Nick Kyrgios’ controversial Carlos Alcaraz comments as Australian states he is ‘on Team Sinner’
Nick Kyrgios believes Jannik Sinner will end up having a better career than Carlos Alcaraz and he has given a bizarre reason for coming to that conclusion.
Sinner and Alcaraz have dominated men’s tennis the past few years as they have shared the last six Grand Slams with the Italian winning two Australian Open titles and the US Open crown last September, while Alcaraz has lifted two French Open trophies and won one Wimbledon since the start of 2024.
Following the recent successful defence of his Roland Garros title, where he came from two sets to love down and saved three match points to beat Sinner, Alcaraz moved to five majors with his close rival, who has been No 1 in the ATP Rankings since June last year, sits on three.
Alcaraz is also the in-form player on the ATP Tour as he has won 20 matches in a row with his last defeat coming in the final of the Barcelona Open in April.
During an episode of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown series, Kyrgios chatted with renowned coach Patrick Mouratoglou as they discussed who will have the better career between the two young stars.
The Australian stated: “I’ll say Sinner because Alcaraz loves the girls. He might get distracted, he might party too much. That’s my only thing, Sinner will stay a bit more locked in, I think.”
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A laughing Mouratoglou replied: “Sinner is more consistent in general. It’s more his mentality. If you look at this season, Alcaraz is losing a lot more matches than Sinner, so many more. And you think, he should not. Why [is he losing]?
“But because he is not always there [gestures to his head]. Even during the match, he has ups, downs [and] the other guy is like this [flat lines]. For that reason, yes [I think Sinner will be more successful].
“But at the end, it is going to be all about the big ones and their head-to-head because they are going to face each other in finals a lot.”
Alcaraz leads their rivalry 8-4 as he has won their last four five encounters with Sinner’s last win at the Beijing semi-final in 2023.
Frenchman Mouratoglou, who is also the founder of the UTS, added: “So who is going to win most of the time [in the head-to-head] is going to be the one to have the most titles and if you look at it at the moment, it’s Alcaraz. He has won the last five, five in a row.
“[For that reason] I say Alcaraz, but it is going to be close.”
Australian Kyrgios finished with “Kyrgios on Team Sinner”.
