# Rafael Jodar’s Top 10 Rise and Comparisons to Djokovic and Hewitt

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119317826582237624
- Source account: [@AlemTenis](https://x.com/AlemTenis)
- Source language: Portuguese
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:30
- Published: 2026-11-09
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt) Rafael Rodar had one of the most meteoric rises in tennis, right?

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=6) He was the first tennis player in ATP history to break into the top ten in the very first season he played on the tour.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=14) An unexpected rise, because Rodder was off the radar, hidden away in the North American college circuit.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=20) Even though he won the 2024 US Open Junior title, he wasn't someone people had tipped for big things, right?

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=25) People started watching him around then, after he won the ATP 250 in Marrakech.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=31) Then he starts playing really well and puts together an absurd run of results.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=34) Now that's tennis, Rodder, right, man? Rodder has a very modern game, and I'd say the word that best describes his game is visceral.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=44) He has an incredible hunger for the ball.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=46) He reminds me of two guys, two young tennis players, who, early in their careers, had a similar attitude, right? An absurd hunger to win, but sometimes going too far.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=56) Those two tennis players are none other than Lleyton Hewitt, the former world number one who was Guga's contemporary, and Novak Djokovic.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=62) The guys who weren't really concerned with pleasing people.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=66) But then we see that a guy who's in the top ten, getting the results he gets and with so much room to improve, is going to be a threat, right?

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=72) I can't really say what Rodder's ceiling is, but I think it's very, very high.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=78) He's the first tennis player of this generation under twenty-one to reach the top ten.

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BuWJu0SB1vIL/en/rafael-jodar-s-top-10-rise-and-comparisons-to-djokovic-and-hewitt?t=82) The ones people expected were Learner Tien, Jakub Menšík and especially João Fonseca, But Rodder ended up outranking all three