By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday July 6, 2025
There’s been a lot discuss similarities between the video games of Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner, with the Italian pleased to confess that he has modeled a lot of his sport after the 24-time main champion.
“I consider that he gave me a number of data that I could make my sport just like his, however in my type,” Sinner mentioned on the subject earlier this week.
Djokovic, who reached the spherical of 16 on Saturday with a win over Miomir Kecmanovic was requested to elaborate. “I feel it is apparent when it comes to I assume the type of play that we each have, that we’ve got fairly a little bit of similarities,” Djokovic mentioned. “We attempt to take the ball early, be aggressive, dominate the alternate from the baseline.”
Djokovic, 38, says he remembers Sinner as a junior and was instantly struck by parallels.
“I bear in mind him as a very younger child, I feel he was 13, 14 years previous after I met him first and hit some balls with him,” he mentioned. “Already at that time he was skinny and tall, form of like myself. He is taller than me, however I used to be at all times fairly skinny after I was youthful. He was simply ripping the ball. You would see that he had the actually good timing, good pace on his strokes.”
The pair even use the identical racquet. However in addition they do a number of issues otherwise. Djokovic performs with extra nuance and selection, and mentally they’re fully totally different when it comes to demeanor.
“He makes use of the Head Velocity racquet that I take advantage of, as effectively,” Djokovic mentioned. “There’s fairly a couple of similarities. However he is distinctive in his personal means. The work that he has finished along with his crew over the past couple of years is super when it comes to his enchancment. Actually, serve, motion, accuracy.
“As a lot as all people talks concerning the pace of his photographs, the timing is unbelievable. I feel he decreased the variety of unforced errors he had perhaps within the first few years of his profession, and now he is simply tremendous correct and continuously places stress on the opponent as a result of he performs so quick.”
