{"id":210344,"date":"2025-10-19T05:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210344\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T05:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:32:08","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-details-jannik-sinners-key-change-in-six-kings-slam-thrashing-i-could-feel-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210344\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz details Jannik Sinner\u2019s key change in Six Kings Slam thrashing: \u2018I could feel it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> said he felt \u201cunder pressure\u201d as a result of Jannik Sinner<\/a>\u2019s improved serve as the Italian responded to his defeat in the US Open final with a 6-2 6-4 destruction of the World No 1 to win the Six Kings Slam exhibition in Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n

After working on his service motion following his defeat to Alcaraz in New York last month, Sinner won 80 per cent of his service points and did not allow his rival a single break point as he cruised to a dominant win<\/a> in just 73 minutes to win the $6m total prize for a second time. <\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Sinner admitted after his US Open final defeat that he had to make \u201cchanges\u201d <\/a>to his game and, while the Riyadh altitude gave Sinner\u2019s serve some extra pop, Alcaraz said he could \u201cfeel\u201d how his shot had developed since their last meeting. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe played great today. He didn’t let me get a good rhythm,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cHe was improving a lot, the serve, and I could feel it. No break points today, which for me is something weird. I\u2019m used to at least one break point in the match. But when he’s serving really good it’s really difficult. I couldn’t find a solution today, so I think he deserved it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sinner also won over 80 per cent of his service points in his 6-2 6-4 win over Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the semi-finals, and said after that match: \u201cWe worked a lot in the past month, we’re serving hours and hours.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sinner broke Alcaraz\u2019s serve in the opening game of the match and broke again to lead 4-1, converting his advantage to win the set. Alcaraz faced constant pressure to hold in the second set but held on until Sinner broke him to lead 4-3. Sinner did not blink as he closed out his victory with a love-hold. <\/p>\n

While Sinner\u2019s win over Alcaraz won\u2019t count towards the rankings race or their head-to-head record, the Italian had just one victory over the six-time grand slam champion in his previous eight attempts. This was his second win over Alcaraz in the final of the Six Kings Slam, however, adding to last year\u2019s triumph. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Jannik is playing at this level, it\u2019s always difficult. I think everybody could enjoy his tennis today,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cIt was really high level of tennis. Sometimes it seems like he’s playing ping pong. It’s not funny, to be honest, being at the other side of the net<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut I always said that. When he plays such great tennis, it gives me motivation just to then go to the practice court, give him 100 per cent, try to be better. Sometimes he’s annoying, but at the same time he gives me extra motivation.\u201d <\/p>\n

The victory sets up Sinner to make a push towards the year-end ATP Finals, where he may also benefit from the altitude and indoor conditions in front of his home fans in Turin. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s always nice to share the court with Carlos,\u201d Sinner said. \u201cYou\u2019ve done an incredible job throughout the whole season, working very hard, winning incredible titles, title after title. So thanks actually for leaving one also for me at the moment! <\/p>\n

\u201cI lost also many times against Carlos, it\u2019s a huge pleasure and an honour to share the court with him, but at the same time, you want to get better as a tennis player. It’s nice to have a great rivalry and also, more importantly, a great friendship off the court, and we have a very, very special, special friendship.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-210344","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\/210344","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=210344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}