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In a great rivalry, a great victory

TIME Magazine

September 29, 2025

IN 2025, FOR THE FIRST TIME in modern tennis history, the same two men met in three major tennis tournament finals in the same year.

- SEAN GREGORY

Carlos Alcaraz, 22, of Spain, won his first duel with Italy’s Jannik Sinner, 24, at the French Open in Paris; that comeback— a five-set, five-hour-plus thriller—still stands as the year’s outstanding sports moment. Sinner got Alcaraz back with a clinical four-set victory at Wimbledon. But on Sept. 7, under the watchful eye of President Donald Trump

This story is from the September 29, 2025 edition of TIME Magazine.

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