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Sinner or Alcaraz?

  Sinner or Alcaraz It’s the end of the year and Carlos Alcaraz is the yearend #1.   It’s not very surprising – he won two slams this year and a total of eight tournaments. And right next to him is Jannik Sinner who also won two slams this year.   Sinner was #1 last year and won eight tournaments.   This year he’s a little behind Alcaraz in the tournament and points count, but part of that has to do with missing three prime months of the year while he was serving a doping suspension that he probably didn’t deserve. On the surface, it looks like Alcaraz and Sinner have formed a duopoly.   Each has won four slams in the last two years, each was #1 for one of those years, and their tournament victory count is about the same.   The two are rapidly distancing themselves from the field – no one else seems remotely in their category or able to really challenge them. They could easily dominate the next five, seven, or even ten years. So who is better?   ...