Follow us on Google Discover Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are the dominant forces on the ATP Tour, and the future of tennis looks to be bright.
Alcaraz praised Sinner for his efforts in their latest meeting at the Six Kings Slam final in Saudi Arabia.
The two have met a number of times this year, including in three of the four Grand Slam finals, with Sinner and Alcaraz winning two apiece.
Alcaraz won the most recent Grand Slam final, beating Sinner at the US Open back in September, and the two players always throw up exciting matches.
The rivalry might have come a long way, but as with anything, this one started way back in 2021, with a little over 500 people watching from the stands.
Photo by Ibrahim Ezzat/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe first ATP-level meeting between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner
You have to go all the way back to 2021 for the first ATP-level match between Sinner and Alcaraz, with the Spaniard coming out on top.
Alcaraz won the Paris Masters contest in straight sets, and back then, perhaps it wasn’t completely obvious that this would become the rivalry that it is today.
Alcaraz came through 7-6, 7-5 in a match that produced some brilliant tennis and ignited the rivalry for the very first time.
Novak Djokovic would go on and win the tournament that year, and that won’t be happening this year, with the Serbian legend pulling out of Paris.
Instead, Alcaraz and Sinner will be on a collision course to meet in another final, much to the anticipation of the fans who will be attending the event.
Find it so chic that the first Alcaraz-Sinner match at ATP level took place in a secret underground fight club setting with about 500 people attendingpic.twitter.com/rowSsWVY5Z
— Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan) October 25, 2025
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Sinner and Alcaraz head-to-head
If the Italian world number two is going to compete with Alcaraz, he has to address the balance somewhat, with Alcaraz winning 10-5 in the head-to-head at the moment.
Alcaraz does seem to have Sinner’s number a little bit at the moment, and he will hope to continue such a dominance over the player battling with him for the world number one spot.
The two players will continue to dominate tennis at the moment, with Sinner and Alcaraz very much the only players seemingly capable of winning the game’s big titles at the moment.
Both players are in fine form and it will be fascinating to see if any of them can prevail when it comes to the ATP Finals when they get underway at the end of the year.