Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Open on Monday after Jannik Sinner was forced to retire due to illness. Alcaraz was already up big on Sinner, the World No. 1, when he had to retire. Sinner told the crowd that he hoped to play after feeling bad overnight, but he couldn't make it work.

In 2023, Djokovic became the first man in tennis history to get to 24 Grand Slams when he won the US Open. What has happened since then is well-documented as Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have established as dominant forces and no one besides those two has won a Major since 2024.

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