{"id":224191,"date":"2025-10-19T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224191\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:41:08","slug":"sinner-retains-six-kings-slam-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224191\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner retains Six Kings Slam title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner<\/a> won the most lucrative tennis match of the year Saturday night in Riyadh. With an emphatic 6-2, 6-4 victory over Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, the Italian secured his second consecutive Six Kings Slam title, pocketing a staggering $6 million prize \u2013\u00a0the largest in tennis history.<\/p>\n

This amount represents half of his prize money earned on the regular Tour in 2025, a remarkable comparison considering it was won in only four days and three matches.<\/p>\n

There were no cracks, hesitation, or weak spots in Sinner\u2019s game in this final. His serve and return were untouchable, his movement suffocating, and his shot-making impeccable from every corner of the court.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Italian lost only eight points on his serve overall, despite an average first-serve percentage of 61%. In contrast, Alcaraz faced 10 break points and conceded three breaks over nine service games.<\/p>\n

Sinner now holds back-to-back titles at the Six Kings Slam, a showcase event featuring six of the biggest names in tennis. Earlier the same day, Taylor Fritz defeated Novak Djokovic in the third-place match (7-6, ret.). Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas had been eliminated in the quarterfinals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s playing ping-pong\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he liked facing Sinner when he played that well, Alcaraz admitted with a laugh, \u201cNot really. Sometimes it seems like he\u2019s playing ping pong. It\u2019s not fun being on the other side of the net.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\u201cIt\u2019s always nice to share the court with Carlos,\u201d Sinner said after lifting the trophy again. \u201cTo see your whole team here, the incredible job you\u2019re doing, winning title after title \u2013\u00a0thanks for leaving one for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what makes him play so well in the Saudi capital, Sinner smiled: \u201cThat\u2019s a good question. I wish I could play like this everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s the conditions, the atmosphere, the money involved, or simply the motivation of facing Alcaraz, the outcome was unmistakable: Sinner was operating on another level. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you practice, do you think about improving your game for the next time you play him?\u201d the interviewer asked Sinner, referring to their last encounter at the US Open final a month ago, where Sinner was outplayed by Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz : \u201cHe gives me motivation\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only maybe,\u201d Sinner replied. \u201cYou think about that a lot. That\u2019s exactly why you need Carlos and many other players\u2014to keep improving, to keep looking up. Especially this season, we\u2019ve played many times. You need rivalries. It\u2019s nice to have a great rivalry and, more importantly, a great friendship off the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz nodded beside him. \u201cSometimes he\u2019s annoying,\u201d he said with a grin, \u201cbut he gives me motivation. When he plays great tennis, it pushes me to give my 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their next meeting will be at the ATP Finals in November, or possibly at the Rolex Paris Masters starting October 27. Media reports suggest Sinner might skip the Paris tournament to increase his chances of defending his crown in Turin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner won the most lucrative tennis match of the year Saturday night in Riyadh. With an emphatic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-224191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224191","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=224191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}