Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz performs a forehand return to Italy’s Jannik Sinner throughout their males’s singles closing match for the ATP Rome Open tennis event at Foro Italico in Rome on Might 18, 2025. (Picture by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
ROME, Italy — Carlos Alcaraz gained the Italian Open on Sunday after beating rival Jannik Sinner 7-6 (7/5), 6-1 within the closing and firing a warning shot for Roland Garros.
Alcaraz, who will climb to world quantity two behind Sinner on Monday, gained his third title of the season forward of the French Open which begins subsequent weekend.
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The Spaniard claimed victory in his fourth closing of the season and despatched a message to the remainder of the boys’s tour for Roland Garros the place he’ll defend the title.
Sinner tops the world rankings however his 26-match profitable streak was ended by Alcaraz, additionally the person who had final beat him in final 12 months’s China Open closing.
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz exhibits his winner trophy on the finish of his males’s singles closing match in opposition to Italy’s Jannik Sinner for the ATP Rome Open tennis event at Foro Italico in Rome on Might 18, 2025. (Picture by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
Alcaraz is the one man to beat Sinner in a tour closing because the begin of 2024, when his Italian rival started his rise to the highest of males’s tennis and three Grand Slam titles.
The 22-year-old has had a vastly spectacular clay court docket swing this season even with the thigh damage which price him the prospect to compete on the Madrid Open.
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Alcaraz gained in Rome a second Masters 1000 title of the 12 months to go alongside his victory at Monte Carlo final month. He additionally reached the ultimate in Barcelona.
Ending runner-up continues to be a vastly optimistic end result for Sinner in his first event since his three-month ban for testing optimistic twice in March final 12 months for traces of clostebol, a contamination doping authorities accepted was unintentional.
His progress in Rome additionally units up the potential for one other closing conflict with Alcaraz at Roland Garros, with the 2 younger stars of males’s tennis set to be the 2 high seeds in Paris.
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz (l) and Italy’s Jannik Sinner (r) pose for photos on the finish of their males’s singles closing match for the ATP Rome Open tennis event at Foro Italico in Rome on Might 18, 2025. (Picture by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
Sinner was gunning to turn into the primary Italian man to win on the Foro Italico since Adriano Panatta again in 1976, however he didn’t make it a hat-trick of triumphs for house gamers within the Italian capital.
Earlier Jasmine Paolini turned the primary girl since Monica Seles in 1990 to win the Rome singles and doubles titles when she and Sara Errani beat Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens 6-4, 7-5.
Paolini secured that brace of victories a day after overcoming former US Open champion Coco Gauff in straight units, and turning into the primary Italian girl to win the Rome singles title since Raffaella Reggi in 1985.
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