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New York – Carlos Alcaraz shed his hands in the air, before he spread broadly smile over his face and crashed on his knees. He just won the title in the open 2025. YearsIn front of a fascinated pile of 24,000 at Arthur Ashe Stadium. But his real celebration could wait.
Before anything, another needed to hug and congratulations to the opponent of Jannik sinners. A couple – the deepest rivals in court, but true friends excluded – they were all smiles and free words as they met online. Then they went with the court with their hands wrapped on the shoulders of each other in the emissions of the original admiration.
It was the third direction in the main final between two, and the weekly final was a possible match – with ticket prices in thousands and world no. 1 Ranking on the line.
In the end it was Alcaraz earned by surprisingly directly 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory for his sixth main name.
But no matter who has finished victory on Sunday, it was clear to enter the match that men tennis currently has two categories: sinner and Alcaraz and everyone else.
“I see you more than my family,” Alcaraz visled during the trophy ceremony as he looked at the sinner.
After Tuesday, Novak Djokovic, Novak Djokovic, which was difficult to beat Alcaraz, was difficult to beat Alcaraz in the semifinals and would be a challenge to face sinner in the final. But he sounded optimistic.
“We know those two of the best players in the world,” he told reporters. “Everyone probably expects and predict the finals between the two. I will try to, you know, mess up plans most people.”
Three days later, Alcaraz won Djokovic in mostly unilateral affair, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-2, to cross the finals. Djokovic’s behavior was especially moved, and he sounded déctions, if he did not resign in his destiny, when he talks about the media again.
“It will be very difficult for me to overcome the obstacle of sinners (I) Alcaraz in the future, at the best of five (U) Grand Slams,” said Djokovic.
The week officially marked the first season since 2002. where no member of the Great Three – Djoković, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal – reached the main final. But it is abundantly clear that the new era of dominations is on us, and the stick was forwarded. And while other players may not have the same physical concern or restrictions that 38-year-old Djokovic in long matches, an obstacle to new great two is real for each player on tour. After winning Alcaraz on Ashe, the Duo combined to win over the past eight major – each straw from the beginning of the season 2024. Years. And the headings are evenly divided between them, with four per piece.
So, with just some degree of hyperbole, the question is: Since even a 22-year-old Alcaraz or 24-year-old sinner, can still not be any other man to win major in the near future?
Two years ago that question may have looked far taken. Max. At the end of the season 2023. Alcaraz had two main titles of his name and the sinner reached its first slam semifinals and the season, but she still had to win the title. Both their talents were clear, and their ceilings were unlimited, but it was not true to argue for each title.
Djokovic, on the other hand, won three of four years of four Slam titles and showed signs of slowing. At the end of the year, the ATP finals, in which he won, he was confident in his abilities to end the main record, and then some in 2024. Years.
“Well, you can win four straws and Olympic gold,” Djokovic said about her goals for the next season.
He used to speak during the season about how much “chances in Grand Slams liked, against any on any surface, the best of five,” he seemed to believe that these ambitions were more than reachable. Greener, which Djokovic was defeated for the ATP final name, called it, “the best player in the world.”
But he promised to learn from experience.
“I think I’ve seen in general today that I still have to improve,” said the sinner at the time. “I believe that makes me a better player, like all other players did who I lost. Now I have to work on it.”
Sinner found his main title on Australian openings for only two months later – to start the season from 2024. And to officially present “Sincaraz” the time of the “SinCaraz” domination.
In 2025. Alcaraz and the sinner faced each other in the previous three Slam finals. Alcaraz won the French opened in a dramatic return and sinners broke the offer of Alcaraza for three-peat in Vimbledon in four sets. Through the last eight major, they collectively faced four other opponents in the final: Djokovic, Taylor Fritz, Daniil Medvedev and Aleksandar Zverev (twice).
After Zverev lost in the right sinner sets on the Australian Open in January, he noticed on the crowd, “I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to raise the trophy.”
Fritz, current world no. 4 who fell into the right sets in open-end ceiling in 2024. years, was pragmatic in his estimate of sinners and alcarases at this stage.
“They both improved a lot,” Fritz said at the beginning of the tournament this year. “I mean, you would expect it because they were both younger, so they are still better, they become better. In the last two years, mass steps have taken themselves in the last two years.
