In a duel between the current world number 1 and 2, the Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner defeated the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz -6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3- the highest paid match in the history of tennis, 5.5 million euros for being the champion of Six Kings Slamexhibition in hard and indoor courts in Riyadh.
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The six participants in the contest (Sinner, Alcaraz, Nadal, Djokovic, Medvedev and Rune) they came to Saudi Arabia with a fixed 1.3 million euros, but the winner of the final has an impressive prize of 5.5 million reserved.
Sinner and Alcaraz, who defeated Djokovic and Nadal in the semifinals, entered the final with an official match mentality despite it being an exhibition and the public witnessed a good game.
Apart from the big financial reward, Jannik and Carlos know that any detail will be important in their rivalry, the two go all out and offer a recital of hard shots: sometimes the Spaniard seems to want and of Italian to separate. the ball, as It is the violence of his blow again and again. There are several hits.
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Sinner hit the final first by breaking Alcaraz in the fourth game (1-3) and then took the lead (4-1). However, Carlos gradually caught up to his rival’s cruising speed, he broke back in the seventh game (4-3) and scored the first set in the tiebreak, a good prize considering the great level of his rival .
Sinner, 23, has won 24 of his last 25 fights, with titles in Cincinnati Masters 1,000he US Openhe Shanghai Masters 1,000he Six Kings Slam and the end of Beijingwhere Alcaraz inflicted his only loss in this phenomenal series.
With his win, coincidentally, the Italian broke his bad three-match losing streak against the Murcian, all three in the same year after always coming back from those games.
Source: La Verdad
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