{"id":1119,"date":"2025-10-03T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:00:36","slug":"jannik-sinners-own-coach-says-us-open-final-defeat-was-unsurprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner\u2019s own coach says US Open final defeat was \u2018unsurprising\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner\u2019s own coach has said it \u201cisn\u2019t that surprising\u201d that the Italian lost to Carlos Alcaraz in the US Open final and said the Spaniard was \u201cbetter\u201d in every department.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two rivals faced off in their third Grand Slam final of the year last month but unusually, the match was rather one-sided with Alcaraz winning via a 3-1 set advantage.<\/p>\n

Jannik Sinner coach reveals thoughts on US Open final<\/h2>\n

The meeting at Flushing Meadows was the third time in a row that a men\u2019s Grand Slam final had been contested by Sinner and Alcaraz but it was the most one-sided of the year with the latter winning 21 of the 34 games played.<\/p>\n

To see Sinner, who was world No.1 at the time, steamrolled in such dramatic fashion was surprising for many onlookers but not it would seem for his coaching staff.<\/p>\n

Simone Vagnozzi, Sinner\u2019s coach, said it came as no great shock, and suggested Alcaraz was better in every department.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe loss in New York, in my opinion, isn\u2019t that surprising,\u201d he told Corriere dello Sport<\/a>. \u201cAt that point, Carlos was better than Jannik psychologically, physically, and tennis-wise.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we mustn\u2019t forget that he too had five difficult months, and today they\u2019re trying to make Jannik look like a player in crisis, in a year in which he won two Grand Slams and reached finals every week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s doing extraordinary things. Plus, like everyone else, we always want to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vagnozzi, who himself was a player from 1999 to 2015, said he was though surprised by the reaction to the defeat, suggesting matches can sometimes be decided by small margins.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, sometimes I\u2019m surprised by how much people talk about certain things,\u201d the 42-year-old Italian said. \u201cSometimes things work, sometimes less so.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the United States, Jannik didn\u2019t serve very well, and we made some adjustments: his movement changed the day before arriving in China.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cDuring the first few days in Beijing, he adapted and then served very well. Then, it\u2019s clear that something new always needs to be added to the game, otherwise we become predictable. This doesn\u2019t mean Sinner has to become a serve-and-volley player.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are drop shots and slices, but also other variations, whether it\u2019s taking a down-the-line first, returning more aggressively, playing a kick, or going to the body. It\u2019s simply about improving; I don\u2019t find anything surprising about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re trying to become number one, it\u2019s different than when you\u2019re already there and have to do something to stay there. Some changes can seem riskier because you think you might lose something. Jannik is smart enough to understand whether our proposals are right or wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, we have to work on ideas he believes in, otherwise it won\u2019t work. And sometimes even losing a match helps a player understand that it might be time to make some changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next: Coco Gauff leaves former world No 3 \u2018surprised\u2019 with coaching choice as service struggles addressed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jannik Sinner\u2019s own coach has said it \u201cisn\u2019t that surprising\u201d that the Italian lost to Carlos Alcaraz in the US Open final and said the Spaniard was \u201cbetter\u201d in every department. The two rivals faced off in their third Grand Slam final of the year last month but unusually, the match was rather one-sided with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}