{"id":154744,"date":"2025-08-18T03:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154744\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T03:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:44:07","slug":"cincinnati-open-volunteer-adopts-puppy-meets-jannik-sinner-at-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154744\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open volunteer adopts puppy, meets Jannik Sinner at event"},"content":{"rendered":"

MASON, OH \u2212 Phil Carver said he returned for his ninth year as a Cincinnati Open <\/a>volunteer because of the family atmosphere.<\/p>\n

“It’s a sense of giving back to the community and helping out,” said Carver, who lives in Sharonville.<\/p>\n

Carver would’ve never imagined he’d add to his family through the Cincinnati Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More: <\/strong>Iga Swiatek advances to Cincinnati Open women’s final<\/a><\/p>\n

More: <\/strong>It will be No. 1 Jannik Sinner vs. No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz in Cincinnati Open men’s final<\/a><\/p>\n

Carver, a well-traveled veteran volunteer of Super Bowls, World Series and Final Fours, was working as the Cincinnati Open’s “Gauntlet Coordinator” Aug. 14. Carver’s main duty was to clear a formidable path for tennis stars to go from the locker room to the venue’s new two-story players’ lounge.<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead of screaming, autograph-seeking fans, though, Carver spotted some four-legged companions going into the players’ lounge.<\/p>\n

“Apparently, Fifth Third Bank sponsored the SPCA<\/a>, and they brought dogs in,” Carver said. “I saw these dogs and was playing with one of them. I let them go into the players’ lounge.”<\/p>\n

The dog Carver was playing with left an impact. He was going to be late to the tournament the next day.<\/p>\n

“I went to the SPCA in Sharonville and adopted this little puppy,” Carver. “I took him back home and gave him to the family.”<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to Carver, the mut he had just adopted was already famous. The puppy, who was named Arden, was held by World No. 1 Jannik Sinner the day before in a video posted on social media by the Cincinnati Open.<\/a><\/p>\n

Typically, volunteers are not allowed to mingle with players.<\/p>\n

However, when Sinner learned that Arden had been adopted by a volunteer, he invited Carver to his birthday celebration after beating Terence Atmane in the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Open Aug. 16.<\/p>\n

“They got me to go in and he (Sinner) gave me three big hugs saying, ‘you’re a good guy!’ I told him, ‘No, you’re a good guy because you’re a dog lover!'” Carver said. “It was pretty cool.”<\/p>\n

Carver had an easy choice for his dog’s new name.<\/p>\n

“We named him Jannik. He’s little Janny.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MASON, OH \u2212 Phil Carver said he returned for his ninth year as a Cincinnati Open volunteer because…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[691,4749,17969,1479,76132,4654,2488,337,2487,90323,1824,50,642,1440,450,1457,1451,52627,52628,90324,2541,62,1458,645,2490,1464,1446,639,662,646,67,132,68,643,4748,45747,76131,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-154744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-animal","10":"tag-animal-welfare","11":"tag-atp","12":"tag-atp-world-tour","13":"tag-dogs","14":"tag-enabled","15":"tag-explainer","16":"tag-highlights","17":"tag-jannik","18":"tag-jannik-sinner","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-not","21":"tag-open","22":"tag-overall","23":"tag-overall-positive","24":"tag-positive","25":"tag-racquet","26":"tag-racquet-sports","27":"tag-sinner","28":"tag-southern","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-news","31":"tag-story","32":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","33":"tag-tennis","34":"tag-tour","35":"tag-ttp","36":"tag-ttp-explainer-not-visual","37":"tag-u0026","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-unitedstates","40":"tag-us","41":"tag-visual","42":"tag-welfare","43":"tag-western","44":"tag-western-u0026-southern-open","45":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115047711970196477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}