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Jul 13, 2025, 02:24 PM ETOpen Extended Reactions
Top-ranked Jannik Sinner defeated two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to win his first Wimbledon championship and reverse the result of their epic French Open final last month.
Exactly five weeks after the world No. 1 and No. 2 players completed the second-longest men’s major final on the red clay of Roland Garros — with Alcaraz overcoming a two-set deficit and saving three match points along the way — it was Sinner who had to rally from dropping the opening set on grass to earn his fourth career Grand Slam title.
Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy who won the US Open in September 2024 and defended his Australian Open title in January, was playing in his fourth consecutive major final but first at the All England Club. He is the first Italian player to win a Wimbledon singles title.
Sinner and Alcaraz have combined to win the past seven Grand Slam trophies, and nine of the past 12. Fittingly, this marked the first time the same two men faced off in the title matches at the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year since