Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and Others Receive Sharp Criticism as Russian Tennis Legend Nikolai Davydenko Gets Real About Tennis’ Current State

Tennis off-season is upon us and this is the best time to look back at the highlights of the season. Recently Russian tennis legend Nikolai Davydenko sat down for an interview to reflect on the young tennis stars who played important tournaments this year. And to say the least, he is not impressed with anyone.

The tennis legend made it very clear in the interview that finds the young generation very inadequate and even compared them to the generations before them in the ATP men’s tour. As much as tennis fans may have enjoyed the primary tournaments of the year, Davydenko’s interview might force them to change their perspective.

Nikolai Davydenko shares how he does not find young players in the ATP Tour adequate

The 2009 Final tournament champion Nikolai Davydenko was recently in an interview where he looked at the matches that took place this year. He also discussed the different young players who were a part of the season and the way they played, and well, he did not find anyone worth getting impressed with.

He shared, “So far, I can’t say that anyone particularly captivated me. In our time, of course, there was something to see. Now there is more physical activity: all the guys are more striking, powerful, and execute serves. There is nothing to conquer. If you are powerful, you will hit if you are tall, you will serve. So, I can’t yet say: “Wow, this is super technique, what moves!” I didn’t see anything supernatural.”

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Not just that, he even took examples of different young plays to prove his point like that of Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and many more. In fact, he also compared them to Novak Djokovic while the conversation went on.

Davydenko calls out Alcaraz and Sinner on their inadequacy in tennis

As the interview progressed, Davydenko shared that Jannik Sinner only won because of his hard work and willpower. But that is not enough. If he wants to make it through the entire season like Novak Djokovic, he has got to have that psychology like the Serbian has. Only hard work is not enough, he needs to have the right techniques as well.

On the other hand, he was completely unimpressed with Alcaraz as well. He shared that he finds him very strange. Nikolai shared that usually Spanish sportsmen have supernatural physical fitness and they don’t get tired easily. But Alcaraz just at the age of 20 is getting these injuries which seems very strange to him.

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