Everything for Alcaraz and Sinner

Temporary shock. Two facts that, hand in hand, show definitively that the future is already present. This year, for the first time since 2003, when Roger Federer won his first Wimbledon, no member of the Triple Slam has won. At the same time, laying the foundations of a new era that had been in sight for some time, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have shared the great prizes of the season. From awareness to numbers. The Spanish, with Roland Garros and his second Wimbledon, and the Italian, with the Australian Open and The US Open was played this Sundaythey have nothing left. From a round of three to one of two. A conflict that, without surprises or new additions, will mark the times to come. As necessary, because tennis has not been orphaned, because it is scary for the rest of the players.

It all started in Oceania, with Sinner’s first big one. In the final of the Australian Open, the Italian defeated Daniil Medvedev, whom he also defeated in the quarter-finals of New York recently. and sent his record of wardenstep predicted, but that did not arrive. Above all, due to physical problems, with 2022 in which violations did not allow it to start to the transalpine. 2023 was, from less to more, something else. His victory in the ATP finals and his role in the Davis Cup in Italy announced his emergence. During the season, he had already started to believe that he could be at the top. “Two years ago I got to know my body and my team better, it was a very important step for me. Last year, we tried to get more results. “I think that made me believe that I can compete against the best players in the world,” he explained after achieving his first Slam.

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Sinner, with the US Open champion award. JOHN G. BUNGALOWEFE

At the US Open, Sinner closed the circle by taking on another big man on a hard court, a surface on which his game, with a forehand and rhythm that is hard to match, shines in his all beauty. The earth and the grass were, previously, the boundaries of Alcaraz, with more variety in his color scheme. A clash of styles that enriches their competition. In the semi-finals of Roland Garros, in which the Spaniard defeated the Italians in five sets, he was seen again. “This is probably one of the most difficult games of my career. Many have been against Jannik, that means he is a good player and the team he has, the great work he does every day. “I hope to play a lot more games like this against him.” Then he dedicated Alcaraz to sinnerswhich they have won in five of their nine games. This year, they have won both matches (the other being the semi-finals of Indian Wells).

The third leg does not come

Without Grand Slams for the rest of the tour, this season, and with Shanghai and Paris to play, Alcaraz and Sinner have opened the doors in the Masters 1,000, with the loot much more spread out. The Spanish captured Indian Wells and the Italian captured Miami and Cincinnati. Stefanos Tsitsipas, in Monte Carlo, Andrey Rublev, in Madrid, Alexander Zverev, in Rome, and Alexei Popyrin, in Canada, complete the list of winners in the second ranking of the tour, which does not find that traditional third leg. Novak Djokovic, together with Zverev himself and Daniil Medvedev, from an intermediate generation that has passed, they are building a wall in front of the rest, away from this top-5. Holger Rune, who was delighted to create a new Big Three, has experienced a regressive campaign (he is 14th in the world) and, among the rest of the young talents, the color still too green. At the same time, everything is for Alcaraz and Sinner.

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