By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday March 31, 2024
After falling to Jannik Sinner in Sunday’s Miami Open closing (6-3, 6-1), Grigor Dimitrov didn’t have any doubts concerning the standing of the Italian.
In different phrases: don’t let the No.2 rating idiot you – Sinner’s the very best participant on the earth in the intervening time.
“I believe in the intervening time clearly Jannik is enjoying, I imply, excellent tennis,” Dimitrov stated of the Italian, who improved to 22-1 on the season and have become the primary ATP participant to hit three titles in 2024. “There may be nothing to say to that. You see how centered he’s, how decided he’s, the best way he is hitting his photographs, there’s zero doubt, so a whole lot of that stage, it is extraordinarily excessive up.
Requested to match him to legends like Djokovic and the Large 4, Dimitrov hesitated. He stated it’s higher to not examine.
“I do not really feel the necessity to examine him to every other participant or any participant, for that matter,” he stated. “I believe it is simply clearly [it is] his time of prime tennis that he is enjoying.”
Earlier than he completed breaking it down, Dimitrov tossed the very best reward the Italian’s method.
“Can he play any higher? I do not know,” Dimitrov stated. “He is the one to indicate that. However in the intervening time he is been in a position to actually put so many matches again to again, with the identical stage, so all credit score goes to him. And he’s the very best participant proper now on the earth.”
