Jannik Sinner has lost quite clearly from Carlos Alcaraz the Flushing Meadows final and the number one scepter of world tennis. This does not mean that the world fell on 7 September 2025, nor that the world of Jannik Sinner has fallen. How did the world of Carlos Alcaraz has not fallen when he asked his worldwide, while he was clearly losing the Wimbledon da Sinner final, “How is it possible that it is all the stronger than me?”.
Not even two months have passed and the parties have reversed, but we are talking about a game not of the world upside down. Four Slam Sinner finals in 2025, two won and two lost, three Alcaraz finals two won and one lost, speak of a rivalry in balance.
Because we have to cheer on the Sinner-Alcaraz rivalry
The history of tenniswhich of great rivalries lives and grows in intensity and beauty, It shows that number one is a story of alternation that the balance is made at the end. Navratilova-Evert, Federer-Nadal, Nadal-Djokovic, Lendl-Mac Enroe, Agassi-Sampras teach.
A rivalry on an equal footing between almost peers and different for technical characteristics is a blessing that contrasts saturation and increases the motivation: to win for themselves without real opponents after a while we wears off in the mindyou get bored, even for those who look at the beauty of sport and not know how it ends. In the long run after too many 6-1 on the velvet a worm in the mind begins to work to ask what a sense has to Mcenroe probably arrived too late. So let’s wait for this swing to last and cheer because the rivalry lasts for a long time, because the tennis of these two young phenomena will have beauty in the future. Coming to us, we try to understand how you can interpret the joint of the US Open 2025.
What does the ATP circuit have to do with it
The first element is the quid of imponderable that there is in the fact that you can be more or less in the evening while the challenge at such high levels asks for 100%: whoever manages to give it wins, but not every day are the same, not all the periods are, also because the ATP circuit is one of the most terrible luxury chopped chopping that sport knows: it never stops and, in theory, would demand eleven months of the year of physical and mental form, Davis’s extra load should be added. No human being can remain 100% for such a long season, therefore it is physiological, even healthy, that one moment is more fit, another moment the other.
Especially since from this year the 1000 points tournaments last no more 9 days but 12 for entertainment reasons: it means a different programming, plus days a year away from home, less time to devote to pure preparation. The mechanism of the ranking that brings to the calendar year the points won the previous year requires to play a lot to keep ranking and those who always arrive in the final fatally plays more. It is true that it is an excellently paid effort but this is not the point: however well paid for human bodies we are talking, beyond a certain threshold cannot be given.
Because Sinner has accustomed us too well
The second element is that Sinner has accustomed us well, the fact that it often wins easy does not mean that it is easy. He got used to seeing him win easily the points under pressure, a delicate automatism and particularly effective in him, but which is probably still freeing himself from the rust of three months of stop: Everything can be recreated in training for the time, the habit of playing complex points under a huge pressure in front of the world. Only by inaneing difficult matches does that automatism put back in the running, can it be that Sinner serve more to find all that enamel that was his trademark completely and which still exists even on difficult days, albeit with alternating current, as the many second service points have shown in the final at the US Open 2025, even if not sufficient.
What happened to Sinner’s “first” service
The third element is in the Sinner service that in this tournament has not worked 100% never and even less in the final: It is known that Sinner has slightly changed some details in the movement of the service in recent weeks to increase variations. It is possible that the fatigue of September 7 is the outcome of a still fresh construction site: Fuor of metaphor, one account is to perform the top innovations when things are quiet other is to be able to do it at most pressure with a difficult opponent. If the novelties are fresh, it is possible that they require a physiological time to become an acquired automatism that always works without needing to think.
The input of Vagnozzi is indicative, who towards the end asked Sinner to launch the ball closer, two excellent first ones came out, but, after, the same first ones that previously went to the net because they launched too far were long. A question of millimeters, probably a question of a new automatism to be consolidated. Remember the hesitations of Sinner’s first balls and the 2022 clumsy flight game? They are very improved elements even if they do not belong to Sinner’s nature and are variations that now come in handy. If things are really as we have hypothesized also as regards the service, it will be only a matter of some time: it will be enough that the smell of paint from the construction site that closes and the red of the Val Pusteria will be felt at home in its first ball, perhaps having added a little unpredictability.
The correct synthesis gave her Sinner at the end of the game: “Tonight he played better than me, I’m not a car.” Not even Alcaraz iswho came out closer to Wimbledon has shown that he had worked well on mental continuity and that he has strengthened the reverse long long, But it will be a continuous chasing and it is the beauty of sport: to challenge each other at the limit of the human without losing one’s humanity. We will see some beautiful ones again.
The lesson of Julio Velasco and who can be useful to Sinner
The correct synthesis gave her Sinner at the end of the game: “Tonight he played better than me, I’m not a car.” Not even Alcaraz is, released fogged to Wimbledon has shown that he worked well on mental continuity and that he has strengthened the reverse length, it is possible that these two elements, if they work together with everything else, make the Spanish tennis player even more complete than it is, which makes it at this moment the number one in the name and in fact, but it will be a continuous chasing and is the beauty of the sport: without losing one’s humanity. We will see some beautiful ones again.
What we should now do by spectators, enthusiasts, supporters, for Sinner, as Julio Velasco’s repeatedly repeatedly reminded us, the coach of women’s volleyball is that of victories is intended for it, it is to lighten from the outside: to defuse the perverse mechanism that makes you feel who has shown that they know how to win and has already won so much in the obligation to always win. Because it would be the sure way of putting the worm of fear of losing in his head. While it should always be remembered, even by spectators, that there is always an opponent from there and that sometimes it is not enough even to do everything well if the other does even better, one more reason not to despair if for one evening something has also been wrong, a sign that there is a margin for better evenings.
