By Chris Oddo | @Thefanchild | Sunday 6 July 2025
There are many words for similarities between games of Novak Djokovic AND Jannik sinfulWith the happy Italian who admitted that he has modeled most of his game after the big champion 24 times.
“I believe he gave me a lot of information that I can make my game similar to him, but in my style,” Sinner told the topic earlier this week.
Gjokovic, who reached the 16th round Saturday with a victory over Miomir Kecmanovic was asked to elaborate. “I think it’s clear in terms of the style of the game we both have, that we have plenty of similarities,” Gjokovic said. “We try to get the ball early, be aggressive.
Gjokovic, 38, says he remembers the sinner as young and was immediately hit by the parallels.
“I remember as a really young child, I think he was 13, 14 when I first met him and hit some balls with him,” he said. “Already at that moment he was weak and tall, like me. He’s taller than me, but I was always quite weak when I was younger. He’s just tearing the ball. You can see that he had really good time, good speed in his blows.”
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The duo even use the same rocket. But they also do many things differently. Gjokovic plays with more nuances and diversity, and mentally they are completely different in terms of behavior.
“He uses the head speed breed I use,” Gjokovic said. “There are many similarities. But he is unique in his own way. The work he has done with his team over the past two years is extraordinary in terms of improvement. Indeed, serve, movement, accuracy.
“As much as everyone talks about the speed of his shooting, time is extraordinary. I think he reduced the number of forced mistakes he had in the early years of his career, and now he is just super accurate and constantly pressures the opponent because he plays so fast.”
