Eye of the coach #104: "Sinner's movement makes him a contender to win Roland-Garros"

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00:00The way Yannick moves on a tennis court makes him automatically potentially a Rangaros winner.

00:08The fact that he's moving so well and he's comfortable to move on clay, comfortable to move

00:12on grass, makes him immediately potentially a winner on those Grand Slams as well because

00:18the key element to be performant on clay and grass is the movement. That's the number one key.

00:24Of course if you have a lot of variety, if you are able to produce unbelievable topspin with

00:29your forehand, then it's an extra. But we've seen in the past many Rangaros winners before,

00:34Rafa of course, that were not supposed to be clay court players. I'm thinking the first name that

00:38comes to my mind is Del Potro. Even though he's Argentinian, I mean he was playing very flat,

00:43especially with his forehand which is his major weapon. We've seen Novak. Novak is also not the

00:49prototype of the clay court player. If you're able to be super comfortable moving on the surface

00:54and have major weapons, are able to be patient if necessary, it's no problem. So I think Yannick

01:00can totally win Rangaros. What he needs is a few matches in a row to start to really feel the game

01:06because he's out of competition. You can train as much as you want, nothing replaces matches and

01:12I'm sure his forehand is great, his backhand is great, he serves great, his movement is great but he

01:17didn't play a match for a long time now and it's difficult to assess where you are when you haven't

01:22played matches, you don't have the right reflexes, that's what it's all about. So I can believe that

01:29he will need a bit of time and matches under his belt to know exactly where he stands. So this is

01:34something that makes complete sense. And if you see when players are lacking matches, they're really

01:40looking for their game. Every time you work on something at practice, you have to be able to achieve

01:44it during the matches, to really have it inside you. And you can play as many practice matches as

01:48you want, it's not the same. It's not the same stress, the same adrenaline. Yeah, this first tournament

01:53for Yannick I think is difficult. So if he gets those three matches here in Rome, he will probably

01:58win the title. If he doesn't, if he loses before that, the dap will start to kick in and in Rangaros

02:05it's going to be more difficult. But again, in Rangaros he can get those matches and then the machine will be

02:10back 100%. So that's why I'm saying he can win Rangaros whatever happens here. But of course,

02:15if he goes far in Rome, then his chances to win Rangaros will be much higher.