By Chris Oddo | Sunday August 17, 2025
Carlos Alcaraz had a five-match profitable streak towards Jannik Sinner snapped throughout this 12 months’s Wimbledon last, however the Spaniard is already waiting for beginning one other heater towards the World No.1. Which may sound like an unimaginable job to mere mortals, however to Alcaraz, who touts an 8-5 lifetime file towards the Italian, you by no means know.
Forward of Monday’s last in Cincinnati, the five-time main champion mentioned he’s excited to face Sinner in what would be the pair’s first ever last on a tough court docket, and their 14th assembly general.
“I believe this, if I’m not fallacious, it’s the first last on exhausting court docket,” Alcaraz mentioned. “So I’m enthusiastic about taking that problem. I do know that Jannik, indisputably, he’s the most effective participant on the planet on exhausting court docket and doubtless on each floor proper now. So it’s going to be actually a fantastic match.
“I’ve to be prepared for that, seeing what I did fallacious within the final match. And I’ll attempt to make it higher on Monday. I’m simply glad to be in one other last. I believe it’s my seventh in a row, the fourth towards Jannik. So it’s going to be a fantastic, nice day.”
Alcaraz: Small Particulars Depend
Second-seeded Alcaraz says he learns from all of his battles with Sinner, and he’s at all times on the hunt for tactical wrinkles at his rival that may give him an edge.
“I’d say it’s about small, small particulars,” he mentioned. “And clearly I’m studying. I’m studying from each match and taking part in towards him, as a result of from the primary match, I’m certain he did too. So after, after each match, we now have to rewatch the the match, simply to take notes and to see how I could be higher, and to see tactically, how ought to I play and every little thing, every little thing like that. And examine, you recognize, his actions, examine his techniques, his gameplay, simply to return again to a different match, being, being a bit bit completely different.”
Requested what makes Sinner so troublesome as an opponent, Alcaraz mentioned how he manages to ship top-flight tennis each time they meet, with out fail.
“It’s loopy, the way in which he at all times performs at his his finest, it looks as if it’s a must to earn each level each sport. He makes you endure for the reason that first level of the match, till, till the final, the final ball. The capability of, you recognize, being there mentally, level after level, not having up and downs on the on the match makes him is de facto, actually particular.”
