Carlos Alcaraz wins the Internazionali d'Italia, to Jannik Sinner the honor of arms

Carlos Alcaraz won the 2025 edition of the Internazionali d’Italia in Rome, a tournament that the Murcian won for the first time in his career. He beat Jannik Sinner, 7-6(5), 6-1, in the final on the Central Court at the Foro Italico. Inevitably directing the match was the tie-break of the first set, which came after Alcaraz had nullified two set points at 6-5. In the second fraction, the world No. 1 paid with interest for the fatigue of these intense days, in which he played six matches in quick succession after a three-month stop.

All in all, the match lasted 105 minutes: as many as 71 those of the first set, 34 those of the second, in which Alcaraz flew up to 5-0, with two games won on Sinner’s serve, before allowing the South Tyrolean to erase the zero from the scoreboard. In head-to-head matches, Alcaraz now leads 7-4 (8-4 counting also a match played at Challenger level in 2019), withm Sinner not beating him since the Beijing semifinals in 2023 and having lost the next four challenges against his rival.

The South Tyrolean champion, number 1 in the world continuously since June 10, 2024, had defeated in previous matches in Rome Mariano Navone 6-3, 6-4 in the second round (he had missed the first thanks to a ‘bye’ to be among the top seeds), Jesper de Jong 6-4, 6-2 in the third round, Francisco Cerundolo 7-6(2), 6-3 in the round of 16, Casper Ruud 6-0, 6-1 in the quarters and Tommy Paul 1-6, 6-0, 6-3 in the semifinals.

The one played today was the second final ever on clay for Sinner, after the 2022 final in Umag, Croatia: on that occasion, too, the opponent had been Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, although on that occasion to which the current ATP No. 1 managed to win in three sets, coming back from 7-6(5) in the first set with a double 6-1.