Carlos Moya denies report he will coach World No. 1 Jannik Sinner
May 21 - Carlos Moya denied on Wednesday reports that he will be the next coach for World No. 1 Jannik Sinner of Italy.
"Fake news as big as a house," Moya told Radio Nacional de Espana.
Moya, 48, is a former top-ranked player and coach of tennis great Rafael Nadal of Spain.
Sinner will need a head coach in 2026 with the retirement at the end of this year of Darren Cahill, who joined Sinner's coaching team in 2022. Sinner revealed Cahill's pending retirement in January.
In his decades on the tour, Cahill, 59, has helped coach former world No. 1 players Lleyton Hewitt, Andre Agassi and Simona Halep, among others.
Sinner, who is also coached by Simone Vagnozzi, said he wants to give Cahill a victory lap in 2025.
"He brought me so many things," Sinner said in January while competing at the Australian Open. "I don't want to talk so much about his retirement. I feel very, very lucky and happy to be his last player on Tour. He has been an amazing, amazing coach and person, not only for me but for all the other players he has worked with."
Sinner agreed on Feb. 15 to a three-month ban from tennis for violating anti-doping rules. He was originally sanctioned last August with minimal penalty after two positive tests for clostebol, a banned anabolic steroid.
At the time, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said the 23-year-oid Italian was not at fault and that the steroid had entered his system when a support team member who had been using an over-the-counter spray that contained the substance to treat his own wound passed it on to Sinner through therapy performed without gloves.
However, the World Anti-Doping Agency appealed the ITIA ruling the following month. Before the next hearing could be held, Sinner agreed to the three-month ban, the timing of which prevented him from missing any Grand Slams.
Sinner, 23, returned from the ban for the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome and on Sunday lost to newly elevated World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain 7-6 (5), 6-1 in the final.
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