Carlos Moya calls Jannik Sinner coaching report “fake news”

Carlos Moya shot down reports that he would replace Darren Cahill as Jannik Sinner’s head coach in 2026, calling the story “fake news as big as a house” on Wednesday.

A report from Bolshe! took the tennis world by storm on Tuesday with the news that Moya, a former world No. 1 and coach of Rafael Nadal, would step into the role following Cahill’s retirement at the end of the season. Rumors of a super coach hire date back to earlier this month with names like Moya and Boris Becker (former coach of Novak Djokovic) floated as possible replacements.

Sinner has not commented on the report or the subsequent denial from Moya, The reigning Australian and US Open champion returned to action following a three-month doping suspension last week and finished runner-up to Carlos Alcaraz at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia.

With Moya ostensibly out of the running, it is still unknown who, if anyone, will replace Moya next season, Cahill currently shares the role of head coach with Simone Vagnozzi; together the two won the ATP’s 2023 Coach of the Year Award in the wake of Sinner’s late-season breakthrough.

After ending 2023 with a runner-up finish at the Nitto ATP Finals—where he defeated Novak Djokovic in round-robin play—Sinner went on to defeat Djokovic two more times at the 2023 Davis Cup Finals and the 2024 Australia Open, where he went on to win his first Grand Slam title. Sinner is currently on a 21-match winning streak at hard-court major tournaments, having won the last two Australian Opens and the 2024 US Open.