In the last few hours, a great commotion has been created in the world of tennis after Jannik sinner assured that he had not gone to Saudi Arabia to contest the Six Kings Slam days after winning the Shanghai Masters 1,000 for money.
“I don’t play for moneyit’s very simple. Of course, 6 million is a lot of money, but I went to Riyadh because there were probably the six best players in the world and you can measure yourself against them“, declared the world number 1.
These words were transferred to Carlos Alcaraz during the press conference preceding his debut at Paris-Bercy.
The Murcian, unlike the Italian, assured that the greatest prize in the history of tennis was a “motivation” for him.
“If I say I went there just to have fun or to play and forget about the money, I would be lying. It’s obvious, everyone works for that too, that’s life. “I love playing tennis and most of the time I don’t think about money, I play for love or for fun,” he explained.
“But you have to be realistic, you have to think that you want to make money, that’s all. In Arabia, they gave away the highest prices in history, so It was good motivation, at least for me.“added Alcaraz.
