Chris Oddo| @thefanchild | Sunday, July 6, 2025
There are many similarities between games Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinnerthe Italian is happy to admit that he modeled his own games after the 24th major championship.
Sina said on the topic earlier this week: “I believe he gave me a lot of information that I can make the game similar, but in my style.”
Djokovic reached 16 rounds on Saturday, defeating Miomir Kecmanovic for elaboration. “I think it’s obvious from the style of our game that I guess we both have a lot of similarities,” Djokovic said. “We try to take the ball away as early as possible, be aggressive and dominate the exchange at the baseline.”
Djokovic, 38, said he remembers Sina’s junior year and was immediately hit by similarities.
“I remember he was a very young kid and I thought he was 13, 14, and when I first met him and hit some balls with him,” he said. “He was already very thin, tall, a little like myself. He was taller than me, but when I was younger I was always thin. He was just tearing the balls. You can see that he had very good brush strokes and good speed.”
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Both even use the same racket. But they also did a lot of different things. Djokovic plays more nuance and diversity, spiritually, they behave completely differently.
“He also used the head speed racket I used,” Djokovic said. “There are a lot of similarities. But he is unique in his own way. The work he has done with the team over the past few years has been huge in terms of his progress. In fact, service, exercise, accuracy.
“Although everyone talks about his shooting speed, the timing is also incredible. I think he cut down on the number of uncompulsory mistakes in the first few years of his career, and now he’s just super accurate and constantly putting pressure on his opponents because he’s doing so quickly.”
