“Carlos held a press conference after winning Sinner in the US Open 2025 final”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
– What was it – to win the US Open? This is your second trophy on the US Open.
– It’s a wonderful feeling. I worked hard to lift this trophy. This is my second title, but it is still a dream. The second title here is especially special.
– You are obviously the champion. You are also the number one again in the world. How nice is it and how inspired you to win this tournament and shift Yannik from the first position after you beat it many times last year, but still stayed behind in the rating?
– Well, as I said, it is great for me – when you reach the goals that you set yourself at the beginning of the year. This is a terrific feeling. From the moment I have the opportunity to return the first position, it became one of my main goals for the season: to return the first place as soon as possible or to end the year with the first number. For me to achieve this again is, as I said, a dream. To do this on the same day I won another Grand Slam tournament is even better. For this, I work and I am very happy to experience such moments.
– Yannnik said that one of his problems today was predictability. He praised you for unpredictability. How important is your success and variability that is in your game? And when did you realize for the first time you can do so many different things to cause the opponent?
– Well, yes, it’s my style. I think every player has their own style. My style is just variability. In the match I feel that I can do everything: cuts, short strokes, flat strokes. I trust my physical shape very much. I feel that I can get any ball that gives me confidence and opportunity to build good draws and play a variety. From my childhood, I had the feeling that I could do everything: go to the net, play from the back line, shortened, cuts. Of course, I had to work so you don’t make too many mistakes in matches. I train all the time to keep this style – variability, but at the same time be reliable from the back line. This allows me to create problems for rivals.
– Juan Carlos was here a little earlier and told us that after Wimbledon you trained together specifically until the next meeting with Jannik. I wonder how quickly after Wimbledon did you understand that you need to change something in your game?
– Immediately after the match, I thought you needed to improve some things if I wanted to beat it after that finals. Of course, immediately after the match I did not train. I took a week of rest, did nothing. But after the match, I thought, “Well, when I start to train, I want to work it out, that’s it, it is.” Sorry, guys, but I immediately thought about the specific aspects that I need to improve if I want to win a Yannik. And here I spent two weeks before Cincinnati, working only on certain elements of my game, which, as I felt, you need to pull up to win it.
– I wonder: when Yannik says he feels predictable, can you anticipate his actions? Do you feel good to read his game? And does it seem to you that it really becomes predictable?
– I would not say that I read his game and that he is predictable, but I know him well. We played a lot of matches against each other. As he said, he looks a lot of my matches to learn my game. I do the same. I watch many of his matches. First, because I like to watch his game. I think what he does is stunning. And secondly, because I like to study it: how he plays, how he feels in tournaments. If I meet him in the same tournament, I already have an idea of his condition. So I would not say that he is predictable, but I know his style, I know his main weapon. I try to focus on that. But even if he considers himself predictable, it is still very difficult to resist his level and withstand long draws against him.
– Carlos, Juan Carlos also said that your game was perfect today. How do you react to it and what do you think?
– It’s great when you make the trainer feel like that. And it’s not easy, because he has a high status. He always requires me to play the maximum. And not so often he says that I played perfectly. So for me it is a great victory. But yes, he is right. I think I played perfectly. To win US Open and defeat Yannik, you need to play perfectly. And I think he was right.
– In the Wimbledon finals, the match was more on its terms – many draws from the rear line. Today you were able to add more sections, rotations and everything. How do you think the difference was and how did you manage to go forward today?
– I studied that match. I analyzed the Wimbledon finals. I talked to the coaches, we looked at the finale and discussed what could be done better if we had to meet again. We noted everything and started working on it. Then I just played as we prepared. In the beginning, we thought: “No matter if you win or lose, the main thing is to do the right things.” If you do everything right but the opponent plays incredibly and wins, that’s normal. But the main thing is to do the right one. It worked today. I did everything I was telling me, and it brought the result.
– Obviously, in your rivalry with Yannik you are both in just one title from a career slam. You will have the first chance to do it in Australia. How important is the goal for you – to reach it in Melbourne?
– I think it will be stunning. Honestly, this is my first goal. When I start pre -season training and I think I want to improve and what to achieve, Australian Open is always in the first place – this is the first or second tournament of the year and the main goal. To complete a career or calendar Grand Slam is the main task. So it will be great if I do it first or second. Honestly, I don’t care. The main thing is to complete. Of course I will try to do it next year. If it does not work, then for two, three or four years. I will try to do it. If he makes it first, it will be a great achievement. But it is only important for me to complete, no matter when.
– Carlos, for the whole tournament you lost only one set. Do you think you went to a new level? Is this the best tournament in your career?
– Yes. I feel so. I think this is the best tournament from the first to the last match, the best tournament in my career. My level was very stable throughout the tournament, and I am very proud of it. Because I worked for a long time on stability. And in this tournament I saw that I could play very stable.
– We are talking about your sixth GS title, the second here, but we are already discussing Australia. Do you have time to enjoy what you have achieved before you prepare for the next?
– There are few bad things in tennis, but one of them is that you win the tournament, and immediately after that you need to focus on the next. Sometimes you have only one day to enjoy the victory, and even none – and you need to go to another tournament, to another place. Sometimes it is very difficult to realize that you won the Rnir, and have fun. This year, I learned to take moments from every tournament, every experience and enjoy them with the team, family, people around. It is important to take time, look at the trophy, realize what you have achieved, and evaluate it. Then move on and rejoice. I think it’s very important. And this is what I study – to do after every tournament, every match or every trophy.
