Jannik Sinner\u2019s coach Darren Cahill believes the Italian\u2019s victory over Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final was a match he simply had to win.<\/p>\n
A little over a month after their epic French Open final, when Alcaraz saved three match points and beat Sinner in a decisive tie-break, Sinner got swift revenge against his friend and rival with a convincing win at Wimbledon<\/p>\n
His first title on the grass was a significant moment in Sinner\u2019s career, as he became the first Italian to win the title at the All England Club.<\/p>\n
Yet Cahill believes the victory mattered more as it broke a losing run against Alcaraz in major matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday was important for many, many reasons,\u201d said Cahill.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz makes brutally honest confession as he faces the media after Wimbledon final defeat<\/a><\/p>\n Jannik Sinner in dreamland as he ends multiple Carlos Alcaraz streaks to end Italy\u2019s wait for Wimbledon crown<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cCarlos has had the wood over him for the last five matches. They\u2019ve played amazing matches, and Jannik has had chances in maybe four of the five matches they\u2019ve played to beat him.<\/p>\n \u201cHasn\u2019t been able to get the victory. So today was important not just because it was a Grand Slam final, not just because it was Wimbledon, and not just because Carlos had won the last five matches against him. He needed that win today. So he knew the importance of closing this one out when he had the opportunity.<\/p>\n \u201cWith that, I think you saw a bit more energy from him in the big moments and a bit more focus to knuckle down and make sure that when he had his nose in front, he kept on closing the door against Carlos. He did an amazing job with that today.\u201d<\/p>\n Cahill also reflected on the friendly rivalry between Sinner and Alcaraz and while their Wimbledon final did not reach the heights of their French Open epic last month, he believes the duo will be great for tennis over the next decade.<\/p>\n \u201cThe quality of Roland Garros was one of the best matches I\u2019ve ever seen in the 25 years I\u2019ve been a coach and a player,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s been some great matches, of course, but that one was special. The first game took, what, 12 minutes at Roland Garros. So we had five sets of that drama. It was one of the all-time great matches.<\/p>\n \u201cThe rivalry is amazing already, and I think it can get better with both these players pushing each other. I do think there\u2019s some other younger players coming through that will punch their way through the door, so it won\u2019t just be a two-man show.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be other players, which we look forward to as well and are excited about, but it\u2019s difficult to compare this rivalry to what we\u2019ve just had.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a golden age in tennis with Novak and Roger and Rafa and Andy. They dominated for 20 years. Incredibly selfish, they won all those Grand Slams.<\/p>\n \u201cTo win a Grand Slam back in those days, you had to beat one of them in the quarters, the other one in the semis, and another one in the final.<\/p>\n \u201cThese guys still have a ways to go, but they\u2019ve started incredibly well.<\/p>\n \u201cI have fingers crossed that they\u2019re going to have a great 10 or 15 years to go, and they\u2019ll have some more amazing matches. But I\u2019m not going to compare them just yet to what we\u2019ve just seen.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Big reason why Carlos Alcaraz lost his Wimbledon crown to Jannik Sinner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Jannik Sinner\u2019s coach makes telling Carlos Alcaraz confession after Wimbledon win<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jannik Sinner\u2019s coach Darren Cahill believes the Italian\u2019s victory over Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final was a match he simply had to win. A little over a month after their epic French Open final, when Alcaraz saved three match points and beat Sinner in a decisive tie-break, Sinner got swift revenge against his friend […]<\/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-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}