{"id":78762,"date":"2025-08-19T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78762\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:24:09","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-all-class-as-jannik-sinner-suffers-20-minute-heartbreak-in-cincinnati-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78762\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz all class as Jannik Sinner suffers 20-minute \u2018heartbreak\u2019 in Cincinnati Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">US Open champion and world No.1 Jannik Sinner has provided a scare before next week\u2019s tournament after he retired from the Cincinnati Open final against Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">However, illness rather than injury appeared to be the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Sinner was only on court for 24 minutes, but was out of sorts in hot conditions in Ohio and broken three times by rival Alcaraz to trail 5-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-cvgehw-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" alt=\"Download today\" height=\"14\" width=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">With Alcaraz about to serve for the set, four-time grand slam champion Sinner called for the trainer and decided to quit to hand the world No.2 a maiden Cincinnati Open title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Sinner apologised to the fans before his usual speech acknowledging his opponent and their teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI\u2019m super, super sorry to disappoint you,\u201d Sinner said in his on-court address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cFrom yesterday I didn\u2019t feel great, I thought I would improve during the night, but it came up worse. I tried to come out and make it at least a small match but I couldn\u2019t handle more. I\u2019m very, very sorry for all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Spaniard wrote \u201csorry Jannik\u201d on the camera before he briefly consoled the Italian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWell, yeah it is not the way I want to win matches, to win trophies and I have to say sorry,\u201d Alcaraz said<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI can\u2019t understand how he feels right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI said many, many times you are a true champion and I am pretty sure from this situation you will come back better and stronger like you always do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Sinner, who turned 24 on Saturday, was on 12-match winning streak and had won 26 straight matches on hard courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Alcaraz now holds a 9-5 advantage in his matches between the pair.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/alex-de-minaur-absent-from-us-open-mixed-doubles-as-nick-kyrgios-withdraws-c-19727564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Aussies nowhere to be seen as \u2018pretty please\u2019 request denied by US Open<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">3 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/bobby-hill-situation-escalates-as-family-and-friends-really-worried-c-19724333\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Bobby Hill situation escalates as family and friends \u2018really worried\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">2 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Open champion and world No.1 Jannik Sinner has provided a scare before next week\u2019s tournament after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,1625,3863,588,85,747,1751],"class_list":{"0":"post-78762","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-lifestyle","11":"tag-sponsored-content","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78762","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=78762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}