The new classic of world tennis, starring the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and the Italian Jannik Sinnerwill occur again in the match that will be awarded the biggest prize money in the history of racket sport, the final of the Six Kings Slamwhich will be held in Saudi Arabia with six million dollars for the winner of a rivalry that will experience its twelfth stage, eleventh because they are both professionals, and that Murcia dominated with seven wins out of four.
Rosewall-Laver, Borg-McEnroe, Agassi-Sampras, Federer-Nadal and most recently Nadal-Djokovic marked an era and the current one is marked by Sinner-Alcaraz with These young tennis players, aged 23 and 21, already occupy the first two positions in the ATP rankings and are called to dominate their sport in the next decade.
Riyadh, the Saudi capital, will host a new phase of this series of confrontations that began when the two tennis players, rivals but friends, had not yet made their professional debut. It was in the first round of the ATP Challenger in Alicante, played in April 2019 with Carlos a month away from turning 16 and yet to earn any ATP points and Jannik ranked 17th and 319th in the world. El Palmar won in three sets 6-2, 3-6 and 6-3 and glimpsed a rivalry in the making.
Then, as professionals, this clash It was repeated up to ten times and in six of them the pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero won..
The victories of the Murcian were recorded in 2021, winning the second round of the Paris-Bercy Masters 1,000 (7-6 (1) and 7-5), in 2022 he won the quarterfinals of the United States Open (6-3 , 6 -7 (7), 6-7 (0), 7-5 and 6-3), in 2023 in the semifinals of the Masters 1,000 in Indian Wells (7-6 (4) and 6-3) and this year in the semifinals of Indian Wells (1-6, 6-3 and 6-2), in the semifinals of Roland Garros (2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 and 6-3) and in the recent ATP final 500 in Beijing (6-7 (6), 6-4 and 7-6 (3).
Meanwhile, Sinner won the round of 16 at Wimbledon 2022 (1-6, 4-6, 7-6 (8) and 3-6), the final of ATP 250 at Umag 2022 (7-6 (5) , 1 -6 and 1-6), in the semifinals of Masters 1,000 in Miami 2023 (7-6 (4), 4-6 and 2-6) and in the semifinals of Beijing 2023 (6-7 (4) and 1-6) .
So, this list of matches includes two finals – each tennis player won one – and five semi-finals – 3-2 for the Spaniard – as well as three Grand Slam matches – the Alcaraz’s successes in New York and Paris and the Sinner’s success in London.
Even if it doesn’t give points, it will give prestige and money, lots of moneythe final of the Six Kings Slam, set for this Saturday around eight o’clock in the afternoon – when the match for the third and fourth places between the Mallorcan Rafa Nadal and the Serbian Novak Djokovic ends – The man from Palmar will get there after eliminating Danish Holger Rune 6-4 and 6-2 and then Nadal through doubles 6-3. Sinner, for his part, defeated Russian Daniil Medvedev 6-0 and 6-3 and Djokovic 6-2, 6-7 (0) and 6-4. Those results in Riyadh set the best tennis match to be seen today.
Source: La Verdad
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