In a great rivalry, a great victory

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