Carlos Alcaraz had little trouble dismantling Jannik Sinner in the Italian Open final, sealing a 7-6(5) 6-1 victory to snap the world number one’s 26-match winning streak and break the hearts of the home crowd on Sunday.

As we file, Jannik Sinner, the leading Italian tennis player and world No. 1, is playing point for point against the Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz.  If the

Italy’s Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani successfully defended their Italian Open women’s doubles title on Sunday, which enabled Paolini to pull off a WTA double that hasn’t been accomplished in 16 years.

The performance of Italian players at their biggest home tournament has been impressive. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The World No. 1 suffered just her third loss of the season prior to advancing to a final match in Rome, meaning that she has reached six finals out of nine tournaments played in 2025. With a rock-solid game and victories this season over nearly all of her main rivals, Sabalenka enters Roland Garros as the top favorite to win the title.

Peyton Stearns of the United States returns the ball to Jasmine Paolini of Italy during the semi-final tennis match at the Italian Open at the Foro Italico, in Rome, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz serves the ball to Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti during their semifinal tennis match at the Italian Open,

Whatever it was, the top-ranked Sinner cranked up his level to near-perfection at times in a 6-0, 6-1 dismantling of Ruud in the Italian Open quarterfinals on Thursday — a day after Sinner was granted an audience with the new tennis-playing pope just down the road at the Vatican.