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Sinner told the crowd: “I’m super sorry to disappoint you. From yesterday I didn’t feel great, I thought I would improve but it came up worse.<\/p>\n
“I tried to come out, to make it at least a small match, but I couldn’t handle more.<\/p>\n
“I am very sorry for all of you. I know that maybe some of you, on a Monday, you had to work, had to do something else, so I’m really sorry.”<\/p>\n
It is a first Cincinnati title for Alcaraz and a seventh triumph of the season overall – but as he said afterwards, this is not the way he would have wanted to win.<\/p>\n
“I can’t say anything you don’t know already. You will come back even stronger like you always do,” Alcaraz said to Sinner.<\/p>\n
“That’s what true champions do and you are one.”<\/p>\n
Sinner, Alcaraz and women’s finalist Iga Swiatek are all due to play in the US Open mixed doubles on Tuesday in New York – but it seems unlikely Sinner will now pair up with Katerina Siniakova as planned.<\/p>\n
The singles main draw at Flushing Meadows begins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n