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'It's going to be a great final': Alcaraz and Sinner ready to electrify Wimbledon after their epic duel in Paris

'It's going to be a great final': Alcaraz and Sinner ready to electrify Wimbledon after their epic duel in Paris

Five weeks after the masterpiece at Roland Garros and the Spaniard's victory, the two best players in the world will meet on the London grass.

By Eric Bruna
Tennis fans still remember the breathtaking match won by Alcaraz (right) on the Parisian clay... Icon Sport/Susan Mullane

These two are inseparable... Barely five weeks after the already legendary Roland-Garros final , the 5 hours and 29 minutes of suspense, the three consecutive match points for Jannik Sinner in the fourth set and the Homeric victory of Carlos Alcaraz at the end of the super deciding game of the 5th set, the world number 1 Italian, 23 years old, and his Spanish runner-up, 22 years old, are fighting this Sunday for the prestigious Wimbledon crown.

A widely anticipated end to the fortnight. Inevitable, even, as the duo is playing on a planet inaccessible to the rest of the circuit. In 2025, the world of tennis strangely resembles a mountain stage of the Tour de France: two men have largely escaped and don't even need to get out of the saddle to increase an already dizzying lead (they have just shared the last six Grand Slams between them), a third (Djokovic) all alone in "chase of potatoes" gradually pulls away as the slope rises and the rest of the peloton does what it can to share the crumbs of the bonuses...

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