than a decade, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic et Rafael Nadal dominated the world of tennis. The three players left little room for the others. But the end of Big 3 approach. The Swiss has already retired and the Serbian and Spaniard are also nearing the end of their careers. The new generation should therefore begin to impose itself more and more, like Carlos Alcaraz. However, a former player doesn’t see the wave of new players reaching the level of the Big 3 one day.
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“I don’t think we’ll get to the Big 3 level of tennis”
« Next generation gamers? They’re playing very well, but we’ve had the Big 3, who are still alien to me, and I don’t think we’re going to get to that level of tennis. The speed of the game increases, which will reach a limit, but having three players who have leveled up to another type of tennis that we have never seen before, I don’t think that can happen. The three pushed each other and beat everyone but each other» thus explained Emilio Alvarez in an interview for breaking point.
“Alcaraz has incredible potential”
Despite everything, Rafael Nadal believes it Carlos Alcaraz it has insane potential. “If Carlos is where he is today, it’s because he has incredible potential and because he deserves it. He is also very young and has his whole future ahead of him. Casper was very close to becoming number one in the world and winning his first Grand Slam at the US Open“The Spaniard admitted. Whether or not his young compatriot will ever reach his level in the future remains to be seen.
