Sinner hopes to keep retiring coach Cahill onside

Jannik Sinner enters the final three-event sprint hoping to lure coach Darren Cahill into staying on after the 60-year-old Aussie has announced he wants to retire.

The former ATP player has been instrumental in driving the Italian from a mountain village to the top of the sport, with Sinner now ranked second in the world after touching the top in his long-time duel with Carlos Alcaraz.

It will be a battle of wills as Sinner strives to keep his winning team from dissolving with any departure of the well respected Aussie mentor.

The 24-year-old player with around USD 35 million in career on-court earnings may have to use the lure of cold cash to achieve his goal of keeping Cahill onside.

“We haven’t talked yet, to be honest,” Sinner told the ATP on site in Vienna for this week’s 500 Tour event.

” We said we are going to finish the year, and then we might ask him for a long chat, trying to convince him. 

“But in any case, if he stays or not, he has been an amazing person and obviously a coach for me to hold the whole team together in the tough moments.”

With Grand Slam titles in Melbourne and New York this season along with this month’s win in Beijing. Sinner is well-positioned for 2025; he has opted to skip Italy’s Davis Cup title defence in Bologna next month and will wrap up his season after the November ATP Finals in Turin.

“The results have been amazing, so I will try to make it happen for my own wellbeing,” Sinner said.

He’s been important because I see the effort he puts in, working with a 24-year-old kid flying all over the world and putting in a lot of effort.

“He has family, he has many, many important things to do also off the court and managing this and always putting me basically in the first place, it has been amazing and I’m very sure we can, we can make something very positive.”

Sinner called Cahill his “second father, so I’m happy to have him here. It’s a huge privilege to work with him.

“We aim for something very positive [for him to stay], and I will need a lot of hope for that.”

Main photo:- Darren Cahill with his first Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi with the 2003 Australain Open Trophy – by Roger Parker/Fotosports International