Roland-Garros: Is Alcaraz, who leads 8-4 and has won their last four matches, Sinner's bête noire?

For the first time, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz will face off in the final of a Grand Slam tournament. It will be at Roland Garros on Sunday afternoon. The Italian and the Spaniard have met 13 times, including their very first encounter at the 2019 Alicante Challenger, which the Murcian won 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. The latter leads 8-4.

Above all, Alcaraz, who had two semifinal defeats against him in Miami and Beijing in 2023, defeated Sinner in their last four meetings. First in the semifinals at Indian Wells in 2024 with a score of 1-6, 6-3, 6-2. Then, in June, there was this disjointed fight (2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3) in the semifinals of Roland-Garros.

This was followed by an exceptional match snatched in the tie-break of the third set (6-7 [6], 6-4, 7-6 [3]) by the world number 2 in the final in Beijing, also in 2024. And this year, in the final in Rome, a success in two sets (7-6 [5], 6-1) by the protégé of Juan Carlos Ferrero and Samuel Lopez, after an extremely tight first set where the Italian had two set points before cracking.

If we focus on clay, Alcaraz leads 3-1. He won at Alicante in 2019, Roland-Garros 2024 and Rome 2025, while the pupil of Simone Vagnozzi and Darren Cahill emerged victorious in their first duel on the surface on the main circuit. It was in the final of the ATP 500 in Umag in 2022, and the Italian won 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-1.