VIDEO SHOWS: PRESS CONFERENCE COMMENTS FROM JANNIK SINNER AND CARLOS ALCARAZ AFTER THE ATP FINALS SINGLES FINAL SHOWS: TURIN, ITALY (NOVEMBER 16, 2025) (ATP MEDIA/IMG - Editorial use only. No monetisation. No resales.) 1. WORLD NUMBER TWO AND 2025 ATP FINALS CHAMPION, JANNIK SINNER, SITTING DOWN AT PRESS CONFERENCE 2. WHITE FLASH 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WORLD NUMBER TWO AND 2025 ATP FINALS CHAMPION, JANNIK SINNER, SAYING: "Making four Grand Slam finals, coming here, winning here, having this big streak in end of the year, it's amazing. But mostly I feel to be a better player than last year, I think this is the most important. It's all part of the process. I always say and believe that if you keep working and trying to be a better player, the results, they're going to come. This year it was like this." 4. WHITE FLASH 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WORLD NUMBER TWO AND 2025 ATP FINALS CHAMPION, JANNIK SINNER, SAYING: "We both started off missing because we know each other, what we have to do. When you play a final against a very, very tough opponent, you tend to miss a bit more. It's normal. But we both had our tactics clear in our mind, I felt like. The second set maybe the level was a bit higher because of a bit more of rallies, a bit more difficult to get through Carlos. But the key moments, they're always there, you know? 30-All at times, if you don't serve well... Other moments are also 2-1 in the first set. If he breaks there, the match could lead very fast in the other way. It's also a part of perspective how you see the match. Yeah, I felt like small, small details made the difference. I was lucky when I broke him back with the shanked return. I also have to say that. No, at the end of the set I felt like we both were playing great tennis from the back of the court. The small margins are very, very small." 6. WHITE FLASH 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WORLD NUMBER ONE AND 2025 ATP FINALS RUNNER-UP, CARLOS ALCARAZ, SAYING: "Obviously I felt the improvements of Jannik. I said many times, I think a player like him, he always comes back stronger from the losses. He always learns from the losses. Once again, he has shown everybody that he did it. Especially in the serves, putting so much pressure on you. It's really difficult to playing against him obviously." 8. WHITE FLASH 9. *PROFANITY* (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) WORLD NUMBER ONE AND 2025 ATP FINALS RUNNER-UP, CARLOS ALCARAZ, SAYING: "Honestly, I'm not hurt or pissed off. You just have to appreciate reaching the final of the ATP Finals. And to lose the way I did against someone who hasn't lost an indoors match for two years, you have to put that into perspective." STORY: Italy's Jannik Sinner retained his ATP Finals title on Sunday (November 16), sending the Turin crowd wild as he battled past Spanish world number one and rival Carlos Alcaraz 7-6(4) 7-5 in the decider to the season-ending championships. Sinner, backed by a raucous Italian crowd, fell to the floor after breaking his rival's serve in the final game before racing to celebrate with his team as chants of 'Ole, Ole, Ole, Sinner, Sinner' rang around the Inalpi Arena. In a season defined and dominated by the rivalry between the two players, it seemed inevitable that they would meet in the title clash and both obliged by easing through the tournament unbeaten to set up one last dance in Turin. Alcaraz forced the only break point in the first set but Sinner held firm and brought the crowd to its feet with a tiebreak win, and sealed the match when the Spaniard was unable to hold while serving to stay in the contest. Sinner missed out on ending the year as world number one to Alcaraz after the Spaniard won his three round-robin matches this week but the Italian won the last act of 2025 to crown the best season of his career. The 24-year-old reached the final of all four Grand Slams, winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon, while Alcaraz has also had a stellar year, winning Roland Garros and the U.S. Open, beating Sinner in both finals. Alcaraz put Sinner to the test in Turin but despite not being at his best and struggling with his service game, which had powered him past opponents all week, the Italian held his nerve. Sinner won his opening service game to love with Alcaraz responding in kind, and at 2-2 the Spaniard forced deuce before a medical emergency in the stands led to a 10-minute break, the duo chatting over the net, belying the tension in the arena and on court. When play resumed, Sinner advanced to the net to slam down a winning volley and fired an ace to hold. Alcaraz required a medical time-out during the break at 5-4 up before forcing the first break point of the match at 6-5. Sinner survived and after letting slip a mini-break in the tiebreak, the champion brought the crowd to its feet smashing down a lob after Alcaraz had chased back to return a drop shot and then catching out the Spaniard with a lob of his own to take the first set. The Spaniard had chances to take the final the distance, breaking the Italian in the opening game of the second set where Sinner hit two double faults. Yet Sinner came back to level the set at 3-3 and came through when it counted. Sinner arrived in the final on a remarkable indoor hardcourt winning run of 30 matches since losing to Novak Djokovic in the 2023 decider in Turin, also the last time the Italian dropped a set in the competition. Appearing in his third successive final in the season-ender, Sinner had lost four of his previous five meetings with Alcaraz this year, which all came in finals, but he was not to be denied in Turin, where his win earned him a record $5.07 million in prize money. (Production: Conal Quinn) (The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)
