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Jannik Sinner dove for a ball in the 2020 Australian Open final, and never really got back up. He has never actually watched the footage back. It ended there, at age 23. 2 grand slams. A couple of months at world number one. A permanent hitch in his stride.
He is 28 years old when he agrees to join the coaching team of rising talent, Carlos Alcaraz.
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Tired of Jannik holding back, avoiding him, and pretending nothing’s wrong, Carlos finally corners him after the US Open. What's the worst that could happen?
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04 Feb 2026
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A drunken mistake changes Nathan’s life in ways he never could have expected, starting with him swearing he’ll never make another drunk mistake again.
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One particular comment had caught his attention.
@ballista : three sure things in life: death, taxes and Sinner absolutely crushing Carlos in his articles lol!!!!!!
Carlos’ curiosity had taken over, and he had found the article again, just to check the author.
Jannik Sinner.
So that was the stranger’s name, then.
His thumb had flown over the name, before clicking on it.
According to his profile, Jannik wasn’t only a tennis journalist. He had many contributions for the Formula 1 section, and also a few for the downhill skiing one. Most articles he had written, though, were about tennis, seemingly regularly for a few years. Carlos had taken a quick look over them, and had realized a few of those articles were about him- or, at least, talking about him. He had clicked on one of them, reading it quickly, before realizing they had been written with the same tone: always laudatory of his opponents, always harsh on him.
OR. Carlos meets a red-haired stranger in an elevator. Little does he know it's going to change his life forever.
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25 Nov 2025
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finito :) molto bello e carino
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“I do not know how much longer I can take this all.” Jannik just cries into the phone, he is unable to apologise for waking Mark up or to explain himself. He hardly ever cries, but right now it is just too much and everything runs free. He cannot take this anymore.
“What do you mean?” Mark asks and yawns.
“Carlos” Jannik breaths.
“What happened?” Mark asks and this time you can hear the care and worry in his voice instead of the sleep.
“I … I visited him for his birthday and it was great. It is just … I know we are just friends, but I cannot stand this anymore … Mark, it just … it hurts, you know?” Jannik whispers. How do you describe to someone else that you spend the last few years living with heartache and that now it is just getting too much?
“Jannik, you need to tell Carlos. This is eating you up.” Mark says softly.
“I cannot!” Jannik whispers. “It would be unfair and selfish. He is my best friend and he has a boyfriend."Or: Carlos and Jannik are footballers. When Carlos and Jannik first meet at practice in 2017 neither of them expected how things would develope between them... if only Carlos would not keep a horrible secret from everyone, including Jannik.