The Italian Jannik Sinner defeated the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and sealed another reunion with the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz In the United States Open final, its Grand Slam fourth of the year.
The defender of the title and world number one overcame physical problems to overcome Auger-Aliassime (27) by 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 and 6-4.
Alcaraz and Sinner will be the first duo to face three Grand Slam finals in the same season in the open era (since 1968).
Sinner, 24, is the youngest player to reach the finals of the four Grand Slam tournaments in the same season, in which he already raised the trophies of the Australian and Wimbledon Open.
This brand belonged to Roger Federer since the 2006 season, when the Swiss teacher was 25 years old. Only two more tennis players, Rod Laver and Novak Djokovicthey have achieved this feat.
Sunday’s final will be the third followed between Alcaraz and Sinner, after the victory in June of Spanish in Roland Garros and July of the Italian in Wimbledon.
In the case of Victoria, Alcaraz will unseat Sinner of the ATP leadership, which the Murcian has not held since September 2023.
After a resounding Alcaraz victory in the first semifinal against Novak Djokovicthe shocks arrived unexpectedly in Sinner’s turn.
In front he had an unlikely opponent in Auger-Aliassime, an ancient promise from world tennis coming for years to less.
The Canadian, a semifinalist in 2021, rebounded in this same stage when few expected and eliminated figures like Alexander Zverev with its right athletic and aggressive capacity.
Sinner met the forecasts when the first set was scored by a resounding 6-1.
Suddenly, the 23,000 fans awakened to see how the Canadian broke for the first time, the second set and a sinner sinner was pocketed, requested medical attention when taking a seat.
The number one, which the abdominal area was indicated, received treatment in the costumes and took to enter again.
The speed of his service was dramatically resented but the Canadian initiated a succession of errors in the key moments, failing 10 of his 11 break balls in the game.
In the fourth Set he burned his last cartridges in a fierce fourth game, of more than 10 minutes, in which Sinner resisted four breaks of break, one of them with a dramatic blow that entered by centimeters.
The Italian raised his arms after almost three and a half hours and downplay his discomfort.
“It’s nothing too bad,” he said. “I am very happy. There are no excuses. Sunday is a very special day. An incredible final again. Let’s see what happens.”
