Carlos Alcaraz in 2024, and explained what he needs to improve to be more consistently at the top of the sport.
“There’s a bit of everything. The main aspect is of course mental, but there are also a lot of aspects of my game (to improve),” said Andrey Rublev. “I’m in the top 10, but I’m one of the worst players at the net! The other players in the top 10 manage to return balls from difficult positions; mine sometimes land outside the court.
“So I try to work on these kinds of details, I dedicate more time to them than before. In the past, I was only obsessed with my forehand; today, I’m a little more open to working on other things in training.”
Rublev will look to put these improvements to test in Hong Kong, where he begins his 2025 season as the defending champion.Inside the baseline…Whatever you think about Jannik Sinner and his specific doping case, it is undoubtedly an incredible feat to have enjoyed such an impressive and dominant season with all of that continuing to go on. Sinner does not know if he will even be able to play all of next season, but still continues to play such incredible tennis week-in-and-week-out. However, it feels like the whole anti-doping system does need an overhaul, but mostly to help even the playing field for lower ranked players on both the ATP and WTA Tour. In terms of Andrey Rublev and his 2024 season, we all know how much of a threat he can be, but it has been quite uncomfortable to watch him at times this year given his quite violent outbursts towards himself, so that is definitely something that needs to be improved next year.
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