{"id":1814718,"date":"2026-03-08T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1814718"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:00:49","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinners-levels-compared-to-big-4-legends-by-leading-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1814718","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner&#8217;s levels compared to &#8216;Big 4&#8217; legends by leading coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"ps-article-content rounded-lg lg:mt-5 lg:border lg:border-card lg:bg-card lg:shadow-primary\">\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"py-4 text-xl font-normal text-title sm:text-2xl\">Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s levels compared to \u2018Big 4\u2019 legends by leading coach<\/h1>\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n                        <a 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Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer\">                <\/figure><figcaption class=\"flex items-center space-x-3 border-b border-mobile-caption px-3 lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner with Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer inset                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>The debate over whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> have taken tennis to a new level over the last couple of years will always divide debate among fans who lived through the golden era dominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/roger-federer\">Roger Federer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/rafael-nadal\">Rafael Nadal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/andy-murray\">Andy Murray.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz and Sinner have started their own era of dominance and have won all of the last nine Grand Slam titles that have been contested, with Alcaraz continuing that run as he lifted his first Australian Open title to start 2026 with a bang.<\/p>\n<p>That win in Melbourne gave Alcaraz his seventh Grand Slam title and while he is making huge progress up the list of all-time greats, he has a long way to go to match the \u2018Big 3\u2019 of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, who all won in excess of 20 major tournaments in their remarkable careers.<\/p>\n<p>Coaching guru Jamie Delgado has had a unique position to watch the evolution of the new era in the men\u2019s game over the last decade, as he was coaching Andy Murray during his rise to world No 1. in 2016 and then worked with Grigor Dimitrov as he battled against Alcaraz and Sinner in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Delgado was coaching Dimitrov as he came close to beating Sinner at Wimbledon last summer and when he was asked about the qualities of the six players have won so much in this century, he suggests the notion that tennis has gone to the next level with the new \u2018Big 2\u2019 may not be accurate.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/novak-djokovic-pays-carlos-alcaraz-huge-compliment-and-backs-him-to-break-demanding-record\">Novak Djokovic pays Carlos Alcaraz huge compliment and backs him to break \u2018demanding\u2019 record<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/active-atp-players-most-prize-money-carlos-alcaraz-novak-djokovic-jannik-sinner\">10 active ATP players with the most prize money: Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJannik and Carlos are incredible players and I think they could mix it with the Big Four guys for sure,\u201d said Delgado, in an exclusive extract of the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@offcourtwithgreg\">Off Court with Greg Rusedski podcast<\/a> being published on Tennis365.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think that in yesteryear, like 10 years ago or so, I think we had more challenges to those top guys. I think the level was a bit higher. You had likes of (Juan Martin) Del Potro, Stan Wawrinka, Thomas Berdych.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think these guys were more of a threat to the those top four than some of the guys now. A few years ago, I feel the top 10, 15 were stronger before better players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think the general level on the tour now has improved. A guy ranked 30 in the world, 40 in the world, 50 in the world, I think is better now. Every match is super tough from the first round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere I don\u2019t know if, know, 10, 15 years ago, I think sometimes the first round for the top guys was a bit more of a stroll in the park, I feel. So I think in the earlier rounds, you\u2019ve got to be on it now. There\u2019s no question about it. But I come quarters and semis, I think there was more danger and a bit more quality before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former British No 1 Rusedski echoed Delgado\u2019s sentiments, as he urged the young guns in men\u2019s tennis to step up and challenge Alcaraz and Sinner.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to look at the age group of these youngsters coming up to challenge,\u201d said Rusedski.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got Ben Shelton who\u2019s very young. You\u2019ve got Jack (Draper) who was in the mix before he had that six, seven months off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re all a little bit younger than that depth of generation that was around with Murray, Nadal, Djokovic and Federer. And let\u2019s not forget Novak still in town at 38, 39 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big four, along with Sinner and Alcaraz, if you put those six guys together and on any given day at their peak, they would beat each other. That\u2019s how good those qualities of six guys are. They\u2019re absolute legends. We\u2019re really lucky to have those guys in our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-scar-tissue\">How Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have left \u2018scar tissue\u2019 on their biggest rivals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s levels compared to \u2018Big 4\u2019 legends by leading coach Kevin Palmer 08 Mar 2026 5:00 PM Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner with Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer inset The debate over whether Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have taken tennis to a new level over the last couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1814718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}