at the US Open three years ago<\/a> was the first real sign why.<\/p>\n“If this match is the future of men’s tennis, we are in for a great era ahead,” read a tournament tweet after Alcaraz edged a five-set quarter-final thriller that finished at almost 3am local time.<\/p>\n
‘Sin-caraz’ was born. <\/p>\n
On Sunday, the pair return to Arthur Ashe Stadium to contest this year’s US Open final – the third successive Grand Slam showpiece between them.<\/p>\n
“I feel like our rivalry started here playing an amazing match,” said Italian world number one Sinner.<\/p>\n
“We are two different players now, with different confidence too. Let’s see what’s coming.”<\/p>\n
The embryonic potential of 2022 has developed into the real deal in 2025.<\/p>\n
Sinner, 24, and Alcaraz, 22 meeting in another Grand Slam final ensures they will sweep the four majors for the second successive season.<\/p>\n
This year, Sinner defended his Australian Open title before bouncing back from a brutal French Open defeat by Alcaraz by taking away his Spanish rival’s crown when they met again at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
In New York, the pair will become the first men’s players in the Open era to contest three Grand Slam finals in the same season.<\/p>\n
“The matches they have played have been such a high level,” Sinner’s coach Darren Cahill told ESPN.<\/p>\n
“Both guys play a different style, they are trying to push each other and become better tennis players because of the rivalry.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long before either player won a major title, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz had already been identified as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-207643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115163128396248796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}