{"id":295865,"date":"2025-11-16T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295865\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T22:00:08","slug":"jannik-sinner-beats-carlos-alcaraz-to-retain-atp-finals-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295865\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner beats Carlos Alcaraz to retain ATP Finals title"},"content":{"rendered":"

TURIN, Italy (AP) \u2014 The final installment of the \u201cSincaraz\u201d rivalry for 2025 went to Jannik Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second-ranked Sinner beat top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> 7-6 (4), 7-5 for the ATP Finals<\/a> trophy on Sunday in the sixth meeting this year between the two players who are dominating men\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n

Sinner defended the title before his home Italian fans for only his second victory over Alcaraz this year after also beating the Spaniard in the Wimbledon final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an incredible season,\u201d Sinner said. \u201cTo finish it this way, before my Italian fans, is very special for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz had already secured the year-ending No. 1 ranking<\/a> and was contesting his first final at the event for the year\u2019s top eight players.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz still leads his career meetings with Sinner, 10-6.<\/p>\n

Sinner and Alcaraz have met in the last three Grand Slam finals. Alcaraz beat Sinner in a fifth-set tiebreaker to win the French Open<\/a>; Sinner gained a measure of revenge at Wimbledon; then Alcaraz again came out on top at the U.S. Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They also clashed this year in the Italian Open<\/a> final (won by Alcaraz) and the Cincinnati Open<\/a> final (won by Alcaraz when Sinner retired due to illness).<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you are going to be ready for next year because I will be ready to hopefully play more finals against you,\u201d Alcaraz said during the trophy ceremony.<\/p>\n

To which Sinner added that he hopes they have \u201cgreat, great battles ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sinner also won the Australian Open<\/a> \u2014 beating Alexander Zverev in the final \u2014 so he and Alcaraz each won two majors this year.<\/p>\n

In all, Alcaraz has won six majors and Sinner has won four.<\/p>\n

St. Sinner<\/p>\n

Already early in the first set, the pro-Sinner crowd chanted its customary \u201cOle, Ole, Ole, Ole; Sin-ner, Sin-ner.\u201d<\/p>\n

One fan even held up an image of Sinner depicted as a saint.<\/p>\n

Sinner saved a set point at 5-6 in the tight first set with a big second serve that Alcaraz couldn\u2019t return. Then the Italian took control of the tiebreaker by running down a drop shot and responding with a lob that led to an overhead put away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely happy with how I handled the situation,\u201d Sinner said of saving the set point.<\/p>\n

Added Alcaraz, \u201cHe came up with a second serve 185-190 kph (115-118 mph) that surprised me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz\u2019s thigh<\/p>\n

Alcaraz had his right thigh treated by a trainer on two occasions \u2014 and got it wrapped after the first set.<\/p>\n

\u201cDidn\u2019t affect me too much, to be honest, because I could run well,\u201d Alcaraz said.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz broke Sinner\u2019s serve in the opening game of the second set but Sinner then evened it at 3-3.<\/p>\n

Sinner then got the crowd going again in the next game when he won a long rally and held his finger to his ear \u2014 signaling for more noise inside the Inalpi Arena.<\/p>\n

Sinner broke Alcaraz again to close it out when the Spaniard missed a backhand wide \u2013 then fell down to the court on his back in relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a huge emotion,\u201d said Sinner, who was banned for three months earlier in the year after settling a doping case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz led 28-25 in winners but also had more unforced errors, 26-24.<\/p>\n

Sinner said he wanted to improve his serve after the loss to Alcaraz at the U.S. Open and he led 8-5 in aces but also had five double-faults to Alcaraz\u2019s none.<\/p>\n

It was Sinner\u2019s 10th straight win at the finals stretching back to his loss to Novak Djokovic in the 2023 final. What\u2019s more is that Sinner hasn\u2019t lost a set in that stretch.<\/p>\n

Sinner also extended his winning streak on indoor hard courts to 31 matches.<\/p>\n

In the doubles final, Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten beat Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski 7-5, 6-3.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TURIN, Italy (AP) \u2014 The final installment of the \u201cSincaraz\u201d rivalry for 2025 went to Jannik Sinner. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[12082,2073,154481,154480,432,85783,85781,433,99,428],"class_list":["post-295865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-harri-heliovaara","tag-henry-patten","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-joe-salisbury","tag-neal-skupski","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}