Last Sunday in Arthur Ashe Stadium, Carlos Alcaraz’s crisp returns troubled Jannik Sinner from the get-go. The Italian, though, had much more to lose. After his Cincinnati Open retirement, Alcaraz was much closer to taking Sinner’s world No. 1 spot. Not to mention the increasing win streak, where the Spaniard leads 10-5. Despite giving it his all, the two-hour and 42-minute battle ended in a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 for Sinner to break his 65-week streak at the top. After the game, though, Jannik Sinner analyzed, “I was very predictable today. On court, in the way he did many things, he changed up the game. That’s also his style of how he plays. Now it’s going to be on me if I want to make changes or not, you know? Definitely we are going to work on that.”

Alcaraz, however, denied that t

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