{"id":293003,"date":"2025-11-18T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293003\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:07:08","slug":"jannik-sinner-defeats-carlos-alcaraz-to-make-tennis-history-result-highlights-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293003\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner defeats Carlos Alcaraz to make tennis history, result, highlights, world rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner cut a delighted figure 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

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With it, Sinner became the first player in the event\u2019s 55-year history to win the ATP Tour Finals without conceding a set in multiple and consecutive years. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s (an) amazing season… This year making four Grand Slam finals, coming here, winning here, having this big streak in end of the year, it\u2019s amazing,\u201d Sinner told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut mostly I feel to be a better player than last year, I think this is the most important. It\u2019s 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\u2019re going to come. This year it was like this.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Sinner collapsed to the ground with a mixture of joy and relief after sealing his triumph at the season-ending tournament where he hasn\u2019t 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

\u201cI 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,\u201d added Sinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut 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

\u201cThis year it was a more powerful feeling for a variety of reasons. It was a really emotional moment.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sinner destroys Demon to move into final | 01:13<\/p>\n

Sinner\u2019s 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

\u201cRight 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\u2019m really disappointed in,\u201d said Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say that was the key because it was a really important moment that I didn\u2019t finish the point with the backhand volley… I think that was a really important shot that I didn\u2019t do well today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner cut a delighted figure after he finished a turbulent season in the best possible fashion, seeing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-293003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}