The 22-year-old Alcaraz became Grand Slam champion at the 2022 US Open and took his first Wimbledon title the following year, before adding another four Majors to his collection in the past two years.
Sinner, 24, needed more time to break through at Grand Slam level. The Italian tennis star has won a total of four Majors since 2024.
Heading into 2026, Alcaraz has two more Grand Slams than Sinner and he is two years younger than the Italian. However, they have achieved the same level of success over the past two years since splitting the last eight Grand Slams between them.
Baghdatis, the 2006 Australian Open finalist, was asked to choose between the two.
“A very difficult question. I would go for Alcaraz because he has more variation in his game, I can say. But he is perhaps less mentally consistent than Sinner, so it could be counterproductive. But yes, I would go for Carlos,” said former world number 8 Baghdatis. Tennis365.
Alcaraz released an important Grand Slam statement last month
Novak Djokovic has a record 24 Grand Slam titles, Rafael Nadal follows with 22, while Roger Federer finished with 20. When asked how far he wanted to go, Alcaraz made it perfectly clear that his goal was to reach the Slam heights of the Big Three.
“I can sit at the table with Nadal, Federer and Djokovic. If I didn’t think like that, I would have no goals, I would have no ambition, I would have nothing. That is a goal at the end of my career: to see that I can sit at that table with them, and that people think that at the end of my career I can sit at their table too,” the 22-year-old told Spanish media last month.
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam that Alcaraz has not yet won and that will be the Spaniard’s first major goal for 2026.
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