Jannik Sinner is yet to return to the practice court following his retirement from the Cincinnati Open final, but his coach Darren Cahill has offered a positive update ahead of his US Open title defence.<\/p>\n
Playing in the first tournament since winning the Wimbledon trophy in July, Sinner<\/a> won five consecutive matches in straight sets to secure a final showdown with Carlos Alcaraz at the ATP Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n Many were hoping for another epic encounter between the pair following their high-quality clashes in the French Open and Wimbledon finals, but the match never got going as the Italian struggled as soon as the match got underway.<\/p>\n The world No 1 was broken to love in the first game and that was the theme for the remainder of the shorter match as he retired after 23 minutes while he was trailing 0-5<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sinner issues a statement after the match stating: \u201cDidn\u2019t feel great from yesterday. Also during the night, I thought I would recover a bit better, but it was not the case. And I just tried to go out for the fans, trying to give a match.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the reason why I went on the court, but it was not meant to be for me today. So, you know, it happens. And, but another way, I don\u2019t want to take anything away from Carlos. He had a great week, great, great tournament again. And now the main focus, obviously, is for the US Open. And yeah, now recovery is the most important. And then we see.\u201d<\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam winner was due to take part in the revamped US Open mixed doubles event alongside Katerina Siniakova, but he withdrew from the event, raising concerns over his participating in the singles event.<\/p>\n Former world No 1 warns Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will never match Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Martina Navratilova and co give US Open predictions as Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic snubbed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n With the Cincinnati final taking place on Monday and the US Open main draw getting underway on Sunday, the preparation time for the season-ending Grand Slam is limited.<\/p>\n Cahill has confirmed that the 24-year-old was struck down by a virus, but believes he will \u201cbe fine\u201d for the New York major.<\/p>\n \u201cJannik suffered from a virus that forced him to retire against Alcaraz on Monday,\u201d the Australian said during an ESPN broadcast.<\/p>\n \u201cI spoke with him briefly last night. He\u2019s feeling a bit better now, he will rest today [Wednesday], that is the plan and hopefully Thursday he can get out on the court and start hitting some balls. We are confident he\u2019s going to be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n It is not the first time that Sinner has struggled physically, as he also became wary during the latter stages of his five-set marathon against Alcaraz in the Roland Garros final, raising questions over his fitness.<\/p>\n Italian tennis commentator Guido Monaco<\/a> commented about his fitness after the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n \u201cEven in Miami against [Daniil] Medvedev, he [Sinner] arrived with a fever, playing an anonymous match. Even at Wimbledon last year, even if there was something else involved, the physical sensation was the same, obviously for different reasons. I have a common thread. The show was what it was,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cSinner might be more fragile than others and suffer more in certain conditions. I\u2019m fine with that, it makes him more human.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Jannik Sinner\u2019s coach gives health update ahead of sickly world No 1\u2019s US Open campaign<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jannik Sinner is yet to return to the practice court following his retirement from the Cincinnati Open final, but his coach Darren Cahill has offered a positive update ahead of his US Open title defence. Playing in the first tournament since winning the Wimbledon trophy in July, Sinner won five consecutive matches in straight sets […]<\/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-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Jannik Sinner News<\/h2>\n