ATP No. 1 Jannik Sinner retired just 23 minutes into the Cincinnati Open men's singles final, allowing Carlos Alcaraz to win the Rookwood Cup.

After a rough start to the year, Świątek (+310) is now basically neck and neck odds-wise with Sabalenka (+290), who is, again, the defending US Open champion. If anyone can unseat Sabalenka, it sure feels like Świątek is the most likely to do it.

Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Open title in anticlimactic circumstances as rival Jannik Sinner retired due to illness just 23 minutes into the match.

Nathan, a co-founder of the sports website Defector Media, has published “ Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men’s Tennis ” with Gallery Books. He spent the 2024 season squarely focused on Sinner and Alcaraz, in which they split the four majors and accelerated their ascension into a tennis stratosphere of their own creation.

The latest chapter of the Jannik Sinner-Carlos Alcaraz rivalry took a stunning turn on Monday when world No. 1 Sinner retired in the first set of the Cincinnati Open final due to an unspecified health issue.

New details emerge following Jannik Sinner's retirement against Carlos Alcaraz in Monday's Cincinnati Open final.

Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz might have lost in the revamped US Open mixed doubles - but they win the hearts of the New York crowd.