Jannik Sinner vs. Carlos Alcaraz odds, prediction: ATP Cincinnati best bet, picks
Depending on how you look at it, Monday’s final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz is either a great sign for men’s tennis or a warning about where things are headed.Ranked Nos.1 and 2 in the world and the winners of the past seven Grand Slams, Sinner and Alcaraz are leaving very little room for anybody else in this era.Combined, Sinner and Alcaraz have gone 74-9 in 2025, and they are 43-2 in their past 45 matches.The scary part is that the two juggernauts are just entering their primes.Sinner turned 24 years old on Saturday, while Alcaraz is 22.All of this is to say it’s not a surprise that top-ranked Sinner and Alcaraz are meeting in the finals of the 2025 Cincinnati Masters, one of the biggest non-Grand Slams on the tennis calendar and the warmup event for the U.S.
Open.Perhaps what is a little surprising is how little rust the two stars have shown in this tournament after long layoffs.Both Sinner and Alcaraz opted to skip the Canadian Masters, and neither played in any other hard-court events during the North American swing, meaning that this is the first event for both since the Italian defeated the Spaniard in the 2025 Wimbledon Final on July 13.Neither player has really put a foot wrong in this tournament, but Sinner has been the more dominant of the two finalists.The 24-year-old from the Austrian border has not dropped a set in his first five matches, and he’s only lost 30 games in that span.That’s an average of three games lost per set.
Incredible.Alcaraz has dropped a couple of sets in his run to the final, but he’s not given us any reason to worry, especially since he’s had a tougher path to this point than Sinner.While Sinner has yet to face a top 25 opponent in Cincinnati, Alcaraz dispatched world No.11 Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals and defeated No.
3 Alexander Zverev in straight sets in the semifinals.It seems that the tennis world expects this rivalry to follow a pattern.Sinner, for the most part, will come out ahead on ha...