Àlex Corretja, on Rafa Jódar: “It doesn’t make sense and I believed that a very good year was going to be finishing among the top 70 in the world. I didn’t think, not even remotely, that he was going to get so close to the top 10”

It is always interesting to listen to a figure like Alex Corretja in his tennis opinions, and Mundo Deportivo had the opportunity to listen to him at the event Asics Playing Styles which was held at the Tennis Empowerment Center in Barcelona on October 16.

The brand presented the sneakers Solution Speed ​​FF 4 and Stability. The first, focused on players who try to move continuously on the court, while the second are for lovers of the baseline and lateral movement.

Asics prepared a circuit so that everyone present could enjoy training with a former world number 2 and ATP Finals champion like Álex Corretja. However, minutes before the session he took the opportunity to review the tennis season.

The season in the ATP has not been the most ordinary. Alexander Zverev won two titles grand slam and will end 2026 as number 1 in the world. In addition, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner suffered the consequences of injuries. For all these reasons, Corretja spoke out with the clarity that characterizes him.

“It has been a very surprising and changing year. There have been no clear dominators and the demands of the circuit have taken its toll on them, like Jannik. Zverev has taken his opportunity, but it has been a very strange year because it seemed that everything was going to remain the same, and it has not been,” he began.

We are bad used to it in tennis, since the Big 3 and in recent years with Alcaraz and Sinner everything has focused on a few champions. However, 2026 has been different and Corretja commented: “All this shows the difficulty of what Alcaraz and Sinner were beginning to achieve During the last seasons, we were even beginning to normalize it, and there is nothing normal about it. “I would say that a year like this is more normal than all the previous ones.”

The former tennis player celebrated that some players now feel more likely to be champions, but he regretted seeing how some have to go through injuries. Of course, he did not forget to review the rest of the current events in Spanish tennis: “Landaluce and Mérida have had an exceptional year, but what happened with Jódar does not make sense and I believed that a very good year was going to be finishing among the top 70 in the world. “I didn’t think, not even remotely, that he was going to get so close to the top 10.”

Finally, he assessed the level of Alexander Davidovich in 2026 that will help him break new ceilings in his career: “He has the potential, the desire, and he has achieved that serenity and balance that he needed in his life,” he said.