US Open champion staggered by Carlos Alcaraz’s – Sports News
Jessica Pegula and Jennifer Brady, two of America’s high tennis stars, have shared their ideas on the Six Kings Slam. The pair watched as Jannik Sinner triumphed over Carlos Alcaraz within the high-stakes exhibition occasion held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia earlier this month.
Sinner, who took over as world primary after the US Open in September, avenged his New York last loss with a easy 6-2 6-4 victory over Alcaraz. The win reportedly netted him a cool $6m (£4.5m), with $4.5m (£3.4m) in prize money and an further $1.5m (£1.1m) participation price. Alcaraz additionally pocketed his participation price with out breaking a sweat, due to a first-round bye.
Novak Djokovic, regardless of retiring from the third-place match in opposition to Taylor Fritz, walked away with the identical quantity. Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas additionally cashed of their seven-figure checks, regardless that they solely performed one match every.
In complete, Sinner’s winnings from the Six Kings Slam surpassed what he would’ve earned had he received this 12 months’s US Open ($5m/£3.74m), Wimbledon ($4m/£3m), French Open ($2.9m/£2.2m) or Australian Open ($2.3m/£1.75m).
On The Players Box podcast, Pegula and Brady mentioned the staggering prize money on the Middle East exhibition occasion. As reported by Tennis Up To Date, Pegula, whose household is estimated to be value round $7bn (£5.2bn), remarked: “The prize money is insane… 1.5million for showing up.”
Before breaking into laughter, the latter quipped: “Winner gets 6 million, 1.5 million to just show up, I don’t think I’d say no!”.
Sinner has now clinched the Six Kings Slam two years in succession. In his on-court interview, the 24 12 months outdated mirrored on his stellar performances in Saudi Arabia.
“I wish I could play like this everywhere,” Sinner admitted. “This season we played many, many times, and I also lost many times to Carlos. It is a huge pleasure and honour to share the court with him. At the same time, you want to get better as a player, and you need rivalries in the sport.
“So it is good to have a great rivalry and more importantly, a great friendship off the court docket. We have a very particular friendship, and it’s extremely good.”
Alcaraz was equally complimentary of his opponent. He said: “When Jannik is taking part in at this stage it’s all the time troublesome, at this time he was simply too good.
“I always say when he plays such great tennis it gives me motivation to go to the practice court, give 100 per cent and try to be better. Sometimes he is annoying, but he gives me extra motivation.”
On their relationship away from the court docket, Alcaraz added: “A few times I wrote to him just to see how he’s going or to congratulate him. We have a special relationship off the court, which is great.
“People suppose when two tennis gamers are competing for great issues, giving their best on the court docket, they can not have a great friendship off the court docket and I believe we [have seen] it is potential.”
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