“We’re different. Carlos is a fire, I ice.” This is how he characterized himself and his rival Sinner in an interview for social networks, etc. Maybe that’s what makes their rivalry a sensation that enjoys tennis fans. The final of the New York Grand Slam will be at the tournament that they both attended, their fifth final encounter in a row, Alcaraz leads 3: 1. Moreover, no one else than the two of them won any Grand Slam for two consecutive years. Last year’s balance is balanced 2: 2, this year Sinner has a lead.
Although he had to take a three -month break as a punishment for doping after the Australian Major, the Italian World number one fought his way to all this year’s Grand Slam finals. After the family Laver and the players “Big Three”, ie Novaku Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal is the only one who succeeded, even as the youngest. He has lost only with Alcaraz in a breathtaking five -hundred -year battle at Roland Garros. Spaniard, on the other hand, defeated in Wimbledon and coped with German Alexander Zverev at the Australian Open.
Twenty-four-year-old Italian won the US Open last year, the successful defense was the last time the Swiss legend Federer between 2004 and 2008. The questions are about his health as he had problems in the abdominal muscle in the semifinals. After the match, however, he assured that he helped him treatment and this is nothing serious. Together he has lost only two sets in the tournament, one in the third round with Canadian Denis Shapovalov, the other in the aforementioned semifinals.
In this statistic, however, it cannot be measured with Alcaraz, who has gone through the spider absolutely sovereign. If this happened today, he would become the first man in history that did not lose any set on his way to the title. In the semifinal he defeated another great rival, Srba Djokovich 6: 4, 7: 6 and 6: 2, and returned to him the defeat of the fight for gold at last year’s Olympics and the quarterfinals of this year’s Australian Open.
The quarterfinal conqueror Jiří Lehečka has a total of five Grand Slam titles at home, one more than his rival. While Sinner is missing an clay trophy, the world two can boast of primarily three tennis surfaces. As a fifth tennis player in the world, he will perform in his seventh Grand Slam finals before the 23 years. The US Open has already won, in 2022.