“I think they motivate other guys to improve, because you will need to improve much if you want, you know, beat them and claim for the biggest titles.”
And some others really showed the flashes promises. At seven years in Masters 1000 at the level of this year, Alcaraz won three (and sinners) was aside for four of them While serving a three-month suspension), but four more players – Jack Draper, Jakub Menšik, Casper Ruud and Ben Shelton – also appeared winning.
The 22nd Annual Shelton has now won three Career Titles, including Canadian Canadian in the last month, and has reached a large semifinal twice, including at the beginning of this year in Melbourne. Currently, there is high career ranking no. 6.
“I think those two guys are now, the next few years, those who beat, (but) someone like Ben Shelton,” said the former world no. 4 and current analyst Marie Joe Fernandez. “I was really happy with his progress, seeing him to develop as a player. I still think there’s a lot of improvement left to leave.
“Shelton’s weapons. He’s an entertainer, another player who really fun. If he’s going to get it up, I mean, it’s safe, it’ll be hard because these guys are really very high.”
Shelton was beaten by a sinner only once in seven meetings and never defeated Alcaraz. He was forced to withdraw from his third round match in New York for his shoulder injury.
Brazilian Teen Joao Fonseca, currently ranked no. 44, Is another name that is often mentioned as a future candidate and someone who could one day be able to crash sinners and Alcaraz from their common fell. Former world no. 8 John Isner, who spent his entire career and played with the “big three”, believes that Fonseca has maybe the best chance that every challenges Duo.
“I know we’re pumping Fonsec, but I’m actually going to believe that. Hener,” Ishner said, “said Ishner,” Isner said, wasner, “Isner said,” nothing more “podcast said. “I’m not saying that next year or one year after, but in the next four or five years can be in conversation where one of the best four favorites is to win every slam that enters.”
Fonseca, which seemed in the main major debit in this season and reached the third round in French open and Wimbledon, has yet to face any player. He lost in a second round in New York.
So now, in any case, sinners and alcaraza appear in their league. There is almost a gap in 5000 points between pairs and no. 3 beasts – and the rest of the field in the ranking.
Through the United States, the two were facilitated by the dominant. Moving in the finals, both won at least 95% of their service games – with Alcaraz at 98% and won everything, but two. Greener won 42% of his return games, and Alcaraz took a third of his. Each had three matches during their solutions that lasted two hours or less. After Sinner Handed Alexander Bublik, The No. 23 seed, a 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 loss in just 81 minutes, a shell-shocked but amused bublik congratulated him at the net by saying, “You’re a good. I’m not bad, like the f —?”
Alcaraz opponents had similar feelings. “Just say I think today he was somehow met the Grand Slam version of Carlos,” said no. 20 Semeni Jiri Leheck after loss 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in the quarterfinals. “So I would like to think about it, because yes, that was hard matches.”
Meeting in the weekly final, he marked the second time in the open era that they included all major headlines in two seasons, and the first men in the open era in the same calendar year in the same calendar year in the same calendar in the same calendar year in the same calendar in the same year.
Of course, tennis can be a fickle sport and things can change quickly. For several years, Medvedev seemed to be the next big deal and among the heirs obviously replace the big three. He reached six major finals between 2019. and 2024. year, he won 2021. years, and even briefly held the ranking of the world no. 1. But this year he won only one match in the picture and was upset in the opening in the open French, in Vimbledon and during these two weeks at the United States opened.
Although Medvedev could certainly turn things in 2026. years – and the sinner and Alcaraz showed signs of the future decline – that the current fights of 29 years are simply evidence of how difficult it is to maintain such a high level for a long period.
At this point, while the couple is in the category in the entire and clear favorites for all about everything that goes forward, it is some assuming what will happen. And just like Andy Murray, Stan Vavrinka and Juan Martin Del Potnoes found a way to win the largest phase in Djokovic, Federer and Nadal, there is a room for someone else in the current tennis ecosystem.
“I think that the sinner and Alcaraz in the next three, four years will be dominated,” said the former open quarterfast and ESPN Broadcaster Patrick Mcenroe. “I think they will beat each individual? Not.”
