By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday October 4, 2024
Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz simply performed probably the greatest matches of 2024 within the Beijing closing, and the pair of rivals might meet once more in Shanghai, the place they’re slated to satisfy within the semifinals if the seeds maintain.
Sinner says that’s simply advantageous with him, and admits that he’s at all times fascinated about what he can do higher to defeat his rival, the person who has toppled him in every of the 3 times they’ve met in 2024.
“It’s good that we’re rivals on the courtroom after which mates off the courtroom,” Sinner informed ATP Media. “I really feel like — a minimum of speaking from my aspect — he pushes me to do higher. I get up within the morning making an attempt to know what I can do higher, making an attempt to beat him subsequent time, which is one thing good for me as a participant.”
“I really feel like off the courtroom we’re fairly related as a result of we’re encompass ourself with our shut ones, we like to stick with the staff. There are lots of related issues.”
Sinner will face Taro Daniel in his first match at Shanghai on Saturday. Alcaraz will face rising Chinese language Shang Juncheng within the eighth Masters 1000 occasion of 2024.
On the courtroom Sinner acknowledges the distinction between the 2 stars, and provides that he can be taught from watching the best way that Alcaraz goes about his enterprise.
“On the courtroom, we’re completely different,” Sinner stated. “He’s the one who brings the firepower, the new photographs, he includes the gang. He’s a bit completely different. I’m extra just like the stable participant, fairly calm, so it’s like hearth and ice a bit, nevertheless it’s a pleasant mixture.
“It additionally reveals that everybody is completely different. I imagine that I’ve to take one thing from him as a participant, making an attempt some completely different photographs typically, which I really feel like makes me develop as a participant, however this takes time – we’re simply making an attempt to do ourselves, to be ourselves on the courtroom.”