Will we witness a new duel at the top between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz to end the tennis year? The Italian, ranked 2nd in the world, qualified, Saturday 15 November, for the final of the ATP Masters, the season-ending tournament that brings together the eight best players, after dethroning Australian Alex de Minaur (7e) in two sets: 7-5, 6-2. Already confident of finishing this 2025 exercise at the top of the rankings, the Spaniard, in the second semifinal, faced the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime (8e).
Title holder Jannik Sinner, 24, offers himself in Turin, in front of his crowd of 30e back-to-back wins on hard indoor, his favorite surface. Facing an opponent he had beaten, before Saturday, twelve times in as many clashes on the circuit, he had only a brief scare, as he trailed 0-40 in his first service game, before managing to pull himself together.
Davis Cup stalemate
Jannik Sinner has not lost a match or a set in the “masters tournament” since the final of the 2023 edition, which was won by Serbian Novak Djokovic. On Sunday, the player, who decided to skip the Davis Cup with Italy, will play his final meeting in a year in which he received a three-month suspension for testing positive for a banned substance, in March 2024, but also won five titles.
A face-to-face meeting with Carlos Alcaraz would be a dream epilogue to the season, while the two share Grand Slam wins: Australian Open and Wimbledon for Transalpine, Roland-Garros and US Open for the Spaniard.
