Carlos Alcaraz expanded his big titles about rival Jannik Sinner on Monday when he lifted the Cincinnati Open Trophy.
Sinner, the number 1 player in the PIF ATP ranking, did not lose no set on his way to the champion match. But after Alcaraz took a 5-0 lead on Monday, the ailing Italian retired to give the Spaniard a 9-5 lead in their Lexus ATP Head2head series.
Alcaraz now owns 13 large titles – a combination of Grand Slam championships, trophies at the Nitto ATP Finals and ATP Masters 1000 tournaments and Olympic singles gold medals – and has claimed eight ATP Masters 1000 trophies, more than any active player besides Novak Djokovic.
Great titles won: Alcaraz & Sinner
Players | Grand Slams | Wet | 1000S | Total^ (AVG) |
Carlos Alcaraz | 5/18 | 0/2 | 8/31 | 13/52 (4) |
Jannik Sinner | 4/23 | 1/3 | 4/34 | 9/60 (6.7) |
Alcaraz is 8-1 in Masters 1000 Finals, with his only defeat in the Cincinnati Final of 2023, in which he held the championship point against Novak Djokovic before the Serbian kept himself in an exciting definitive set of tie-break. The Spaniard stands on a 17-match winning streak at Masters 1000 events.
The 22-year-old has won an ATP Tour-Leading Six titles this season, including four large titles. In 2025, he demanded three Masters 1000 crowns-in Monte-Carlo, Rome and Cincinnati-Een if an important trophy in Roland Garros.
This is the first year in which Alcaraz has earned four large titles in a season after recording three in each of 2022, 2023 and 2024. He will have four options to add that count with the US Open, Shanghai, Paris and the Nitto ATP finale that still comes.
Alcaraz has won a big title for every four tournaments he played in his career. Only Djokovic (3.3) and Rafael Nadal (3.5) have learned a better pace than the Spaniard, always with greats such as Roger Federer (4.4), Pete Sampras (4.9) and Andre Agassi (6.1) behind him.
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