“You have to start improving, not just maintaining,” he said. “That was a big thing that you could still come to the net on clay, you could hit slice backhands, you could serve-volley, you have to do all those things otherwise the game has kind of passed you by and that day it changed it.”
Under the guidance of Darren Cahill and Simone Vagnozzi, Sinner and his team left nothing to chance, an attitude that Wilander said laid the foundation for a prolonged stay at No.1.
“I think what he’s doing, which is learning to expand his variety because you see in the last match he hit, it’s just a couple of different shots… those little nuances that we didn’t see last year that he’s doing now, that’s he’s willing to do and doing very successfully,” Wilander said. “Just the way he turned around the Australian Open [final], he was gone and then he changed… Very smart, very mellow.”
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