'I won Wimbledon – I've seen one player who is better on grass than Roger Federer'

Roger Federer reigned ultimate connected top-level writer courts for implicit 2 decades, but 1 erstwhile Wimbledon victor doesn’t judge he’s the champion ever to grace the surface

Prodigy Carlos Alcaraz is the top tennis subordinate to ever instrumentality to a nonrecreational writer tribunal – besting adjacent Roger Federer, says Pat Cash.

Since laying down a gauntlet to tennis’ elite in 2022 with his US Open win, Alcaraz has transformed into 1 of the astir entertaining and unstoppable forces on the nonrecreational tour.

He’s amassed four Grand Slam titles astatine the property of 21, his archetypal coming astatine 19, and has bested all-time large Novak Djokovic doubly already connected the writer of SW19 – winning his large titles connected each of the 3 tribunal surfaces.

Despite showing an affinity for immoderate weather, 1987 Wimbledon champ Cash has lauded the young Spaniard’s quality connected grass, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic to accidental that helium is already a much established subordinate connected the aboveground than Federer and Djokovic.

With 8 and 7 rubric wins astatine The Championships, respectively, Federer and Djokovic often spot their names mentioned erstwhile the taxable of the champion subordinate to instrumentality to writer arises.

Swiss icon Federer called clip connected his illustrious vocation aft implicit 2 decades successful 2022 and ended with a staggering 87 per cent top-level triumph complaint connected the surface, tasting triumph 192 times to conscionable 29 losses.

Djokovic connected the different hand, is inactive trading blows with the younger elite, but has truthful acold built up an arsenic awesome triumph percent of 85.7 per cent, with 120 triumphs and 20 losses.

Cash’s antheral Alcaraz, however, contempt having played less top-class matches connected writer than Federer has defeats, presently holds an 89% triumph rate, having mislaid connected conscionable 3 occasions whilst tallying 24 wins.

“He hasn’t got a weakness. I astir deliberation helium is 1 of the best, successful information the champion subordinate I person ever seen connected grass,” Australian Cash told Sky Sports Tennis. “Ever seen, and I americium truly talking astir ever seen.

“Because helium is simply a young guy, helium has taken the champion of Rafa [Nadal], the champion of Federer and helium has been capable to accommodate that. Without these large players, helium wouldn’t person had that, and helium admits that.

“He said, 'without Rafa I wouldn’t beryllium wherever I am’, but helium has conscionable taken the champion of everything and someway astatine the property of 21 has enactment it each together. I person ne'er seen thing similar that.

“We’ll spot however helium does implicit his career, due to the fact that evidently helium doesn’t person that longevity yet. But helium decidedly has the worldly of 1 of the champion of each clip similar Federer, Nadal and Djokovic if helium continues similar this.”

Cash is not the lone 1 who has compared Alcaraz to specified greats. British tennis ace Liam Broady besides believes that the youngster has the hallmarks of his iconic predecessor, and compatriot Nadal – who dominated a aboveground of his own: clay.

“He has the sheer powerfulness of Rafa, but helium has the lightness to his crippled and that benignant of aura that Fed had,” Broady said. “He’s similar a ballet dancer but with that quality to displacement similar lone Rafa could.

“He has the spot similar Rafa had connected a clay tribunal to play mode backmost successful the tribunal but helium tin besides play up successful the tribunal the aforesaid mode that Roger utilized to. He is 1 of the fewer players successful the athletics who tin instrumentality your enactment distant with immoderate of the shots that helium hits.”

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