{"id":251474,"date":"2025-09-24T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251474\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:24:11","slug":"jannik-sinner-says-hes-been-given-a-huge-privilege-after-adding-a-new-member-of-staff-to-his-coaching-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251474\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner says he’s been given a ‘huge privilege’ after adding a new member of staff to his coaching team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jannik Sinner returns to the ATP Tour this week at the China Open, marking his first appearance since the US Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sinner lost the US Open final to Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> earlier this month, falling short of a fifth career Grand Slam title in New York.<\/p>\n

He also lost his ATP<\/a> number one ranking to the Spaniard, who continues his season at this week\u2019s Japan Open in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz is the top seed at the ATP 500 tournament, with Sinner<\/a> occupying the same status at the China Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Italian meets Marin Cilic in his first match in Beijing, where he lost the 2024 final to his closest rival Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Tian Yuhao\/China News Service\/VCG via Getty ImagesJannik Sinner honored after adding new member of staff to his coaching team<\/p>\n

And Sinner has a new team member by his side for this year\u2019s tournament, having hired Alejandro Resnicoff as his permanent physio.<\/p>\n

Speaking of his preparation for Beijing amid the hire, Sinner said: \u201cLook, no specific changes. I mean, on the court we are changing a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cOff the court is more or less the same. He\u2019s a very experienced physio, obviously being on the ATP Tour for 15 years, more or less.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlso before he had other tennis players, so\u2026 he has a lot of experience. He also respects how we are as a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that he comes in and he\u2019s changing everything. If he sees that we have or could potentially improve something for my body, he\u2019s here to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how it works. But it also takes time. I\u2019ve worked with him a little bit in the years when I didn\u2019t have my physio. Not as much.<\/p>\n

\"2024Photo by Fred Lee\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously now having him for me, it\u2019s a huge privilege. He\u2019s super, super experienced. A very honest person, nice and kind person.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe also has a family at home. He has a nice situation also off work. Yeah, it\u2019s everything going in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is Jannik Sinner\u2019s potential path to the China Open title?<\/p>\n

Sinner is seemingly as calm and composed as ever heading into another tournament, although he will have revenge on his mind.<\/p>\n

He fell 6-7(6), 6-4, 7-6(3) to Alcaraz last time out, and now has a fantastic opportunity to put that right, particularly with the Spaniard in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

But he faces a very tricky challenge first up in his bid for 500 ranking points and of course further silverware.<\/p>\n

Cilic may not be at his best at this stage of his career, but he is a former Grand Slam champion, having won the 2014 US Open.<\/p>\n

If the Italian manages to get past the Croatian, he\u2019ll take on either Terence Atmane or home favourite Zhang Zhizhen.<\/p>\n

Karen Khachanov could then await the former world number one, followed by a potential match against Alex de Minaur or Jakub Mensik.<\/p>\n

A final meeting with any of Alexander Zverev, Lorenzo Musetti, Andrey Rublev or Daniil Medvedev is then possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner returns to the ATP Tour this week at the China Open, marking his first appearance since…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,133156,1824,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-251474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-china-open","10":"tag-jannik-sinner","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115260205945954255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251474","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=251474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}