{"id":355009,"date":"2025-08-18T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355009\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:27:10","slug":"cincinnati-open-jannik-sinner-retires-from-carlos-alcaraz-final-with-injury-six-days-before-us-open-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355009\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open: Jannik Sinner retires from Carlos Alcaraz final with injury six days before US Open begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner told the crowd: &#8220;I&#8217;m super sorry to disappoint you. From yesterday I didn&#8217;t feel great, I thought I would improve but it came up worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I tried to come out, to make it at least a small match, but I couldn&#8217;t handle more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am very sorry for all of you. I know that maybe some of you, on a Monday, you had to work, had to do something else, so I&#8217;m really sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a first Cincinnati title for Alcaraz and a seventh triumph of the season overall &#8211; but as he said afterwards, this is not the way he would have wanted to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t say anything you don&#8217;t know already. You will come back even stronger like you always do,&#8221; Alcaraz said to Sinner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s what true champions do and you are one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner, Alcaraz and women&#8217;s finalist Iga Swiatek are all due to play in the US Open mixed doubles on Tuesday in New York &#8211; but it seems unlikely Sinner will now pair up with Katerina Siniakova as planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singles main draw at Flushing Meadows begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner told the crowd: &#8220;I&#8217;m super sorry to disappoint you. From yesterday I didn&#8217;t feel great, I thought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-355009","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115051655557312373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}