(Sports News – Tennis News) Sinner and Alcaraz together gave a truly exciting and dramatic match. After 3 hours and 24 minutes of playing rackets, the China Open found a new champion.
Jannik Sinner enters the China Open final as the defending champion. But the world No. 1’s opponent is Carlos Alcaraz, who has an impressive head-to-head record, having beaten Sinner in both of their 2024 meetings.
Alcaraz (right) made a brilliant comeback to defeat Sinner.
The first games of set 1 saw Carlos Alcaraz excited when the Spaniard broke first. At many times, “Little Nadal” had the chance to end set 1 early. But Alcaraz was disappointed when Sinner broke him in the important 9th game. Sinner forced Alcaraz into a tie-break and won 8-6.
After the mistake in set 1, Alcaraz entered set 2 with a certain caution. Finally, Alcaraz equalized the set with exactly 1 break point in game 9. Sinner and Alcaraz then had to decide the winner in set 3.
This set witnessed a tense struggle. Alcaraz continued to break Sinner’s game 3 and then lost game 8. Finally, the China Open championship was decided in a tie-break. There, Sinner started well and led 3-0.
But the audience witnessed a spectacular comeback by Alcaraz. The Spaniard won the next 7 points to win 7-3 in the deciding tie-break. Thanks to that, Alcaraz defeated Sinner 2-1, becoming the new champion of the China Open.
Match statistics
|
Sinner |
7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 6-7 (3-7) |
Alcaraz |
|
6 |
Aces |
6 |
|
4 |
Double fault |
2 |
| 55% |
Serve Rate 1 |
60% |
| 66% (47/71) |
Serve 1 to win a point |
73% (54/74) |
|
53% (31/58) |
Second serve to win the point |
55% (27/49) |
|
33% (2/6) |
Break Point |
20% (3/15) |
|
48% (120/252) |
Total points |
52% (132/252) |
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