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In the past, Sinner himself has spoken about some of the tough losses he has had. (AP Photo)
Something interesting happened in the fifth and deciding set in the epic 2025 French Open men’s singles final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. Sinner was trailing 1-3 and had crawled back to 30-30 after losing the first two points on Alcaraz’s serve.
The Italian crunched a deep return, almost at the foot of Carlos, and followed it up with a fine backhand down the line and seemed to be in control of that point soon with a couple of backhands. However, Carlos not only got on top of a kicking ball but slammed a deep feisty forehand that Sinner put out.
This is when Sinner turned and shouted to his box. The commentator too cottoned on to the moment, saying, “this is the first time I have seen that (reacting to his team) from him. Unflappable for 4-and-half hours …”
The 101-year old Italian sports newspaper Corriere dello Sport caught what Sinner told his box where his coach Simone Vagnozzi and super coach Darren Cahill were sitting. “I hit hard but he returns hard, damn it,” was what he shouted, the newspaper reported.
In 2022, he had taken his countryman Simone Vagnozzi as his coach and later added Cahill, the former coach of Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt. Last year VAgnozzi had spoken to ATP Tour website about him.
“Jannik wants to win everything,” Vagnozzi said. “Just yesterday we lost 20 bucks each, Darren and I, because he hit the ball can with his serve on the first try. If we say to him, ‘You get 20 Euros if you do it the first time and 15 Euros if you do it on the second’, [he always] does it on the first!”
In the past, Sinner himself has spoken about some of the tough losses he has had. ”I think I’ve learned a lot from the losses I had, especially one year ago here,” Sinner said. “I learned, and I had to accept to learn from myself, [from] my body language. I worked a lot on that.”
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