Carlos Alcaraz of Spain poses for pictures with the Rookwood Cup after successful the lads’s singles title after Jannik Sinner of Italy retired throughout Day 12 of the Cincinnati Open on the Lindner Household Tennis Middle on August 18, 2025 in Mason, Ohio. Dylan Buell/Getty Pictures/AFP (Picture by Dylan Buell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Pictures through AFP)
CINCINNATI — Carlos Alcaraz received the Cincinnati Open title in somewhat greater than 20 minutes on Monday after top-ranked Jannik Sinner was pressured to retire due to sickness in the course of the first set.
Assembly within the last for the fourth time this yr and first since Wimbledon, Sinner fell behind 5-0 within the first set with 9 unforced errors. He was seen with an icepack on his head throughout a break and retired after enjoying simply 22 minutes.
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“Didn’t really feel nice from yesterday,” Sinner stated. “Additionally in the course of the evening, I assumed I’d get well a bit higher, nevertheless it was not the case. I simply tried to exit for the followers, making an attempt to offer a match. Nevertheless it was not meant to be for me right this moment.”
It was solely the third time the Cincinnati Open males’s last resulted in a retirement, and the primary since 2011 when Novak Djokovic stopped enjoying within the second set due to a shoulder damage.
“Needed to want Jannik a speedy restoration and in a couple of days, hopefully he’s going to be OK,” Alcaraz stated. “For myself, I’m actually, actually comfortable to carry the trophy. I misplaced the ultimate right here in 2023. I wished actually badly this trophy.”
Sinner, who turned 24 on Saturday, was on 12-match successful streak and had received 26 straight matches on onerous courts. He was bidding to grow to be the primary participant to win back-to-back males’s Cincinnati Open titles since Roger Federer in 2014 and ’15.
Alcaraz, who’s ranked No. 2, now holds a 9-5 benefit in his matchups with the Italian.
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Sinner received in 4 units at Wimbledon whereas the Spaniard received a five-set thriller on the French Open and in straight units within the Rome Masters in Might.
One other traditional matchup wasn’t to be on Monday. Sinner obtained medical consideration after having his serve damaged for the third time and retired moments later.
“After the third recreation, I simply seen that he wasn’t feeling good,” Alcaraz stated. “I do know him. I’ve been battling in opposition to him, having nice matches, nice battles. I seen he was lacking extra usually. It’s fairly bizarre from him.”
It was solely the third time the highest two males’s gamers have met within the Cincinnati Open last, the final being No. 2 Djokovic and No. 1 Alcaraz in 2022 and No. 1 Roger Federer and No. 2 Djokovic in 2012.
No. 3 Iga Swiatek confronted No. 7 Jasmine Paolini within the girls’s last later Monday.
The Cincinnati Open is taken into account a tuneup for the U.S. Open, which begins Sunday in New York. The final two years, each the lads’s and girls’s Cincinnati Open champions went on to win the ultimate Grand Slam event of the yr.
