{"id":205534,"date":"2025-10-17T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205534\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:21:09","slug":"six-kings-slam-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner-to-meet-in-final-of-saudi-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205534\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Kings Slam: Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner to meet in final of Saudi tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Six Kings Slam finalists have been revealed after Thursday\u2019s semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Jannik Sinner<\/a> will face each other in yet another decider after the pair easily navigated their ties in the last-four.<\/p>\n

The top-two in the world will renew acquaintances on Saturday, and organisers of the exhibition tournament in Saudi Arabia<\/a> will hope for another fine instalment after stellar battles at Roland Garros<\/a>, Wimbledon<\/a> and at the US Open<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\"Sinner<\/p>\n

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Sinner eased past Novak Djokovic in his semi-final (AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Six-time grand-slam champion Alcaraz comfortably beat Taylor Fritz<\/a> 6-4 6-2 and Sinner claimed victory by the same score over an ailing Novak Djokovic<\/a> later on the second day of the contentious event, which is not ATP<\/a>-sanctioned and has attracted criticism.<\/p>\n

Top seed Alcaraz, who argued pre-match that players can be vocal against the packed tennis calendar and play short exhibitions<\/a>, never looked back against Fritz after a break to move 3-2 up.<\/p>\n

\"Alcaraz<\/p>\n

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Alcaraz overcame America\u2019s Taylor Fritz (FAYEZ NURELDINE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

After Alcaraz clinched the opener with his second set point, a superb drop shot sealed the first break of the second set in the fifth game and five games in a row sent the Spaniard into Saturday\u2019s showpiece where a reported six million dollars is on offer for the winner.<\/p>\n

Sinner made light work of Djokovic after similar one-side battles over the past 12 months with the 24-time major champion.<\/p>\n

The Italian was able to break Djokovic in the third game after an excellent rally and two aces closed out set one.<\/p>\n

When Djokovic was broken at the start of the second set, the writing was on the wall for the 38-year-old who suffered a seventh successive defeat to Sinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-205534","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}