\u201cI want to start with Jannik. It\u2019s unbelievable what you are doing during the whole season. Great level during every tournament you are playing. I see you more than my family!\u201d the newly-crowned champion smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to share the court, to share the locker rooms, to share everything with you. Watching you improve every day, working really hard with your team, really great people around. So just congratulations for everything you are doing and great performance for the whole week.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a statement fortnight for Alcaraz, who didn\u2019t drop a set on his way to the final<\/a> and ended the tournament having only been broken three times. And he credited his team and family for helping him become a better player and a better man.<\/p>\n The Spanish superstar continued: \u201cMy team, my family, I\u2019m lucky. I\u2019m really lucky to have you guys, to be honest. The hard work you are making just to make me even better, not only in the professional part but in the personal part as well, I am just really proud about the people I have around.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you very much, every achievement that I am having is because of you, is thanks to you, so this one is also yours. I just wanted to say thank you to my team.<\/p>\n \u201cI am really lucky to have part of my family here as well, my brother, my uncle, my father, I love you. My mum, my little brothers who are watching at home, I love you as well. It\u2019s great support I\u2019m receiving from you, so thank you so much.\u201d<\/p>\n Both Alcaraz and Sinner also thanked the fans and the tournament staff, and gave special shoutouts to tournament director Stacey Allaster, who is stepping down from her role at the end of this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to leave without saying anything to Stacey. You made everything easy for us since the first time that I came here,\u201d Alcaraz added. \u201cFrom the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you and see you soon.\u201d<\/p>\n Sinner also started his speech with a message to Alcaraz and his team. \u201cYou are doing amazing, congrats. I know it\u2019s a lot of hard work behind this performance today. You were better than me. Congrats, enjoy it, it\u2019s a great moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n “Then of course, my team, thank you for supporting me, for understanding me, for working hard.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all know how much dedication we put in to be here on this stage and it has been an incredible season, a lot of big stages and matches we played throughout the season and I\u2019m super, super happy to share this occasion with you. I tried my best today, I couldn\u2019t do more. So thank you for the support.\u201d<\/p>\n Turning to address Allaster, he added: \u201cI know this is your last year, so it has been an incredible run, you always try to do your best for us and we are all very sad that you won\u2019t be here next year.\u201d<\/p>\n To be the first to receive the latest tennis news, join our WhatsApp community<\/a> or newsletter<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI want to start with Jannik. It\u2019s unbelievable what you are doing during the whole season. Great level…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11915,11912,11913,111,139,69,213,11917,11914,11916],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alcaraz-vs-sinner","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-tennis-news","tag-us-open","tag-us-open-final"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}