THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

July 13, 2025

Jannik Sinner

Press Conference

J. SINNER/C. Alcaraz

4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4

THE MODERATOR: Welcome to the press conference for Wimbledon men's singles champion, Jannik Sinner.

Jannik, Wimbledon champion, how does that feel?

JANNIK SINNER: Yeah, feels amazing. The tournament I always dreamed of just playing and to be part of. And now sitting here with the trophy, even if it's not here, it's amazing (smiling).

So, yeah, amazing feeling.

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. I can remember your first match at Roehampton you played here years ago against Alex Bolt. It was this crazy match, and you looked okay on the grass already. Did you think that this surface would be doable for you from when you first experienced it and learning about the grass?

JANNIK SINNER: I think finished 10-8 or something like this. 12-10.

No, this is a question I really don't know. I think when I was younger, you try to get as many matches as possible, trying to understand how it play on this court.

Back then if you would have asked me, I would say, No chance. But I always felt better and better every year I played here. This year was much different than last year because I arrived here with -- last year I won Halle and then coming here feeling great, playing still good tennis, but lost in quarters.

This year for sure I felt great on court. I think we saw this also today how I started to move better every match I played. So yeah, I'm very, very happy.

Q. Your emotional reaction at the end, can you tell us how you felt after all you've been through on and off the court this year, how it felt out there and how important it was to have your parents there with you.

JANNIK SINNER: Yeah, very emotional, no, even if I don't cry. It feels emotional because only me and the people who are close to me know exactly what we have been through on and off the court, and it has been everything except easy.

We've tried to push, you know, every practice session, even I was struggling at times mentally. Maybe even more in practice sessions because I feel like when I play the match, I can switch off and just play. I believe that this helped me a lot.

Yeah, but you know, to share this moment with my family here, my whole family here, it's the most amazing thing that could have happened to me, no?

In Paris it was only my mom, and it was still an amazing feeling. Here my dad and my brother and my mom too and the whole team, not only from my coaches' perspective, but everyone who works for me has been here.

It has been, yeah, an amazing feeling.

Q. I would imagine the most important takeaway for you today is having the Wimbledon trophy, but how important was it for you in your rivalry with Carlos to win, to beat him?

JANNIK SINNER: It is important, for sure, because you know, when you lose several times against someone, it's not easy.

But in the same time in the past I felt that I was very close. If you watch all matchups, you know, I'm starting Beijing, 7-6 in the third. Then Rome was I had set point in the first set, I couldn't use it. Then, you know, in Paris happened what happened.

But I felt close. I never pushed myself down. I always, and I keep looking up to Carlos because even today I felt like he was doing couple of things better than I did. So that's something where we will work on and prepare ourselves because he's going to come for us again. There is not only Carlos, but everyone.

We have a big target on us, so we have to be prepared. Then we see what's happening in the future.

Q. Are you surprised by the level that you've been able to reach since you returned from your three-month ban? If someone had said to you if in February or March it's the French Open final and you will win Wimbledon, what would you have said to that person?

JANNIK SINNER: I would have not believed, no, because it's so difficult already to arrive to the later stages of Grand Slams. Even if you're in great shape and you have the best preparation ever, it's so difficult.

Standing here as a finalist in Roland Garros, and when that moment was over, I felt like I did something great because it has been not easy. Coming here and winning Wimbledon, it has been amazing, no?

Yeah, but in the same time I tried to believe in myself and to accept whatever happens. There is only one way, no, to get better as a player. This hopefully, if you do that, the chances that you win matches, it's higher because you put your effort in, daily effort. This is exactly what we did.

From now on we're going to do it even more because there are players who are going to come. You have to be prepared.

Q. Carlos was in here earlier and said the biggest difference in the match today was how you both performed on second serve points. I just wanted to ask, what do you think the keys were to the match?

JANNIK SINNER: Well, you know, the differences are very small and the margins are very tiny. Today I felt like that I got lucky couple of times. I know hitting some lines. The things what went his way in Paris went my way this time.

The margins are so small. It felt like in the beginning we both were not serving well, but we struggled to return the second serve.

Then after I found a good rhythm on the first serve, especially in the second and third set. In fourth set I had some moments where I served very well and then again struggled. But this is normal because if you play two, three, four hours, you cannot play always in the same way.

So if you ask me, the difference, very, very small. Today just went my way.

Q. How proud are you of the way that you've bounced back from the French Open? Darren was in here a few minutes ago, and he said that he couldn't have done what you've done in terms of putting it behind you.

JANNIK SINNER: No, this I think is the part where I'm the proudest of because it really has not been easy. I always tried to be honest with me and had the self-talk too, you know, what if, what if? I always tried to accept it, in a way.

Things can happen. I believe if you lose a Grand Slam final that way, it's much better like this than someone kills you, you know, that you make two games. Then after you keep going, keep pushing.

I did a lot of intensity in every practice because I felt like that I could play very good. That's why I also said after Roland Garros that it's not the time to put me down, no, because another Grand Slam is coming up, and I did great here.

Q. The rivalry with Carlos, it's obvious you want to win every time. Is there a part of you that's happy to have this contemporary to sort of go on this ride with you, somebody you can go back and forth with and measure yourself against? Related to that, do you feel he's already made you a better player?

JANNIK SINNER: Yeah, of course. It's more the emotional or the motivational part that you have someone who is young, who wins basically everything. You have to be ready, no, if you want to keep up.

I'm happy that we keep showing that, that the work we are doing it's good and it's right work ethic. At the end of the day that's the most important, to get the best version of myself out.

I don't think I'm at my best of the best because with 23 I don't think you can be in your best shape ever. So hopefully I can keep improving. But it's important to have these kind of players because you have to always think and have the strength to go on practice courts and keep going.

Q. Does it make it even more special that you have come here and you've finally beaten Carlos and also done it on one of his supposedly preferred surfaces?

JANNIK SINNER: You know, it's not that I don't care, but I think, of course, my favorite surface is hard court. I won most of the titles there. But in my mind I also know that I can play well on other surfaces.

The beginning of my career I knew that I could potentially play well here because of my groundstrokes. They're quite flat, and the ball goes through.

Clay is different because on clay I felt like the physical shape was not there, but now this year it was great. I played five and a half hours against Carlos. It was super physical. It was different, but it was a good move forward.

You know, winning Wimbledon here is the most special thing you can have. I don't compare it with the surface or not. Wimbledon, it's different.

Q. You obviously talk about how special Wimbledon is to you. What was it like to meet the Princess of Wales today? I'm curious what you said to her and her children as well, because you looked like you were having a really lovely conversation and signing balls for the kids and everything.

JANNIK SINNER: Yeah, in the beginning I didn't know what to say. No, in these moments you don't want to... It's difficult to understand, you know, how you can talk. I always try to talk very natural.

You know, I asked the kids if they play tennis and asked them what kind of records they play, these kind of things.

It was amazing. I think and I believe for us tennis players, it's so nice to have them watching us because it makes it even more special. You see how much they care about tennis and the sport itself. It's, yeah, very, very prestigious.

I've been lucky to meet her and the whole family, and it was a very nice moment.