{"id":371388,"date":"2025-12-25T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/371388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:45:08","slug":"carlos-alcarazs-dig-at-sinner-as-he-shares-presents-for-tennis-rivals-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/371388\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz’s dig at Sinner as he shares presents for tennis rivals | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz took a swipe at Jannik Sinner’s<\/a> pale complexion when describing Christmas gifts he would buy for his tennis rivals. The Spaniard has enjoyed a majorly successful 2025 season, winning the French and US Open<\/a> titles and ending the year as world No. 1 in tennis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz’s familiar foe Sinner claimed the other two major titles at the Australian Open<\/a> and Wimbledon<\/a>. However, the 22-year-old had a trick up his sleeve for the Italian tennis<\/a> star when asked what he’d buy his rivals for Christmas. Making a dig at Sinner’s pale skin, Alcaraz told tennis.com: “I would give Sinner a pair of ski boots and sunscreen for his skin.”<\/p>\n

Sinner wasn’t the only one Alcaraz thought of when playing the role of Santa Clause. He also had Rafael Nadal<\/a> and Novak Djokovic<\/a> in mind when picking out some presents.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard added: “[I’d give] a good Iberian ham from Spain to Djokovic; and a few good bottles of wine to Nadal.”<\/p>\n

Alcaraz will probably stick to tennis over gift-giving as he prepares for yet another big tennis season in 2026. However, he will be taking on this new year without a reliable face by his side in the stands.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old parted ways with longtime coach Juan Carlos Ferrero in a move that has shocked the tennis world. Alcaraz is yet to give a reason for the split but thanked Ferrero for his services in a poignant statement.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz said: “Thank you for turning childhood dreams into realities. We started this journey when I was barely a kid, and throughout all this time you’ve accompanied me on an incredible journey, on and off the court.<\/p>\n

“I’ve enjoyed every step of it so much with you.”<\/p>\n

Responding to the Spaniard’s statement, Ferrero said: “I wish I could have continued. I am convinced that good memories and good people always find a way to cross paths again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz took a swipe at Jannik Sinner’s pale complexion when describing Christmas gifts he would buy for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,962,754,3592,964,85,747,6414],"class_list":{"0":"post-371388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-novak-djokovic","13":"tag-rafael-nadal","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-tennis-section"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371388","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=371388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}