By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday March 31, 2024
After falling to Jannik Sinner in Sunday’s Miami Open last (6-3, 6-1), Grigor Dimitrov didn’t have any doubts in regards to the standing of the Italian.
In different phrases: don’t let the No.2 rating idiot you – Sinner’s the perfect participant on the earth in the mean time.
“I believe in the mean time clearly Jannik is taking part in, 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’s nothing to say to that. You see how targeted he’s, how decided he’s, the way in which he is hitting his photographs, there may be zero doubt, so quite a lot of that stage, it is extraordinarily excessive up.
Requested to check him to legends like Djokovic and the Massive 4, Dimitrov hesitated. He stated it’s higher to not evaluate.
“I do not really feel the necessity to evaluate him to some 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 taking part in.”
Earlier than he completed breaking it down, Dimitrov tossed the 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 mean time he is been capable of actually put so many matches again to again, with the identical stage, so all credit score goes to him. And he’s the perfect participant proper now on the earth.”
