Beautiful final in the first set, won at the tie break by the Spaniard who then ramphed: 7-6 6-1
Carlos Alcaraz is the new king of Rome. But Jannik is back, archiving the three months of stop for the doping case and dissipating the doubts about the reactivation times of a machine no longer used to shooting a thousand. The dream final confirmed expectations. A beautiful game in the first set, won by the Spanish at the tie break after the Italian had had two sets sets. On the wave of that partial conquered with the teeth, Alcaraz climbed into the chair in the second set, granting only a game: 7-6 (5) 6-1 the score. The number 3 of the world, which will return to 2nd tomorrow by climbing over Zverev, has asserted the greatest variety of play. Jannik compromised the tie break by making a volée, Carlos operated the decisive tears by bringing out some dampened that have demoralized the blue out of the cylinder. Thus, the strip of 26 consecutive victories of Sinner, who had begun after the defeat, is interrupted, coincidentally, against Alcaraz in the Beijing final in October. There is no doubt that the Spaniard is a bit his black beast. The previous ones are 7-4 (excluding the performance of Riad won by Sinner) and Alcaraz won the last four challenges, all those of 2024, including the semifinal at Roland Garros, and that of today.
the game
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It starts immediately strong. Exchanges at maximum power, neither of them wants to leave the command to the opponent. Sinner starts the service and goes 1-0. To the response, place two beautiful showers and a great right to go out, you go to the advantages but Alcaraz makes 1-1. Jannik continues to collect a good dowry of points from the first balls going up to 2-1. The blue is super concentrated and goes again to the advantages in response. The Spaniard, who focuses a lot on the diagonal of law, must cling to the joke to bring home the 2-2. Then, however, it is Carlos who gets the first break ball of the meeting. Here Sinner shows for the umpteenth time because it is number 1: a winning service and two reverse accelerations for the 3-2. It is a beautiful game. The two did not face each other from last October in Beijing (he won Carlos, then 26 wins in a row of Jannik) and had a crazy desire to offer a show worthy of waiting. Very few mistakes, many winners, audience in ecstasy. On the 3-3 Sinner finds himself again in a delicate situation (30-30), and the killer Instinct: super reverse with the Saltello, the trademark, and first impregnable. You enter the highlight of the set, the service does not betray Jannik who keeps his turn to zero and takes to 5-4. No emotion. It is played on the lines, he beats himself without savings. And he gives himself very little to the joke. Until 6-5 for the South Tyrolean. Alcaraz makes three mistakes, three smudges that risk being decisive. Sinner, however, does not take advantage of the two sets Points. We go to the tie break. A wrong volée forces the blue to chase. Next 4-2, Alcaraz doubles foul and yields the mini-break, but then, helped by the tape if he takes it back: 5-3. On 6-4 Alcaraz, Jannik cancels the first set point with a winning reverse, but the Spaniard expertly builds the next point, closed on the net: 7-5 at the tie break and first partial archived. In the second set Sinner escapes 0-30 in response but it is an illusion. In the next game it is Alcaraz to make the break and then double thanks to a comfortable volée wrong by Sinner. There is no game by now, the Spaniard flies 5-0 and closes 6-1.