{"id":308101,"date":"2025-10-16T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308101\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:07:11","slug":"tennis-live-six-kings-slam-updates-as-jannik-sinner-in-action-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308101\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis LIVE: Six Kings Slam updates as Jannik Sinner in action | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/carlos-alcaraz\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> has argued that players are misunderstood when it comes to criticism over exhibition tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>He told the PA news agency: \u201cI think it\u2019s a discussion that a lot of players and a lot of people are talking about with the calendar, how tight it is with a lot of tournaments and the tournaments of two weeks, and then making some, I\u2019m going to say, excuses with exhibitions, how players are complaining about the calendar and then playing some exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I can say is it\u2019s a really different format, different situation playing exhibitions than the official tournaments, having 15, 16 days in row, having such a high focus and demanding physically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why, because we\u2019re just having fun for one or two days and playing some tennis, and I think that\u2019s great, and I think that\u2019s why we choose sometimes the exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously I understand (the criticism), but sometimes the people don\u2019t understand us, our opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see a lot of people complaining about how we are defending the exhibitions, I don\u2019t understand them because, as I said, it\u2019s not really demanding mentally (compared to) when we\u2019re having such long events like two weeks or two-and-a-half weeks. It\u2019s really tough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has argued that players are misunderstood when it comes to criticism over exhibition tournaments. He told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":308102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1466,1824,9125,126906,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-308101","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-novak-djokovic","11":"tag-six-kings-slam","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115384001893919624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308101","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=308101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}