As they’ve done time and time again on the biggest stages over the last few years, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have brought out some of their best tennis at the ATP Finals in Turin this week, and now they’ll go head-to-head for season-ending glory on Sunday.
Here are 10 things to know about their blockbuster final clash:
This is the first ATP Finals final between No. 1 and No. 2 since 2016, when then-No. 1 Murray defeated then-No. 2 Djokovic in the final. That was also the last time two players both made it to the ATP Finals final with an undefeated 4-0 record on the week.
This is the first time ever that two players have split the four Grand Slam titles in a season evenly, 2-2, and then played each other in the final of the fifth biggest tournament of the year, the ATP Finals. Which one of Alcaraz and Sinner will finish 2025 with three of the five biggest titles of the year, and which one will finish with two?
Alcaraz and Sinner are only the fourth pair of men this century to meet in five finals in a season as No. 1 and No. 2. The other three pairs were, as you may have guessed, the three different combinations of the Big 3—Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in 2006, Nadal and Djokovic in 2011 and Djokovic and Federer in 2015.
