Home Alone, The Tennis Edition

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I keep hearing 90’s nostalgia is big right now. Well, seems it’s spreading to tennis as Jannik Sinner is being left behind and alone to take care of the game. His very own tennis version of Home Alone. He delivered in London in the way he had failed to do so in Paris, owning both his standards and his duty. But that situation isn’t sustainable for him nor for the game. Yet, men’s tennis has never needed Sinner more. As the rest of the field has never needed more to get it together.

Sinner, post both Alcaraz’s wrist injury and his Roland-Garros exit, showed at Wimbledon that he was the new master of bouncing back and also the unbeatable one unless his body turns against him. Men’s tennis, though, is looking at the thread it’s hanging by.

Side note: I finally got time to watch the Netflix documentary on Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, and that’s for sure one of the best sports ones I’ve watched. Just so good, really. Highly, highly recommend.

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Jannik Sinner blinked and found himself alone to hold the men’s tennis fort. What does it say about the sport right now?

Jannik Sinner had to rep. And he did. And it’s going to be like this until Carlos Alcaraz comes back (or, more, until he comes back at his best level) which might be later than we’d all like, as the Spaniard has already withdrawn from the Masters 1000 in Montréal. And so Sinner is getting his tennis version of Home Alone. He kept going, business as usual, prepared to battle Alcaraz for all the greatest titles and to fight a field that was said to be on the verge of catching up, but he woke up to discover he was on his own. And that changed and will keep changing everything, for him and for men’s tennis.