NEW YORK (AP) —

Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have played so often, and with so much at stake lately, that they both know each other's game so well.

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So is the No. 1-seeded Sinner, a 24-year-old from Italy, happy to be facing No. 2 Alcaraz, a 22-year-old from Spain, on Sunday at the U.S. Open for the championship, the first time in tennis history the same two men will meet in three consecutive Grand Slam finals within one season?

Well, yes and no.

"We are aware of maybe more things, because him or me, we try to prepare the match tactically and in different ways," said Sinner, who dismissed any concern about an abdominal muscle issue that arose in his semifinal win over Felix Auger-Aliassime. "But sometim

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