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<\/p>\nWill Alcaraz, Sinner or Rublev catch the Doha title?<\/p>\n
Four ATP stars went fishing in Qatar<\/p>\n
February 18, 2026<\/p>\n
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Qatar Tennis<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner, Andrey Rublev, Daniil Medvedev and Carlos Alcaraz went fishing Sunday in Doha.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Who will cast their line for Doha glory this week?<\/p>\n
\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/a>, Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Andrey Rublev<\/a> are among those competing at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open<\/a>, where the superstars swapped their racquets for fishing rods ahead of the ATP 500 tournament. Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, who fell to Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> in the second round, was also part of the fishing fun on Sunday. <\/p>\n The lighthearted outing made waves on social media, with fans enjoying everything from Sinner\u2019s catch of the day to clips of the four rivals sharing laughs.<\/p>\n Alcaraz and Sinner are both vying for their first Doha crown. The Italian is making his first appearance while Alcaraz is competing in Qatar for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n “It was very quick, it was one and a half hours, but we had a lot of fun,” Sinner said of the fishing trip after his opening win in Doha. “Doing something different, but also getting to know each other a little bit better. We talked about different stuff. It was nice to share this moment with all the other players. We had a great atmosphere.<\/p>\n “This helps also before tournaments, and also to do something different to relax. It was a nice experience. It was the first time that I went fishing, so it was something new also for me.”<\/p>\n \nAlcaraz recently won the Australian Open<\/a> to complete the Career Grand Slam and extend his lead over Sinner in the battle for World No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings. Should Alcaraz and Sinner meet in the Doha final, it would mark their first clash in 2026 and 17th Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting overall.<\/p>\n Rublev is the defending champion in Doha, having also triumphed in 2020. He is seeded to meet Alcaraz in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Alcaraz, Sinner or Rublev catch the Doha title? Four ATP stars went fishing in Qatar February 18,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-488860","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\/488860","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=488860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Carlos Alcaraz fishing in Doha Sunday.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2026\/02\/17\/19\/30\/alcaraz-doha-2026-fishing.jpg”><\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner fishing in Doha Sunday.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2026\/02\/17\/19\/26\/sinner-doha-2026-fishing.jpg”><\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, Andrey Rublev<\/a> and Jannik Sinner<\/a> take a selfie on a fishing boat Sunday in Doha.” style=”width:100%;” src=”https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/-\/media\/images\/news\/2026\/02\/17\/19\/30\/alcaraz-medvedev-rublev-sinner-doha-2026-fishing-selfie.jpg”>
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