ATP Finals - Sinner takes it all

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

After the final match of the ATP Tour season, Catherine David & Matt are joined by Charlie Eccleshare in Turin to discuss the latest edition of the Sinneraz rivalry, and another astonishing ATP Finals title for Jannik Sinner, who is now undefeated on indoor hard courts for two full seasons.

Part One 00:00 - In depth analysis of Sinner's straight sets win over Alcaraz in front of a giddy Italian crowd. What makes Sinner so good on an indoor court, how big an impact has his new-found variety had on his match up with Alcaraz? And how worried should we be about Alcaraz's hamstring injury that seemed to plague him in the second half of the match?

There's also discussion of the rivalry in general, where it goes from here and whether men's tennis is precariously reliant on its two biggest superstars.

Part Two 54:33 - The team discuss a doubles title for Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten, beating Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury in the final, as well as a dominant showing generally for British doubles players at the year-end finals.

There's also a deep dive on the comments from ATP CEO Andrea Gaudenzi in Turin this week, defending his controversial move to extend 1000 events to 12 days in length.

Plus there's a look ahead to the week ahead at the Davis Cup Finals in Bologna, where Matt will be reporting from on-site.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from our respective living rooms on this fine Sunday evening for once tennis's timings have fallen in our favour.
0:23.3	And we are here at the advertised time of 8pm for everybody that's joined us live on YouTube.
0:28.6	Hello to you.
0:30.2	Wasn't looking likely after the 80 minute first set, was it?
0:33.4	We were all making contingency plans after that first set between, of course, Carlos Alcaraz and Yanik Sinner
0:40.2	and of course the 50 minutes of FAF before the first ball was struck
0:43.6	didn't help either.
0:45.4	The set and the match, as I'm sure most of you know, were won
0:49.8	by Yanik Sinner, 7-6-75, defending his ATP finals title in front of an electric home crowd in Turin.
1:00.6	David is live from Solly Holm. Do you enjoy it, David?
1:04.6	I really did. And I think your use of the word electric is suitable because that was one of the better atmospheres that we've had,
1:14.2	I think, on a final day at an AGB finals in many years.
1:18.9	My memory goes back to watching Boris Becker against Pete Sampras in 1996 in Hanover
1:26.5	when Becker was playing the All Conquering Sampras in 1996 in Hanover when Becker was playing the all-conquering Sampras
1:31.5	and that went five sets and it's regarded as one of the great matches of all time and that
1:36.7	sort of atmosphere was a little bit like this one because even though I mean I think Sinha is
1:42.3	a lot more heavily favoured than Becker would have been back then.
1:46.4	But even so, he's still playing the guy who's beat him at the most recent Grand Slam.
1:51.7	He's still playing a guy who you feel like is capable of this otherworldly stuff.
1:56.9	And the crowd felt like they had a big role to play.
1:59.4	They seem to really understand their part and they made it special.
2:03.8	And I think that that all contributed to what you saw at the end
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