Carlos AlcarazKing of New York. Carlos Alcaraz, king of tennis. Carlos Alcaraz, King of Kings, after beating his great enemy, Jannik Sinner, the final of the US Open (6-2, 3-6, 6-1 and 6-4), which is his sixth Grand Slam, with only 22 years. Without fulfilling the 23, only Bjorn Borg y Rafa Nadal They had won the same large titles, almost nothing, and Carlos has the option of increasing the account in the 2026 Australia Open. But why travel to January after living yesterday in the Arthur Ashe. You will talk about that battle. That of Flushing Meadows The Spaniard took it with some superiority, which is much considering who was in front. If Jannik soon recovered from Bit of falling into Roland Garros Against El Palmar’s boy after having three game balls, Carlos forgot about the defeat in Wimbledon and had his revenge in the US Open. So they are: one hits once, the other learns and hits the next. They feed between them, you will see where the limit is. In the last two years all the Grand Slams have been distributed, in addition to a balanced way: four SINNER, for five in total, and four Alcaraz, which has been six.
What is learning? Knowing that against the redhead of San Cándido does not make much sense to get into an exchange of power to power all the time. You crush you. That is why Juan Carlos Ferrero’s pupil played a practically perfect first part: if the points entered that diabolical dynamic, Spanish stopped them with a cut back up or with a high ball. What is progress? Knowing that the rivals have already studied and can read when you are going to make a left, and turn that psychological fight into a point in favor so that it left it only a threat, and the blow becomes a right -cut right that would sign Manolo Santana himself. With points like this he hallucinated a stand full of celebrities, with Donald Trump at the head. With their volley from the ground, Stephen Curry was surprised or with the crossed rights that destroyed Sinner jumped Spike Lee or Rosalia. The Italian was dislodged. He started with a break against and in the first set he always traded, on the scoreboard and in the game, something that is not accustomed.
Of course, the difficulties had to get somewhere. It’s Jannik Sinner, coconut, circuit terror for all … except for Carlos. The Spaniard showed a ranking service again, but when he was confused with that first blow, the break against. The Italian does not give truce: always stuck in the background to put pressure from the rest. The Murcia tried to recover on that set, fought it, but could not. A partial for each one. It did not suppose Not an abonsors in the self -esteem of Spanish. The encounter had matched a little, but the sensations were still good. It had to be insisted and the third set won almost running. It must be a great sensation to overflow Sinner in an exchange. It is unique, literally, and we will have to ask Alcaraz because only he succeeds. With the rhythm changes with his right, he left his rival without response or with the mold. Accustomed to go ahead of the plays and hit soon, this time the redhead of San Cándido had many times to go behind, far from the ball, running without arriving. Incredible.
But Jannik Sinner was still and the word relaxation could not enter the Spanish dictionary, because at the minimum the Italian is thrown over, it bites and no longer releases. He threatened from the first moment of the fourth set Carlos. Break ball, save Jannik and then he, who accuses of being too cold, robotic, asks for public support. I needed more than usual. He was saved from that and the next threat of breakage. The set continued and when Alcaraz made a balloon and completed it with a parallel setback, then it was the Spanish who asked for the screams. The Arthur Ashe’s march is going to “Charly”as he likes to be called. The feeling was still that the transalpine went to the limit and the fifth game of the fourth set gave up his serve again. He gave it away with a double foul and an unpaired error of the right. The Murcian still remained serious, it was a 3-2 that had to be confirmed. When the problems arrived, a 15-30, the serve to the rescue, to close there or send with the next blow, firmly. “Joy,” Ferrero asked his pupil. It was not time to shake, you had to have a decision. His numbers are impressive with this shot in these two weeks: he has only granted three breaks in seven games. Of course, the first two definitive balls were lifted by the Italian. Nor did the Murcia tremble there. To the third, finally, with a direct service, yes, he could shout to the sky of New York.
Alcaraz’s relationship with the big apple is special, it is clear. There he won his first Grand Slam in 2022 and became the number one of the youngest world in history. And there, in 2025, he has achieved the sixth big to return to the top and dethrone Sinner, who was the king of the ATP since June 11, 2024.
