{"id":127110,"date":"2025-09-10T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127110\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:00:07","slug":"donald-trumps-verdict-on-alcaraz-sinner-as-he-reacts-to-us-open-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127110\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s verdict on Alcaraz &#038; Sinner as he reacts to US Open reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has praised the \u201cunbelievable talent\u201d of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner following his attendance at the US Open final contested between the two this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/is-donald-trump-a-tennis-fan-and-why-is-he-at-the-us-open-final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a guest of Rolex at the US Open men\u2019s singles final<\/a> between Alcaraz and Sinner, the third straight major final between the ATP\u2019s two dominant forces.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s appearance at the final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/us-open\/trump-chaos-usopen-delay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caused a 40-minute delay to the start of the championship match due to additional security checks<\/a>, with some fans not making it into the Arthur Ashe Stadium until after the match had started.<\/p>\n<p>However, the delay clearly did not faze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a>, who produced a scintillating performance to down his Italian rival in four sets, winning his second US Open title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/atp-rankings-alcaraz-topples-sinner-djokovic-auger-aliassime-14-tiafoe-12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and reclaiming the world No 1 ranking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A long-time tennis fan, Trump was a US Open regular for the best part of three decades, though he had not attended the event since 2015 ahead of the final.<\/p>\n<p>And, asked about his experience during a press call earlier this week, POTUS heaped praise on both Alcaraz and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I loved it,\u201d said Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, the two players [Alcaraz and Sinner] have unbelievable talent. It just seemed that they hit the ball harder than I\u2019ve ever seen before. Incredible talent \u2014 and I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to go all the time, but lately it\u2019s a little bit more difficult to go. I really enjoyed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tennis News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinners-next-tournaments-when-could-they-meet-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s next tournaments: When could they meet again?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinners-full-press-conference-makes-predictable-confession-ready-lose-matches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner\u2019s full press conference as he makes confession about being \u2018ready to lose matches\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s last appearance at the US Open came shortly after he started his first presidential campaign back in 2015, attending the women\u2019s singles quarter-final between Venus and Serena Williams.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, POTUS was widely booed by the Arthur Ashe crowd, and the potential crowd reaction to the 79-year-old was a key talking point in the build-up to Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>Reports emerged ahead of the match that TV broadcasters had been instructed to mute any crowd reaction when Trump appeared on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage recorded inside the stadium suggested there was booing directed towards the President when he appeared on screen, though he himself claimed the fans were \u201cnice\u201d to him during his time inside the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThey were really nice, the fans were really nice. I didn\u2019t know what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually, you would say that would be a somewhat progressive \u2014 as they would say, nowadays \u2014 crowd. Some people would call it liberal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, we\u2019ll use the word they like to use, progressive, but they were great, the fans were great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/aryna-sabalenka-accidentally-calls-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Aryna Sabalenka accidentally calls Carlos Alcaraz \u2018Jannik\u2019 as they reflect on US Open glory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has praised the \u201cunbelievable talent\u201d of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner following his attendance at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-127110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}