A brief drop in concentration at the start of the third set aside, it was a Sinner procession. The world number one was utterly dominant in a 6-3 6-3 6-4 victory and he will face Carlos Alcaraz in Sunday’s final, just over a month on from the pair’s epic five-and-a-half hour showdown at the French Open. They are the undisputed kings of this new era of men’s tennis, now guaranteed to have shared the last seven Grand Slam titles between them.