{"id":85620,"date":"2025-06-30T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=85620"},"modified":"2025-06-30T06:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:15:26","slug":"nick-kyrgios-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-big-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/06\/30\/nick-kyrgios-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-big-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios chooses Carlos Alcaraz over Jannik Sinner in comparisons to the Big 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has always been very vocal about his opinions on the tour. Having played in a generation dominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/06\/10\/rafael-nadal-roger-federer-french-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal<\/a> and Novak Djokovic&#8211;famously called the &#8220;Big 3&#8221;&#8211;Kyrgios certainly has a fair idea of the capabilities of the legends. The Aussie has also seen modern stars <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/06\/13\/carlos-alcaraz-crosses-6-million-prize-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> from up close and one would like to give an ear to the comparisons he makes between the generations.<\/p>\n<h2>Kyrgios points out difference between Alcaraz and Sinner<\/h2>\n<p>In <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jun\/21\/nick-kyrgios-if-id-acted-a-bit-differently-i-would-have-had-a-wimbledon-title\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent interview with the Guardian<\/a>, Kyrgios heaped praise about both Sinner and Alcaraz. &#8220;It\u2019s pretty obvious those two are going to be juggernauts of the sport for the next 10 or 15 years. They pushed each other to a level that not many have played before. I think Alcaraz has that flair and X-factor of Federer, Nadal, and Novak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios certainly believes that the Italian and the Spaniard will be at the top of the sport for a long time and was thoroughly impressed by their level. However, while drawing comparisons with the Big 3, Kyrgios stuck by the side of Alcaraz attributing his flair.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios added, &#8220;Sinner is incredibly powerful, but Alcaraz will be up there with those greats.&#8221; The Aussie believes that Sinner is extremely powerful in his on-court game; however, he directed his statement about the recently crowned <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open<\/a> champion by once again naming him close to the Big 3.<\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"oryW-yx6QjJkm0sEn17Y3Q\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2219194761\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'oryW-yx6QjJkm0sEn17Y3Q',sig:'QpRVmQCrUVVoMBljUNCwjewaIQLrRrOiFCM8jqxthhw=',w:'594px',h:'416px',items:'2219194761',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After playing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/06\/08\/2025-french-open-mens-final-match-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">a classic at the French Open<\/a>, both Sinner and Alcaraz would certainly like to outperform each other at the forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wimbledon<\/a> Championships. Alcaraz has already won the event twice. He has put himself in company with legends like Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, who are also two-time champions at the All-England Club. Sinner&#8217;s best result, on the other hand, has been the semifinal appearance he made in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has always been very vocal about his opinions on the tour. Having played in a generation dominated by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic&#8211;famously called the &#8220;Big 3&#8221;&#8211;Kyrgios certainly has a fair idea of the capabilities of the legends. The Aussie has also seen modern stars Jannik Sinner and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5563,"featured_media":84868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,9,6],"tags":[16,5729,5862,209,22,135,114],"class_list":["post-85620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-featured","category-news","category-wimbledon","tag-andy-murray","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85631,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85620\/revisions\/85631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}