{"id":543539,"date":"2025-11-02T05:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543539\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T05:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:40:28","slug":"jannik-sinner-ignoring-carlos-alcaraz-battle-as-coach-says-we-wont-speak-about-that-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543539\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner ignoring Carlos Alcaraz battle as coach says ‘we won’t speak about that’ | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner<\/a> is one win away from overtaking his biggest rival, Carlos Alcaraz, in the rankings and returning to No. 1 in the world. Sinner arrived at the Paris Masters with an outside chance of reclaiming the top spot but his luck changed when Alcaraz suffered a shock early exit.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Italian has repeatedly insisted that he isn\u2019t thinking about surpassing Alcaraz in the race for No. 1, and his coach says the topic is off limits. Sinner doubled down after thrashing an ailing Alexander Zverev<\/a> 6-0 6-1 in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

If the four-time Major winner can beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in Sunday\u2019s final<\/a>, he\u2019ll move ahead of Alcaraz in the rankings and create a 250-point gap at the top. But Sinner downplayed the importance of the No. 1 position after his semi-final victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all a consequence of how I\u2019m going to play tomorrow. I\u2019m very focused on trying to play as good as I can. If it happens, good. If not, it\u2019s, you know, next time,\u201d the 24-year-old said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it happens good, if not, it’s next time. It’s not changing that much if you become No. 1 in the world for one or two weeks. So in any case, from my side and my point of view, it has been an incredible season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if Sinner returns to the top spot on Monday, the race for the year-end No. 1 will heat up at the ATP Finals in Turin, where he is the defending champion. Alcaraz won just one round-robin match at the season-ending event last year and was eliminated in the group stage, so he has a better chance of gaining extra points.<\/p>\n

Sinner isn\u2019t the only one who is ignoring the rankings battle as his coach, Darren Cahill, revealed that they weren\u2019t talking about it within the team.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sports before the world No. 2 beat Zverev in the semis, Cahill explained: \u201cIt\u2019s been an interesting year for us, he\u2019s the winner of two Grand Slam titles, the Wimbledon<\/a> champion. So for us, that\u2019s incredible effort, what he\u2019s been able to achieve so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not spoken about it, we will not speak about it. He\u2019s too far away from it to even consider it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe keeps talking about one day at a time, and honestly, I know it\u2019s a cliche, but it\u2019s the easiest way for us to keep things simple, especially when he\u2019s not feeling his best and he\u2019s a little bit tired.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Sinner has admittedly \u201cnot been 100 per cent\u201d<\/a> in Paris this week, he needed just over an hour to send defending champion Zverev packing in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Zverev was struggling with an ankle issue and told his team that he was having trouble moving. He called the doctor early in the second set and took anti-inflammatories but lost 6-0 6-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner is one win away from overtaking his biggest rival, Carlos Alcaraz, in the rankings and returning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[6359,4718,170905,79,1068,5838,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-543539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-jannik-sinner","10":"tag-paris-masters","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-tennis-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115478503345152129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543539","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=543539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}