Facebook Tweet Email Link Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Open title in anticlimactic circumstances as rival Jannik Sinner retired due to illness just 23 minutes into the match. Alcaraz raced into a 5-0 lead in the first set of Monday’s final, the 14th matchup between the world’s two best players, when an out-of-sorts and emotional Sinner announced that he was …
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Jannik Sinner retired with an apparent illness 23 minutes into the first set of the Cincinnati Open final against Carlos Alcaraz, ending a highly anticipated matchup between two of the world’s best men’s tennis players quicker than anyone could have imagined. Sinner did not look like himself and fell into an early 5-0 deficit in the first set before he …
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Despite his obvious disappointment at not being able to complete the match, Sinner can take some comfort that it was illness, not injury, that held him back. He was on a 26-match winning streak on hard courts going into the final and had not dropped a set in Cincinnati. Sinner will stay world number one regardless of the loss, but …
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Jannik Sinner provides concerning update after sudden Cincinnati Open final retirement Jannik Sinner’s preparations for his US Open defence have been disrupted by illness after the World No 1 was forced to retire from his Cincinnati Open final against young rival Carlos Alcaraz, lasting just five games. Sinner was clearly out of sorts on a hot day in Ohio and …
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Jannik Sinner will play Carlos Alcaraz in a final for the fourth time this season after both players secured straight-sets wins in their Cincinnati Open semi-finals. Defending champion Sinner, celebrating his 24th birthday, did not face a break point in a 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 win over Terence Atmane. Alcaraz won 6-4 6-3 against an ailing Alexander Zverev, who struggled in …
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Terence Atmane has been the story of the Cincinnati Open so far, having delivered multiple shocking results en route to a maiden ATP Masters 1000 semifinal. After reaching the main draw through qualifying, the Frenchman earned victories over Wimbledon quarterfinalist Flavio Cobolli and Joao Fonseca. Then, in one of the biggest upsets of the season, Atmane defeated Taylor Fritz in …
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Jannik Sinner continued his flawless title defence at the Cincinnati Open with a dominant straight-sets win over Felix Auger-Aliassime. After two failed previous attempts, the Italian finally got a win against the Canadian, beating him 6-0, 6-2 to advance to the semifinals at the ATP Masters 1000 event. Sinner’s winning streak on hard court now extends to 25, and he …
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World number one Jannik Sinner reached the Cincinnati Open quarter-finals with a 6-4 7-6 (7-4) victory over a stubborn Adrian Mannarino. Sinner quickly took control of the match when he broke the 37-year-old Frenchman in the third game. Mannarino, ranked 89th in the world, saved a break point in the seventh game with an ace but the left-hander could not …
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Jannik Sinner had lost five in a row to Carlos Alcaraz before the 2025 Wimbledon final and wasn’t prepared to suffer a sixth-straight defeat. Just one month on from Sinner’s heartbreaking defeat to Alcaraz in the French Open final, the pair met in another major final, at Wimbledon. Stepping onto Centre Court as a slight underdog, Sinner lost the opening …
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Sin-caraz here to stay The level of shot-making and athleticism produced by Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz as their fast-developing rivalry continued in the men’s singles final was a joy to behold. Except, perhaps, if you’re one of the guys trying to usurp them. The pair look set to maintain a stranglehold on the men’s game for the foreseeable future. …
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