Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, who is the strongest? The staggering statistic
Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are united and divided within a rivalry that is gripping the tennis world and the sports world in general. The two have exchanged the top of the ATP rankings several times during 2025 and faced each other in finals in Rome, Paris, Cincinnati, as well as Wimbledon, the US Open and the ATP Finals. All while maintaining an atmosphere of mutual respect, esteem and fair play that has inspired their fans. Yet there’s a statistic so resounding as to seem unreal, which nonetheless helps to understand how far the balance has gone between the two colleagues, rivals and friends.
Sifting through their many challenges (which at the moment, to be precise, number sixteen), one finds that Sinner and Alcaraz have played each other for a total of fifty sets. At present, however, the points awarded in their matches were 3,302. Who won them? Incredible but true: 1,651 were won by the South Tyrolean, 1,651 by the Murcian. Exactly half each. The chances of such a coincidence occurring were very low, yet this is exactly the scenario that came about after the ATP Finals. The two came to Turin with the Spaniard leading by 6 points, after the final the San Candido prodigy took home 78 to 72. And here is the result.
It should also be noted, however, that Alcaraz has already won ten matches against Sinner, who has thus managed to win only six against his friend-rival at the moment. The parity in overall points thus helps to understand how the South Tyrolean has always sold his skin dearly in his challenges with the other major player of contemporary tennis, forcing him to try his hardest even when he has managed to beat him. Relations between the two are good, and this is evidenced by the many occasions when they have been photographed together almost always with big smiles and handshakes.
But the rivalry exists, all right. “I think both Jannik and I are obsessed with each other. He has lost two or three matches in the last two years and most of them have been against me. It is logical and it is normal. I, on the other hand, have lost to more players, but my thought is to try to improve and do the necessary things so that, the next time we face each other, I will be a much better player” the Iberian champion recently told ‘Marca’. Concrete proof that, net of relaxed relations, Alcaraz and Sinner aim to beat each other, always. But right now the’balance between them is absolute: the numbers certify it.
