Jannik Sinner Joins Big 3 Members in Historic Milestone After Beating Carlos Alcaraz in the ATP Finals Championship
Jannik Sinner closed the season on a 16-match winning streak.
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Jannik Sinner kept his Nitto ATP Finals crown on Sunday in Turin. With loud support from the home fans, he defeated Carlos Alcaraz 7-6(4), 7-5.
Alcaraz and Sinner have been the dominant forces of the 2025 season. Between them, they claimed 13 titles and all four Grand Slams, setting up a fitting showdown on one of tennis’s biggest indoor stages.
Sinner is now the ninth player to win the year-end championship in back-to-back seasons. Only a few greats of the modern era, including Lleyton Hewitt, Roger Federer, and Novak Djokovic, have managed the same achievement.
Playing under intense lights and pressure, Sinner produced fearless, high-precision tennis from start to finish. He saved a crucial set point at 5-6 in the opener and sealed the match after two hours and 15 minutes, becoming one of the few players to win multiple ATP Finals titles on home soil.
How Jannik Sinner beat Carlos Alcaraz in the ATP Finals
Second seed Jannik Sinner fought back from a break down in the second set and handled Carlos Alcaraz’s mix of shots with calm control. His victory pushed his indoor winning streak to 31 matches, a run that began after his last indoor loss to Novak Djokovic two years ago. Since then, he has collected several indoor titles and helped Italy win two Davis Cups.
Sinner finished the week with a perfect 5-0 record and left Turin with the biggest prize money payout in the event’s history. He did not drop a set and now holds the highest winning percentage ever at the ATP Finals, moving past Ilie Nastase. The Italian has won all ten matches he has played at the year-end event over the past two seasons.
Alcaraz had already secured the year-end No. 1 ranking with an unbeaten group-stage run, and he had beaten Sinner in the US Open final. Even so, Sinner responded strongly in front of his home crowd, matching Alcaraz’s intensity from the opening games and producing highlight shots that electrified the arena.
The second set began with Alcaraz breaking serve, but Sinner quickly recovered with a mix of luck and bold play. From there, he raised his level, served better, and earned the decisive break to close out a memorable win in front of an ecstatic Italian crowd.
Alarming Alexander Zverev statistic explains the dominance of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner
Alexander Zverev will end 2025 ranked No. 3 in the world, but a striking statistic shows how far he has slipped from the top of men’s tennis. Despite the high ranking, his season did not match the level of the sport’s leading players.
The German started the year with a run to the Australian Open final, yet he could not build steady form afterward. His early exit at Wimbledon was another setback, and he struggled to regain momentum in the months that followed.
Zverev finishes the season with 5,160 points after failing to reach the knockout rounds at the ATP Finals. Although the ranking places him third, the gap between him and the top contenders tells a different story.
He sits nearly 6,000 points behind Jannik Sinner and even further behind Carlos Alcaraz, the year-end No. 1. Remarkably, the player ranked No. 1000 is closer to Zverev in points than Zverev is to the top two players in the world.
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