{"id":13414,"date":"2025-07-16T05:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13414\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:18:03","slug":"jimmy-connors-heard-what-carlos-alcaraz-shouted-during-the-wimbledon-final-which-he-never-would-have-admitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13414\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Connors heard what Carlos Alcaraz shouted during the Wimbledon final which he never would have admitted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carlos Alcaraz suffered his first loss at Wimbledon since 2022 and both defeats came against the same player.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard\u2019s 20-match win streak at the All-England Club came to an end courtesy of world number one Jannik Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Italian lost the first set in Sunday\u2019s final, but Sinner produced a stellar comeback to defeat Alcaraz<\/a> 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n

Sinner avenged his agonising French Open defeat<\/a> and now has four Grand Slam titles to his name, one behind Alcaraz\u2019s tally of five.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesJimmy Connors says he would never admit his opponent was playing better like Carlos Alcaraz did at Wimbledon<\/p>\n

During the 2025 Wimbledon final, Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s<\/a> frustrations began to boil over.<\/p>\n

After taking the first set the 22-year-old lost control of the match as Sinner grew in confidence and began playing more aggressive and front-foot tennis.<\/p>\n

This prompted Alcaraz to say to his team during the match that Sinner was playing better than him, a significant admission from a high-quality player in the middle of tennis\u2019 biggest match.<\/p>\n

During his podcast, two-time Wimbledon champion Jimmy Connors <\/a>said he would never make the same admission Alcaraz did.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a tough thing to admit. I don\u2019t know if I would ever have admitted that. No matter what you have to get in there, mix up your game a bit, or try and do something a bit different,\u201d Connors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I say that a lot but if your game number one is not winning you have to figure something else out. I got my a\u2014 handed to me a couple of times at Wimbledon too. Everybody does.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if you are going to beat me you are going to have to beat me. I am trying to play three different games so if you are beating me at game one or game two, I am trying to do something different. You may not see it from the stands, but that is a tough thing to admit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesWhat Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s admission and loss to Jannik Sinner at Wimbledon mean moving forward\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sinner snapped a five-match losing streak against Alcaraz by beating him in the Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n

He also maintained his unbeaten record against the world number two at Wimbledon<\/a> after he beat Alcaraz in their fourth round encounter back in 2022.<\/p>\n

Following Alcaraz\u2019s admission during the Wimbledon final and the match outcome, Connors wonders what effect this will have on both players moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he is admitting that in the finals of Wimbledon, what does that do for Sinner\u2019s confidence for what is upcoming?,\u201d Connors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hard courts are not as slow as Roland Garros, the hard courts are more like the Wimbledon court, they are going to be a little faster.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo boy, that is going to be interesting to see over the rest of the summer how that affects both of them.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz suffered his first loss at Wimbledon since 2022 and both defeats came against the same player.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2073,12685,99,428,96],"class_list":["post-13414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jimmy-connors","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}