{"id":1170,"date":"2025-11-15T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2025-11-15T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:30:39","slug":"atp-finals-jannik-sinner-beats-alex-de-minaur-to-reach-turin-final-as-carlos-alcaraz-looks-to-join-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"ATP Finals: Jannik Sinner beats Alex de Minaur to reach Turin final as Carlos Alcaraz looks to join him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Defending champion Jannik Sinner says he will try to enjoy himself in his last outing of the season after overcoming Alex de Minaur to reach the ATP Finals title match, where he could face Carlos Alcaraz.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a match of contrasting sets, the Italian world number two was frustrated by a battling performance from De Minaur during a 66-minute opener but blew away the Australian in the second to win 7-5 6-2 and reach his third consecutive final in Turin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner, who extended his unbeaten run on indoor hard courts to 30 matches, has not dropped a set at the end-of-season showpiece since losing to Novak Djokovic in the 2023 final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Such has been his form, he has yet to drop a service game at this year&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will face either year-end number one Alcaraz or Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime in Sunday&#8217;s final as he bids to become only the fourth player to defend the men&#8217;s singles title this century, after Lleyton Hewitt, Roger Federer and Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy. This is the last event of the year, so it&#8217;s great to finish this way,&#8221; Sinner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a very tough match, especially the beginning of the first set. He was serving great. In the second, I tried to be aggressive which worked well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tomorrow, I will enjoy [it] and try my best. It&#8217;s been an amazing week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Jannik Sinner says he will try to enjoy himself in his last outing of the season after overcoming Alex de Minaur to reach the ATP Finals title match, where he could face Carlos Alcaraz. In a match of contrasting sets, the Italian world number two was frustrated by a battling performance from De<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}