{"id":214596,"date":"2025-10-21T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214596\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:39:08","slug":"are-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner-friends-the-duo-have-made-their-stance-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214596\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner friends? The duo have made their stance clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s enthralling rivalry has reached new heights in 2025, and the duo have spoken about the \u201cspecial relationship\u201d they share off the court.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-serve-big-weapon-carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earned a dominant 6-2, 6-4 win against Alcaraz in the final of the Six Kings Slam exhibition in Riyadh on Saturday<\/a> in a repeat of the title match at the inaugural edition of the event in 2024. The Italian also triumphed last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a>, the world No 1, holds a 10-5 head-to-head advantage in official matches with second-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner<\/a>, having won seven of their last eight encounters and four of their five matches in 2025 (includes Sinner\u2019s retirement in the Cincinnati final).<\/p>\n<p>They have played in the last three Grand Slam championship matches, with Alcaraz prevailing at the French Open and the US Open either side of Sinner\u2019s victory at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>The pair are the first players to meet in three consecutive major finals since Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal \u2014 who faced off in four in a row between 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In his on-court interview after the Six Kings Slam final, Sinner spoke about his respect for Alcaraz and his relationship with the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I could play like this everywhere,\u201d the four-time major winner said.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-told-latest-win-over-carlos-alcaraz-limited-value\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Jannik Sinner told latest win over Carlos Alcaraz \u2018has limited value\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-davis-cup-finals-2025-decision-withdrawal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner makes huge decision on his 2025 Davis Cup Finals participation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis season we played many, many times and I also lost many times to Carlos. It is a huge pleasure and honour to share the court with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, you want to get better as a player and you need rivalries in the sport. So it\u2019s nice to have a great rivalry and more importantly a great friendship off the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very special friendship and it\u2019s very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz revealed he stays in touch with Sinner as he shared his thoughts on their friendship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few times I wrote to him just to see how he\u2019s going or to congratulate him. We have a special relationship off the court, which is great,\u201d the 22-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think when two tennis players are competing for great things, giving their best on the court, they cannot have a great friendship off the court and I think we [have seen] it\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Grand Slam winner added: \u201cI always say when he plays such great tennis it gives me motivation to go to the practice court, give 100% and try to be better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes he is annoying, but he gives me extra motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-ranking-no1-carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner uses a bleak word to describe his battle with Carlos Alcaraz for No 1 ranking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s enthralling rivalry has reached new heights in 2025, and the duo have spoken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-214596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214596","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=214596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}