Overview
- In an Instagram story on January 7–8, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga told Patrick Mouratoglou to respect his playing career and argued a coach cannot fully know what it is to enter the arena as a player.
- Mouratoglou had posted a January 2 video defending the current Top 10, naming Félix Auger-Aliassime, Alex de Minaur, Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz, Jack Draper, and Holger Rune, and said he was not sure Tsonga would have beaten them regularly.
- The back-and-forth traces to Tsonga’s October interview with Univers Tennis, where he questioned how Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner would be tested against Big Three–era opposition.
- Tsonga also stated that Alcaraz and Sinner deserve full credit for their current dominance.
- French coverage highlights the pair’s 25-year acquaintance and notes their competing academies, with the dispute so far limited to public posts and media commentary.