World number one Carlos Alcaraz said Wednesday that he will have to prepare for a new and improved Jannik Sinner after beating his great rival in the US Open final.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Sinner<\/a> admitted he needed to overhaul his “predictable” game after losing to Alcaraz<\/a> in New York earlier this month in the latest of a string of recent defeats to his Spanish nemesis.<\/a><\/p>\n Alcaraz is playing at the Japan Open in Tokyo this week, while Sinner will compete at the China Open in Beijing in his first appearance since the US Open.<\/p>\n Alcaraz said he would need to be ready for a different Sinner next time he faces the world number two on the court.<\/p>\n “I know he’s going to change something from the last match,” said Alcaraz.<\/p>\n “It’s the same thing that I did when I lost to him a couple of times, I tried to be a better player the next time I was going to face him.<\/p>\n “I have to be focused and I have to be ready for that change,” he added.<\/p>\n Alcaraz and Sinner have dominated men’s tennis this season, with the pair contesting all four Grand Slam finals, winning two each.<\/p>\n Alcaraz is only 22 and Sinner is just two years older, and the two look set to monopolize the sport’s top titles for years to come.<\/p>\n “Our rivalry is getting better, which for me and for tennis I would say is great,” said Alcaraz.<\/p>\n “We will see in the future how many times I’m going to play against him and which circumstances we will play.<\/p>\n “Right now, it’s going great.”<\/p>\n Alcaraz heads to Tokyo coming off a surprise loss to American world number five Taylor Fritz<\/a> at the Laver Cup in San Francisco last week.<\/p>\n Fritz is the number two seed in Tokyo, where Denmark’s Holger Rune<\/a>, Norway’s Casper Ruud<\/a> and the Czech Republic’s Tomas Machac<\/a> will also compete.<\/p>\n Alcaraz has won the French Open as well as the US Open this year and he said it had been “the best season that I’ve ever done”.<\/p>\n “I’ve seen myself that I’ve grown up a lot as a player on the court,” he said.<\/p>\n “For me, it could be better, of course it could be better, but I can’t complain about the season I’m having so far.”<\/p>\n Alcaraz is playing at the Japan Open for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n He said he wanted to play in Tokyo to “see the culture and see everything here”.<\/p>\n “I’m really excited about playing in different places, in different stadiums, and feel the energy from the Japanese people,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Carlos Alcaraz said Wednesday that he will have to prepare for a new and improved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-165804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}