{"id":526402,"date":"2026-03-10T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526402\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:31:09","slug":"press-conferences-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526402\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Conferences \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner is well-liked everywhere he goes, and he\u2019s always gracious with the media.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean the 24-year-old has to like press conference. Let\u2019s be frank here, press conferences are a part of the job that most athletes tolerate rather than embrace, and we can now be sure that Sinner is firmly in the tolerate camp.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday at Indian Wells, after Sinner defeated Denis Shapovalov, 6-3, 6-2, the Italian was asked what he dislikes most about tennis.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n

\u201cPress conference,\u201d he said. \u201cAnswering always the same questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he slowly backtracked a little, perhaps to make sure he wasn\u2019t hurting the feelings of the reporters in the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s not dislike. It\u2019s just part of the job, you know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sinner says he\u2019s the type of guy who likes to let his racquet do the talking, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. Pete Sampras did it pretty well, and he ended up with 14 Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to get out, play, and then live, you know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sinner, who has four majors, makes it clear that if it was up to him, he\u2019d just play and go home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really have something what I dislike,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m doing this kind of here, media, I\u2019m not the kind of guy who likes it. I don\u2019t want and I don\u2019t need to show.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Italian will get back on the court, where he belongs, on Tuesday night against Joao Fonseca of Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner is well-liked everywhere he goes, and he\u2019s always gracious with the media. That doesn\u2019t mean the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-526402","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\/526402","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=526402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}