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
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Alcaraz 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":"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":93850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-93849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93849","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=93849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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