{"id":111633,"date":"2025-05-18T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111633\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:04:09","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-reacts-to-being-labelled-the-favourite-for-the-french-open-ahead-of-jannik-sinner-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111633\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz reacts to being labelled the favourite for the French Open ahead of Jannik Sinner clash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carlos Alcaraz faces Jannik Sinner later today in the Italian Open final, in a match that will bring the tennis world to a standstill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After all, these are the sport\u2019s best two male players by some distance, with the 22-year-old\u2019s recent performances reinforcing that notion as he is set to leapfrog Alexander Zverev to take the world number two spot.<\/p>\n

In doing so, he has inadvertently set up another potentially mouth-watering clash in the French Open<\/a> final, with Alcaraz and Sinner now poised to be on opposite sides of the draw.<\/p>\n

However, before that, they have the small matter of a Masters 1000 final to contest.<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz looks ahead to Roland Garros<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking after his hard-fought semi-final victory over Lorenzo Musetti, attention for some already seems to be on the ultimate clay-court event on the tennis calendar.<\/p>\n

After all, whilst the Italian Open<\/a> and Madrid are prestigious and enthralling tournaments in their own right, it does feel like all clay-court roads lead to Paris.<\/p>\n

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One question, formed around Musetti\u2019s admission that Alcaraz must be considered the favourite for Roland Garros, sought to get Alcaraz\u2019s reaction to such a statement.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, he was keen to downplay that kind of talk with another final still to be played: \u2018The thoughts of him that I\u2019m the favourite of Roland Garros, it is great that someone like Lorenzo, who is top 10, seeing myself as the favourite of Roland Garros.<\/p>\n

\u2018I say so many times, I don\u2019t want to think about it. All I can say is, I\u2019m feeling great. I have a lot of confidence right now.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sinner will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of his compatriot after Jasmine Paolini beat Coco Gauff in the Italian Open final<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz faces Jannik Sinner in Italian Open final<\/strong><\/p>\n

And what a match today\u2019s meeting promises to be, with Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> to contest the biggest final of their rivalry thus far.<\/p>\n

Having already faced off for the Beijing crown, in which the latter came out on top, it is the Spaniard who holds a slender lead in their head-to-head (six wins, four losses).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

However, and rather surprisingly, it is instead Sinner who seems to be heading into the final in greater form after handing a bagel to both Casper Ruud and Tommy Paul with some frighteningly relentless hitting.<\/p>\n

It is impossible to call which way this tie could fall, but with these two, one thing is always certain: this match will be an absolute blockbuster, and if the stars align, they could repeat it in the French Open final too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz faces Jannik Sinner later today in the Italian Open final, in a match that will bring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[6359,5066,4718,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-111633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-french-open","10":"tag-jannik-sinner","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114528745408115878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}