NEW YORK — There’s a lot at stake when No. 1 Jannik Sinner meets No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz within the U.S. Open males’s ultimate on Sunday – with President Donald Trump anticipated to be at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Sinner, a 24-year-old from Italy, is making an attempt to change into the primary repeat males’s champion at Flushing Meadows since Roger Federer gained 5 championships in a row there from 2004 via 2008.
He is additionally bidding for his third Grand Slam title of the season, after the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and fifth of his profession.
Alcaraz, a 22-year-old from Spain, is searching for his sixth main trophy total and second of 2025, after the French Open. His first Slam title got here in New York in 2022 as a young person – after defeating Sinner within the quarterfinals.
Despite the fact that each are fairly younger, theirs is already fairly a exceptional rivalry.
Sunday’s showdown represents the primary time in tennis historical past that the identical two males performed one another in three consecutive Grand Slam finals inside a single season.
This difficult-court matchup follows Alcaraz’s victory over Sinner erasing a trio of match factors on the French Open’s purple clay in June, and Sinner’s victory over Alcaraz on Wimbledon’s grass in July.
So it is a tiebreaker of kinds. Plus the winner might be at No. 1 within the rankings on Monday.
Irrespective of who comes out on high, that is the eighth consecutive main title – and tenth of the previous 13 – that can find yourself within the fingers of Sinner or Alcaraz.
Sunday’s match is Sinner’s fifth ultimate in a row on the greatest occasions in tennis, a run that started together with his title on the U.S. Open a 12 months in the past. For the reason that begin of that event, he has gained 33 of 34 matches on the majors. The loss? To Alcaraz at Roland-Garros.
Over the past two seasons, Sinner is 1-6 towards Alcaraz and 109-4 towards everybody else.
Alcaraz, in the meantime, has gained 36 of 37 contests since Might. The loss? To Sinner on the All England Membership – additionally Alcaraz’s first defeat in a Slam ultimate. Alcaraz leads the tour in wins (60) and titles (six) in 2025 and has reached the finals at his previous eight tournaments.
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