The Jannik Sinner-Carlos Alcaraz period of males’s tennis has formally taken full flight after the celebrity duo’s sensational Grand Slam season within the 2025 calendar yr. The World No.1 and a couple of booked their third successive Grand Slam closing assembly of the yr on the US Open, erasing the path of the Massive 3 on the calendar after 22 years.
For the primary time since 2003, a calendar yr has handed with out Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal reaching a Grand Slam closing. The 24-time champion Djokovic was worn out with medical precision by Alcaraz, who stormed into the ultimate with out dropping a set at Flushing Meadows. In the meantime, a barely wavering Sinner booked his fifth consecutive Slam closing in a four-setter, pipping Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 within the second semi-final on the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday night time. Bracing up for a 3rd successive Slam closing this yr, Alcaraz and Sinner thereby broke a plethora of information.
Jannik Sinner: The Italian conqueror
- 300* – Sinner notched up his three hundredth profession singles victory on the ATP tour. His final 100 wins have come from solely 110 matches, holding a jaw-dropping 90.9 success proportion.
- 87* – Sinner surpassed compatriot Nicola Pietrangeli because the Italian participant with most wins in all Grand Slams together with his 87th victory.
- 5 – Sinner grew to become solely the third males’s singles participant in historical past to achieve 5 successive Grand Slams after Jimmy Connors (1974-75) and Bjorn Borg. (1978-79)
- 24 – Aged 24 years and 19 days, Sinner broke Roger Federer’s report to grow to be the youngest man to achieve all 4 Grand Slam finals in a calendar yr, surpassing the Swiss legend’s report for 27 wins on the age of 25y 19d in 2006.
- 27 – Sinner now has the joint second-most hard-court Grand Slam wins in succession, equalling Novak Djokovic (27). Solely Roger Federer has gained extra consecutive hardcourt Slams, with 40 wins between 2005 and 2008.
An exhale from Jannik!
He’s within the males’s singles closing 😤 pic.twitter.com/BxqZsBsfIP
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 6, 2025
Youngest gamers to achieve all 4 Grand Slam finals in a yr
Jannik Sinner – 24y 19d – 2025
Roger Federer – 25y 19d – 2006
Roger Federer – 26y 18d – 2007
Roger Federer – 28y 23d – 2009
Novak Djokovic – 28y 101d -2015
Carlos Alcaraz: On a sizzling streak
- 22 – Aged 22y 123d, Carlos Alcaraz is the second youngest participant to achieve the US Open closing with out dropping a set within the Open Period after Jim Courier (21y 8d) in 1991. Alcaraz has the chance to grow to be the primary man to win the Slam with out dropping a set.
- 3 – Carlos Alcaraz is the third youngest man to achieve 7 Grand Slam finals in the Open Period behind Bjorn Borg (8 at 22y 83d) and Rafael Nadal (7 at 22y 20d).
Ultimate act sure 🎬
For the primary time since 2022, Carlos Alcaraz is within the US Open title match! pic.twitter.com/K8D0R0lPmh
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 5, 2025
The Alcaraz vs Sinner collision course
Staggeringly, both Alcaraz or Sinner have been a part of all eight Grand Slams within the final two calendar years since 2024.
1 – Sinner and Alcaraz grew to become the primary males’s pair in Open Period historical past to achieve at the very least three Grand Slam finals in a calendar yr.
3* – Sinner and Alcaraz are additionally the first pair since Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal to characteristic in three successive Grand Slam finals, beginning with the Australian Open earlier this yr. Nadal and Djokovic clashed in 4 successive Slam finals between Wimbledon 2011 and the French Open in 2012.