SIX KINGS SLAM – Jannik Sinner (24) beat his biggest rival and world number one Carlos Alcaraz (23) relatively easily 6:2, 6:4 in the final of the exhibition Six Kings Slam in Riyadh. The battle for the prize worth 6 million dollars did not have the expected balanced course, and the Italian dominated the second year in Saudi Arabia and is still undefeated here.
Sinner – Alcaraz 6:2, 6:4
Sinner started the final of the Six Kings Slam against his biggest rival Alcaraz with a break. He served without any complications every time and clearly won the first set in less than half an hour.
The Italian played great aggressive tennis and it was evident that the fast indoor conditions suit his game better. In the fifth game of the second act, Alcaraz averted a total of five break points. Two plays later, Sinner succeeded in receiving and took a 4:3 lead. He lost only one ball on serve and only 73 minutes were enough for him to win comfortably. The star-studded final cast did not bring the expected balanced battle.
The number two player in the world hit one ace less than his opponent, but he absolutely dominated on serve. He lost only eight balls in the entire match and did not have to avert a single break point. While he himself created ten break opportunities and used three of them.
Sinner and Alcaraz also fought in the final of the exhibition in Riyadh last year, and even then the Italian won. Last year, however, he worked much harder to win. When he won only after a turnaround 6:7, 6:3, 6:3. This year, he defeated the Spaniard only for the second time out of six duels, when he only succeeded in the Wimbledon final on the main circuit. On the contrary, in the fight for the title, he lost in Rome, at the French Open, in Cincinnati and at the US Open.
Even after the end of the second year of the exhibition in Saudi Arabia, the Italian is still undefeated. This year he swept Stefanos Tsitsipas, Novak Djokovic and Alcaraz and will take home $6 million. The other tennis players, regardless of placement or number of matches, earned $1.5 million.
Six Kings Slam exhibition results
The article was originally published for Livesport News.
