Alcaraz's net success: continuity in effectiveness. Sinner unloaded at the service
The talent from Murcia played an excellent match, with his usual aggressiveness and game variations. The Italian lost his serve and even in response he was not as incisive as usual: only one break point in his favour
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Three Slam finals (Paris, Wimbledon, New York), three very different matches between Alcaraz and Sinner. Yesterday in Flushing Meadows we did not see the heart-stopping match of Roland Garros, nor the one in London, which was hard-fought but not as tense. The four-set success on the American cement, thanks to which the Spaniard is again world number one, seemed clear-cut, apart from the flare-up in the second set snatched by Sinner (it ended 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4). And it was for various reasons. Certainly for the ineffective serve of the Italian, whose percentage of first balls reached a paltry 48 per cent.
Powerful and aggressive Spanish
.Too little with an aggressive and powerful opponent like Alcaraz, who was able to orchestrate his game in command for most of the time, procuring eleven break points (Jannik was also good at neutralising six of them). On the contrary, the Italian had only one, which he exploited in the second set: another very significant fact, which tells of both the Spaniard's decidedly better percentages on serve (61% first serves, ten ace and not a single double fault) and of Sinner's opaque performance in reply, usually a weapon he can count on even when faced with very heavy serves.
The result was that the Italian almost always played in oxygen debt, suffering from the baseline, trying to break the rhythm with forays at the net, unable to counter Alcaraz's variations of play. He alternated his usual forehand bombs with plush backhands, which were very profitable, and a few short balls. Above all, he did not suffer from those empty passages that sometimes make him lose not a game, but even a set. The continued effectiveness of the Talent of Murcia was lethal: 42 winners (against Sinner's 21).
In any case, both seem decidedly distant from the other players on the circuit, and it is no coincidence that they have shared two Slams apiece this year (the South Tyrolean won in Australia, as well as Wimbledon). The season is still long, we are already looking forward to the next tests (and we look forward to the Finals in Turin, where Jannik is mathematically qualified).
