Mats Wilander says what he finds 'hard to believe' about Carlos Alcaraz after watching Wimbledon final vs Jannik Sinner

Jannik Sinner beat two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final.

Sinner won the Wimbledon title for the first time in his career this year after beating Alcaraz in four sets on Centre Court.

This enabled him to enact revenge from the Roland Garros final, where Alcaraz saved Sinner’s three championship points before going on to win the title.

Some former players really wanted Sinner to beat Alcaraz due to their recent head-to-head that Mats Wilander has now admitted he cannot wrap his head around.

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What Mats Wilander finds hard to believe about Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner

Not only had Sinner lost the Roland Garros final to Alcaraz, but he had actually lost his last five meetings against his greatest rival.

After watching Sinner bring that streak to an end in the Wimbledon final, former world number one Wilander told L’Equipe that he found it hard to believe how much dominance Alcaraz had over the world number one.

Wilander went on to explain how much Sinner had improved in recent years, and suggested that he expects Alcaraz to do the same in the future.

“Watching this final unfold, it was hard to believe that Carlos Alcaraz had won his last five matches with Jannik Sinner,” said Wilander.

“And easy to remember that, yes, Jannik should have won at Roland Garros a month ago. There, as here, he was the better player.

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“He has improved more than Carlos over the last two years combined, which, consequently, also leaves the latter more room for improvement in the future, particularly in terms of choosing his shots better, sometimes.

“It’s more the emotional or the motivational part that you have someone who is young, who wins basically everything. You have to be ready, no, if you want to keep up.”

Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner Head-to-head breakdown

Alcaraz and Sinner had not played a Grand Slam final against each other until this year, but they have now played back-to-back on the biggest stage at Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

Despite Sinner winning three consecutive hard court majors, it is actually Alcaraz who leads their head-to-head on the surface.

Alcaraz also has the advantage on clay, but Sinner has continued his unbeaten record on grass against the Spaniard after the Wimbledon final.

Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner Hard 5-2 Alcaraz Clay 3-1 Alcaraz Grass 2-0 Sinner Finals 3-2 Alcaraz Grand Slam Finals 1-1 Overall 8-5 Alcaraz

All of their last four meetings have come in finals, with the next possible tournament for Sinner and Alcaraz to go head-to-head being the Masters 1000 tournament in Toronto.

The Canadian Open will get underway later this month on Monday, July 28.

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