Overview

• Sinner opens his China Open campaign against Marin Cilic in Beijing after a post‑US Open reset focused on many small changes and serve refinement.
• His team has added physiotherapist Alejandro Resnicoff, with Sinner acknowledging a temporarily higher error rate as the adjustments bed in.
• Alcaraz begins in Tokyo against Sebastian Baez and says he did not choose the event to avoid Sinner, adding he expects Sinner to introduce changes in their next meeting.
• The two are playing separate ATP 500s this week and are not slated to face each other again before the Shanghai Masters.
• Federer’s suggestion that events have slowed conditions to favor Sinner–Alcaraz finals drew a public rebuttal from Sinner, as Jimmy Connors urged other players to close the gap; in Tokyo, Matteo Berrettini snapped a 137‑day winless run by beating Jaume Munar.