Aug 16, 2025, 09:11 PM ET<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> will clash in Sunday’s Cincinnati Open final after the world’s top two players won their respective semifinals Saturday.<\/p>\n World No. 1 Sinner and second-ranked Alcaraz will meet in a repeat of the French Open and Wimbledon finals earlier this summer.<\/p>\n Sinner celebrated his 24th birthday by halting French wild card Terence Atmane<\/a>‘s surprise run to the last four in a 7-6 (4), 6-2 win.<\/p>\n World No. 136 Atmane — who had never been inside the top 100 but will now climb to 69 — went toe-to-toe with Sinner in a tight opening set, but the defending champion found an extra gear in the tie-break and cruised to victory in the second.<\/p>\n It was Sinner’s 26th successive hard-court win and his 12th in a row on all surfaces.<\/p>\n Alcaraz brushed off Alexander Zverev<\/a> in straight sets, beating the German 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n In doubles, British pair Julian Cash<\/a> and Lloyd Glasspool<\/a> saw their 22-match winning streak come to an end in the semifinals.<\/p>\n The Wimbledon champions had won their last four events but lost to Nikola Mektic<\/a> and Rajeev Ram<\/a> 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 16, 2025, 09:11 PM ET Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz will clash in Sunday’s Cincinnati Open final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-88897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88897","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=88897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}