Jannik Sinner's season will end at the Davis Cup Finals, where with team Italy he will defend the title won last year, but in the meantime the Italian champion closed his ATP season in the best way, winning the ATP Finals in Turin in front of his crowd.
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At the press conference after beating Taylor Fritz in the final, the Italian touched on many topics, including the Closebol doping-issuethat risks getting him a ban of up to 1-2 years. The journalists presents in the press room asked him if he feels worried about the CAS ruling, after the WADA appeal for the well-known case of positivity found durin at Indian Wellsthat could trigger a disqualification for the Italian tennis player.
Jannik said that the situation does not worry him, as he and his team have come out of this situation in a positive way three times and are very confident that it will be the same next time. he said that he often tries to understand what he did wrong and if there was something he could have done better.
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"There was no other way to do better. My team helped me a lot, as you know, because there were nights when I just didn't sleep. I'm lucky to have Simone Vagnozzi and Darren Cahill: we continued to work every day and we also improved during this period," he explained.
On winning the tournament, Jannik underlined that this was definitely a week of very high quality, starting from the beginning. He said that he tried to play the best tennis possible in every match at every single moment, specifying how the crowd helped him a lot.
"It was definitely one of the most special weeks I've experienced on a tennis court and I'm very happy to have won this trophy," he added.
Asked about his goals for 2025, he said it would be difficult to predict at the moment. Sinner said that this year there was no specific goal of winning a Slam or being No.1 or anything and that next year will be the same. He added that whatever he and his team can win, they will try to win.
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"We have been working to improve my level in specific moments, which I have been doing throughout this year. I am very happy about it and this was the way to close an incredible season," said the Italian.
The ATP No.1 also said how he feels very happy, and finishing the season in Turin like this playing like this has made him excited. He said he arrived early to prepare for the tournament in the best possible way, expressing satisfaction for having finished better than how he started.
The media asked the young Italian to indicate his percentages between talent and work, and Jannik's answer was quite honest: "I'm not very good with percentages but I'm someone who works a lot! I try to analyze mistakes. Only by combining talent and work do you become an important player."
While Sinner preferred not to express himself on Andrea Gaudenzi's idea of bringing the ATP Masters 1000 finals back to the best of five sets, when asked how he will prepare for 2025 when he will have to defend his first career Slam victory in Melbourne in January, the young Italian said he will prepare by being himself as a player, together with his staff. Sinner said that 2025 will be a different year, but that he is not worried.
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When asked if he considers himself the best Italian athlete in history, he said: "I'm 23 years old, we cannot make comparisons with other athletes who have done incredible things. I had an important season, we'll have to see how my whole career goes."
Sinner thus became the first Italian to win the ATP Finals. The Italian tennis player played a great match, performing the clout-moments in the best possible way. Fritz tried, he had excellent averages on serve, but in the end he had to wait for the great returns of Sinner, who chipped away at all his certainties and won again in straight sets.
Jannik, in the on-court interview, had already expressed his feelings about his performance, analyzing: "It's all fantastic, it's been a fantastic week and it's my first title in Italy. I'm very happy about this and it's something really special. I tried to understand what I had to do for each match, I played my best tennis and I'm really happy. Playing great tennis here in front of this incredible crowd, I tried to improve compared to last year, I'm happy with how I managed the match and the tension, things went better compared to last season and that's fine."
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Jannik will leave for Malaga tomorrow and will try to defend - as I said at the beginning of the article - the title he won last year with team Italy at the Davis Cup Finals. Fritz closes the season as ATP No.4 and with two important finals played like the one at the US Open and the one yesterday at the ATP Finals.
