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Washington (EFE).- Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Masters 1,000 (United States) for the first time in his career on Monday due to the withdrawal of Italian Jannik Sinner, number 1 in the world and defending champion.
But Alcaraz got back to 0-40 in Sinner's next service game and made it 3-0 on the scoreboard on his third 'break' ball. Sinner seemed totally out of the final and was also not seen interacting with his team to find solutions. With 4-0 and serve for Sinner, Alcaraz once again found himself with two 'break' points, which he achieved with a double fault by the Italian.
Sinner requested medical attention with the score at 5-0 and told the doctors that he didn't feel control over his body and that he couldn't continue. Carlos Alcaraz's first title in Cincinnati
Alcaraz adds the Cincinnati title to his collection, his sixth of the year after having conquered Rotterdam, Monte Carlo, Rome, Roland Garros, Queen’s. On his way to the title, Alcaraz defeated Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, Serbian Hamad Mededovic, Italian Luca Nardi, Russian Andrey Rublev, German Alexander Zverev and Sinner. It was the second time the Murcian player had played the Cincinnati final after losing the 2023 final to Serbian Novak Djokovic. Alcaraz will reduce the distance that Sinner has at the top of the ATP ranking just before the start of the US Open, which the Italian also defends. The defeat breaks a streak of 26 consecutive wins on Sinner's fast court, something only Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal had achieved before this century.
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Sinner decided to retire with 23 minutes of the final played and with the score 5-0 against. "I'm sorry Jannik," Alcaraz wrote in the television camera after the final. It had been exactly a month since Alcaraz and Sinner had faced each other in the Wimbledon final, won by the Italian. In fact, their three previous encounters this 2025 had been in finals: Rome and Roland Garros for Alcaraz and Wimbledon for Sinner. Today, Sinner started the final by conceding his serve at love, an unusual start for him and which seemed to indicate that he had not yet entered the match. Sinner's surprising withdrawalBut Alcaraz got back to 0-40 in Sinner's next service game and made it 3-0 on the scoreboard on his third 'break' ball. Sinner seemed totally out of the final and was also not seen interacting with his team to find solutions. With 4-0 and serve for Sinner, Alcaraz once again found himself with two 'break' points, which he achieved with a double fault by the Italian.
Sinner requested medical attention with the score at 5-0 and told the doctors that he didn't feel control over his body and that he couldn't continue. Carlos Alcaraz's first title in Cincinnati
Alcaraz adds the Cincinnati title to his collection, his sixth of the year after having conquered Rotterdam, Monte Carlo, Rome, Roland Garros, Queen’s. On his way to the title, Alcaraz defeated Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, Serbian Hamad Mededovic, Italian Luca Nardi, Russian Andrey Rublev, German Alexander Zverev and Sinner. It was the second time the Murcian player had played the Cincinnati final after losing the 2023 final to Serbian Novak Djokovic. Alcaraz will reduce the distance that Sinner has at the top of the ATP ranking just before the start of the US Open, which the Italian also defends. The defeat breaks a streak of 26 consecutive wins on Sinner's fast court, something only Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal had achieved before this century.
