{"id":27764,"date":"2025-11-17T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27764"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:04:04","slug":"sinner-hails-amazing-atp-finals-triumph-over-alcaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27764","title":{"rendered":"Sinner hails ‘amazing’ ATP Finals triumph over Alcaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jannik Sinner cut a delighted figure on Sunday after he finished a turbulent season in the best possible fashion, seeing off rival Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets to retain his ATP Finals title.<\/p>\n

Italian Sinner was roared to a 7-6 (7\/4), 7-5 victory by supporters in Turin, who watched their idol cap a landmark season in which he became the first of his countrymen to win Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

“It’s (an) amazing season… This year making four Grand Slam finals, coming here, winning here, having this big streak in end of the year, it’s amazing,” Sinner told reporters.<\/p>\n

“But mostly I feel to be a better player than last year, I think this is the most important. It’s all part of the process. I always say and believe that if you keep working and trying to be a better player, the results, they’re going to come. This year it was like this.”<\/p>\n

Sinner collapsed to the ground with a mixture of joy and relief after sealing his triumph at the season-ending tournament where he hasn’t lost a match since being beaten in the 2023 final by Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n

The win brought to a close a year in which the 24-year-old had to bounce back from a three-month ban, which chopped out a large chunk of his season despite the World Anti-Doping Agency accepting that the Italian was accidentally contaminated with banned substance clostebol in March 2024.<\/p>\n

“I was thinking about a lot and at the same time not a lot. There was a lot of tension because if I lost that point we go into a tie-break and then it becomes a different match,” added Sinner.<\/p>\n

“But in that moment I was probably more relieved about the end of the season. I had a similar feeling last year but it was different.<\/p>\n

“This year it was a more powerful feeling for a variety of reasons. It was a really emotional moment.”<\/p>\n

Sinner’s win was his second over Alcaraz this year and a big moment after he lost the year-end world number one spot to the Spaniard, who won eight tournaments this year and took his Grand Slam tally to six.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz was left to rue missed opportunities at key moments of a typically tight match between the two best players in the world, with his backhand failing him when he had chances to strike.<\/p>\n

“Right now I have some points and some shots on my mind. For example, the backhand volley that I missed. I missed a few of the backhand volleys… which I’m really disappointed in,” said Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

“I would say that was the key because it was a really important moment that I didn’t finish the point with the backhand volley… I think that was a really important shot that I didn’t do well today.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner cut a delighted figure on Sunday after he finished a turbulent season in the best possible fashion, seeing off rival Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets to retain his ATP Finals title. Italian Sinner was roared to a 7-6 (7\/4), 7-5 victory by supporters in Turin, who watched their idol cap a landmark season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}