{"id":76360,"date":"2025-08-18T21:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76360\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:50:04","slug":"jannik-sinner-provides-concerning-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76360\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner provides concerning update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miguel<\/p>\n

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Jannik Sinner<\/a>\u2019s preparations for his US Open<\/a> defence have been disrupted by illness after the World No 1 was forced to retire from his Cincinnati Open<\/a> final against young rival Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, lasting just five games. <\/p>\n

Sinner was clearly out of sorts on a hot day in Ohio and lost his serve three times before pulling out from the match. The 24-year-old apologised to the crowd and confirmed he started feeling ill the day before, with his condition worsening on the day of the final. <\/p>\n

The Italian looks certain to withdraw from the new-look US Open mixed doubles tournament, where he is scheduled to partner Katerina Siniakova<\/a> on the opening afternoon of the controversially revamped event <\/a>on Tuesday in New York. <\/p>\n

A greater concern will be whether Sinner is fit to start his US Open singles campaign in Flushing Meadows, but the defending champion did allay fears that he had picked up an injury before the grand slam by confirming he had been struck down by illness. <\/p>\n

\u201cUsually I start with the opponent but today I have to start with you guys [the crowd],\u201d Sinner said during the peculiar trophy ceremony, as Alcaraz was crowned the champion in strange scenes<\/a> in Cincinnati. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super super sorry to disappoint you. From yesterday I didn\u2019t feel great. I thought I would improve during the night. It came up worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to come out and make it at least a small match but I couldn\u2019t handle more. I\u2019m very very sorry for all of you. I know some of you on Monday maybe had to work or do something else, so I\u2019m very, very sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Sinner and Alcaraz met in the French Open and Wimbledon finals, fans were hoping for a repeat as the young rivals prepared for their first hard-court final in Ohio. <\/p>\n

Sinner carried a 26-match hard-court winning run into the final but it was not competitive as he struggled with his movement and the timing of his groundstrokes. <\/p>\n

\u201cOf course Carlos congrats,\u201d Sinner said. \u201cAnother title. Not the way you wanted to win but it\u2019s amazing what kind of season you\u2019re producing. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou and your whole team are doing amazing. Keep it up. I wish you only all the best for the US Open and the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AlcarazAlcaraz comforts Sinner after his sudden retirement from the match (Getty)<\/p>\n

Alcaraz also had kind words for his rival, and said to Sinner: \u201cAs you said Jannik this isn\u2019t the way I want to win matches, to win a trophy. I just gotta say sorry. I know and understand how you can feel right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I can say\u2026 as I said many many times, you are truly a champion. I\u2019m pretty sure from this situation you\u2019re gonna come back better, even stronger. You always do. That\u2019s what true champions do. You really are one. Sorry and come back stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter and get behind-the-scenes access and unrivalled insightJoin the Miguel Delaney: Inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-76360","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\/76360","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=76360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}