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 most effective participant on the planet in the mean time.
“I believe in the mean 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’s nothing to say to that. You see how targeted he’s, how decided he’s, the best way he is hitting his pictures, there’s zero doubt, so quite a lot of that degree, it is extraordinarily excessive up.
Requested to check him to legends like Djokovic and the Large 4, Dimitrov hesitated. He stated it’s higher to not evaluate.
“I do not really feel the necessity to evaluate him to another 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 best reward the Italian’s method.
“Can he play any higher? I do not know,” Dimitrov stated. “He is the one to point out that. However in the mean time he is been capable of actually put so many matches again to again, with the identical degree, so all credit score goes to him. And he’s the most effective participant proper now on the planet.”