{"id":209622,"date":"2025-10-18T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209622\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:13:13","slug":"jannik-sinner-reveals-he-looks-up-to-legend-novak-djokovic-and-rival-carlos-alcaraz-ahead-of-six-kings-slam-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209622\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner reveals he &#8216;looks up to&#8217; legend Novak Djokovic and rival Carlos Alcaraz ahead of Six Kings Slam final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typo-tk-rs-caption-xs\">Highlights: World No. 204 Vacherot stuns Djokovic in straight sets<\/p>\n<p class=\"typo-tk-rs-caption-xs\">Video credit: SNTV<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"typo-tk-rs-body-md focus-visible:text-focused-text-fill-01 focus-visible:bg-focused-surface-fill-01 hover:underline focus-visible:outline-none text-content-block-default-text-fill-04 hover:text-content-block-default-text-fill-01 active:text-content-block-default-text-fill-03\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tntsports.co.uk\/tennis\/jannik-sinner_prs532891\/person.shtml\" data-testid=\"body-hyper-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> emphasised the importance of having rivals after acknowledging that he looks up to <a class=\"typo-tk-rs-body-md focus-visible:text-focused-text-fill-01 focus-visible:bg-focused-surface-fill-01 hover:underline focus-visible:outline-none text-content-block-default-text-fill-04 hover:text-content-block-default-text-fill-01 active:text-content-block-default-text-fill-03\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tntsports.co.uk\/tennis\/novak-djokovic_prs30062\/person.shtml\" data-testid=\"body-hyper-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> and <a class=\"typo-tk-rs-body-md focus-visible:text-focused-text-fill-01 focus-visible:bg-focused-surface-fill-01 hover:underline focus-visible:outline-none text-content-block-default-text-fill-04 hover:text-content-block-default-text-fill-01 active:text-content-block-default-text-fill-03\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tntsports.co.uk\/tennis\/carlos-alcaraz_prs555363\/person.shtml\" data-testid=\"body-hyper-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.The Italian star will face the world No. 1 in the final of the Six Kings Slam, having <a class=\"typo-tk-rs-body-md focus-visible:text-focused-text-fill-01 focus-visible:bg-focused-surface-fill-01 hover:underline focus-visible:outline-none text-content-block-default-text-fill-04 hover:text-content-block-default-text-fill-01 active:text-content-block-default-text-fill-03\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tntsports.co.uk\/tennis\/novak-djokovic-jannik-sinner-loss-intimidate-crowd-apology_sto23231945\/story.shtml\" data-testid=\"body-hyper-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">defeated Djokovic 6-4 6-2 in the semi-finals in Riyadh.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sinner and Alcaraz have dominated the sport during the 2025 season, going head-to-head in three of this year\u2019s four Grand Slam finals.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 2 insists that the two greats of the game have motivated him to improve in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, it\u2019s very important to improve,&#8221; <a class=\"typo-tk-rs-body-md focus-visible:text-focused-text-fill-01 focus-visible:bg-focused-surface-fill-01 hover:underline focus-visible:outline-none text-content-block-default-text-fill-04 hover:text-content-block-default-text-fill-01 active:text-content-block-default-text-fill-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-honest-confession-looking-up-to-carlos-alcaraz-novak-djokovic-six-kings-slam\" data-testid=\"body-hyper-link\">said Sinner<\/a> during an interview on Netflix following his victory over Djokovic at the Six Kings Slam. &#8220;That\u2019s, for me, the most important.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of my career, I would love to say I did everything possible to achieve 100% of myself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-transparent h-full w-full object-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-6316e497-2bec-4f3f-b16e-1ee6d32d4ab5-85-2560-1440.png\" alt=\"picture\" data-testid=\"image-high-res\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"typo-tk-rs-caption-xs\">Highlights: Vacherot completes Shanghai fairytale in battle of cousins<\/p>\n<p class=\"typo-tk-rs-caption-xs\">Video credit: SNTV<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Success will never change me as a person. This is also very important. You need rivalries. You need better players than you. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carlos is an all-around player. An incredible talent. We saw this today on court. Drop shots\u2026 he can do everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look up to these guys. I look up to Novak. I look up to Carlos. To have a point where I can say, \u2018Okay, it\u2019s very important for me to improve\u2019, this is exactly what motivates me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sinner now has four Grand Slams to his name after winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year.<\/p>\n<p>He also reached the final of the French Open and US Open, but fell to defeat against Alcaraz on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have <a class=\"typo-tk-rs-body-md focus-visible:text-focused-text-fill-01 focus-visible:bg-focused-surface-fill-01 hover:underline focus-visible:outline-none text-content-block-default-text-fill-04 hover:text-content-block-default-text-fill-01 active:text-content-block-default-text-fill-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/atp-head-2-head\/jannik-sinner-vs-carlos-alcaraz\/s0ag\/a0e2\" data-testid=\"body-hyper-link\">met 15 times on the ATP Tour<\/a>, with Sinner winning five of those encounters, and his Spanish rival coming out on top in 10.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner believes their match at the Six Kings Slam is sure to be another entertaining battle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward every time we face each other,&#8221; he said during his on-court interview following the triumph over Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s great for us. It\u2019s gonna be a great battle. I\u2019ll try to be as ready as I can. It\u2019s obviously a huge honour to play against him again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m looking forward to it. I hope you guys do also. We all hope for a great Saturday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch and stream top tennis action, including the 2026 Australian Open, live on TNT Sports and <a class=\"typo-tk-rs-body-md focus-visible:text-focused-text-fill-01 focus-visible:bg-focused-surface-fill-01 hover:underline focus-visible:outline-none text-content-block-default-text-fill-04 hover:text-content-block-default-text-fill-01 active:text-content-block-default-text-fill-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discoveryplus.com\/gb\/en\/watch-tnt-sports-on-discoveryplus?utm_campaign=UK-TNT-D1-TNT-C7-TNT-BAU-DR-W-Tennis-Atp-250101-NA&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=tntsports.co.uk&amp;utm_content=story-content-text-subscribe\" data-testid=\"body-hyper-link\">discovery+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highlights: World No. 204 Vacherot stuns Djokovic in straight sets Video credit: SNTV Jannik Sinner emphasised the importance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[870,811,6766,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-209622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209622","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=209622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}