The best tournament in Carlos Alcaraz Savors of his career after winning the second US Open title | US Open Tennis 2025

Carlos Alcaraz described his race for the title of the United States as the best tournament in his career after defeating his rival Jannik Sinner 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in New York to win his sixth title of Grand Chelem.

Alcaraz’s victory involves an incredible five-month race for the 22-year-old, who has reached the final of his last eight tournaments, winning six titles, including the French Open. While many previous triumphs of Alcaraz included many battles in five sets and dramatic returns – such as his recovery from Triple Match Point down to defeat Sinner on five sets in Paris – it was by far the most effective tournament of his career. Alcaraz dropped only one set in his seven games and he lost his service only three times throughout the tournament.

“I feel like it’s the best tournament [of my career]”Said Alcaraz.” From the first laps at the end of the tournament, the best tournament so far I have ever played. The consistency of my level during the whole tournament was really, really high, of which I am really proud, because it is something on which I work, to be really coherent. I think this tournament I saw that I can play really consistent. »»

By beating Sinner, the defending champion and the world number 1, Alcaraz will return to the top of the ATP ranking for the first time in two years. Since he reached No. 1 for the first time in June 2024, Sinner had held the ranking for 65 consecutive weeks. Alcaraz described the n ° 1 ranking as one of its greatest goals of the season.

“When you reach the goals you set at the start of the year, it’s incredible,” said Alcaraz. “Since I had the chance to recover n ° 1, it was one of the first lenses that I had during the season, just to try to recover the number 1 as soon as possible or finish the year as n ° 1. For me, to achieve it, it is still, as I said, it is a dream.

While Alcaraz celebrated a victory that placed him as the second youngest man to win six Grand Chelem titles, behind Björn Borg, Sinner was forced to digest his second final defeat of the Grand Colem against Alcaraz this year. Sinner’s victory over Alcaraz at Wimbledon remains the only Time Sinner defeated Alcaraz during their last eight meetings.

Ninety minutes after the end of the match, the sinner had already started to think about the improvements he wanted to make in order to counter Alcaraz. He described himself as “very predictable” and he said that he planned to modify his game, even if it means losing more games. “I was very predictable today, on the ground in terms of things, he changed the game,” said Sinner. “It is also his style of the way he plays. Now, it will be on me if I want to make changes or not, you know? We will certainly work on it.”