In 2025, for the first time in modern tennis history, the same two men met in three major tennis tournament finals in the same calendar year. And this was no fluky occurrence. These two players, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, 22, and Jannik Sinner, 24, of Italy, are far and away the two best players on the planet, and if they remain in good health, stand to hold that distinction for years to come. They’re young and hungry and have already won every major tournament of the past two seasons. Alcaraz won their first duel, at the French Open in Paris, and his comeback, five-set, 5-plus-hours thriller still stands as the outstanding sports moment of the year . Sinner got Alcaraz back with a clinical four-set victory at Wimbledon.

As for the final chapter of this year’s debut Alcaraz-Sinner tri

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