{"id":129357,"date":"2025-09-08T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129357\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:21:07","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-beat-jannik-sinner-at-both-tennis-and-fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129357\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz Beat Jannik Sinner at Both Tennis and Fits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Losing to your arch rival in front of millions of spectators (including Bruce Springsteen) can\u2019t feel great. Losing to your arch rival and having to pose next to him wearing a slightly worse version of the same outfit, however, is a whole other level of hurt. That\u2019s the scenario that unfolded over the weekend in Queens, after Carlos Alcaraz handily bested Jannik Sinner in the men\u2019s singles final of the US Open<\/a>, then showed him up on the podium wearing an identical\u2014and significantly more flattering\u2014Nike tracksuit.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz and Sinner sported the same Nike looks in different colors to accept their US Open hardware.<\/p>\n

Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Alcaraz\u2019s ensemble was a regal shade of purple, which complemented both his skin tone and his massive US Open trophy. Sinner\u2019s corresponding look, meanwhile, was a court-jesterly shade of burnt orange that didn\u2019t quite work with his pale complexion and ginger curls. Their watches, both Rolex Daytonas<\/a>, as fate\u2014and corporate sponsorship\u2014would have it, told a similar story of aesthetic one-upsmanship. Alcaraz sported the new-for-2025 yellow gold \u2018Tona with an extremely covetable turquoise dial, and his god-tier grail easily outshone Sinner\u2019s more subdued \u201csundust\u201d rose gold version. The kicker? It wasn\u2019t the first time.<\/p>\n

Matching in Rome in May\u2026<\/p>\n

Tullio Puglia\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u2026and again at Roland-Garros in June.<\/p>\n

Julian Finney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

As Sinner and Alcaraz have dueled for the number-one spot in the ATP rankings, they\u2019ve turned out in matching fits with surprising regularity this season, from twin rugbies at the French Open<\/a> to identical black zip-ups at the Internazionali BNL D’Italia<\/a>. Sure, there are only so many clothes to choose from on this season\u2019s Nike sample rack, but you\u2019d think someone, somewhere at Swoosh HQ would see the merit of making sure that the two biggest stars in professional tennis don\u2019t show up to the party wearing the same thing. Especially if one of them is going to be wearing head-to-toe burnt orange.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man Meme: Tennis Edition at the 2024 BNP Paribas Open.<\/p>\n

Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Sinner and Alcaraz, of course, surely have weightier things on their mind than wardrobe planning as their rivalry picks up steam. For the rest of us, however, the case of the twinning tennis champs offers a useful cautionary tale. Should you ever find yourself in the same room as someone wearing the same outfit as you, you have two options:<\/p>\n

1. Do everything in your power to make sure you\u2019re never caught standing side by side.<\/p>\n

2. Make like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito<\/a> and lean into it.<\/p>\n

Unless, that is, you\u2019re the one holding the US Open trophy. In which case, no one\u2019s going to be looking at the other guy anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Losing to your arch rival in front of millions of spectators (including Bruce Springsteen) can\u2019t feel great. Losing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,14924,82,11662,593,1778,40531,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-129357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nike","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-style","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","15":"tag-u-s-open","16":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}