U.S. President Donald Trump salutes during the U.S. Open men's tennis last astatine Arthur Ashe Stadium, successful Flushing Meadows, New York City, connected Sept. 7, 2025.
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No. 1 Jannik Sinner and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz person started the U.S. Open men's last connected Sunday aft a hold of much than a half-hour due to the fact that of other information measures successful spot with President Donald Trump successful a suite astatine Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Increased information checks astatine entrances to the grounds and, separately, to get into the arena's gathering itself caused the U.S. Tennis Association to propulsion backmost the last "to guarantee that fans person further clip to get to their seats."
When the archetypal constituent was played, the 24,000-capacity arena was lone astir two-thirds full, portion thousands of fans inactive were lasting connected the plaza extracurricular Ashe, waiting successful enactment to enter.
Trump is the archetypal sitting president to be the tourney astatine Flushing Meadows since Bill Clinton successful 2000.
Sinner, a 24-year-old from Italy, is trying to go the archetypal repetition men's champion astatine Flushing Meadows since Roger Federer won 5 championships successful a enactment determination from 2004 done 2008.
He's besides bidding for his 3rd Grand Slam rubric of the season, aft the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and 5th of his career.
Alcaraz, a 22-year-old from Spain, is seeking his sixth large trophy wide and 2nd of 2025, aft the French Open. His archetypal Slam rubric came successful New York successful 2022 arsenic a teen — aft defeating Sinner successful the quarterfinals.
Even though some are rather young, theirs is already rather a singular rivalry.
Sunday's showdown represents the archetypal clip successful tennis past that the aforesaid 2 men played each different successful 3 consecutive Grand Slam finals wrong a azygous season.
This hard-court matchup follows Alcaraz's triumph implicit Sinner erasing a trio of lucifer points connected the French Open's reddish clay successful June, and Sinner's triumph implicit Alcaraz connected Wimbledon's writer successful July.
So this is simply a tiebreaker of sorts. Plus the victor volition beryllium astatine No. 1 successful the rankings connected Monday.
No substance who comes retired connected top, this is the eighth consecutive large rubric — and 10th of the past 13 — that volition extremity up successful the hands of Sinner oregon Alcaraz.
Sunday's lucifer is Sinner's 5th last successful a enactment astatine the biggest events successful tennis, a tally that began with his rubric astatine the U.S. Open a twelvemonth ago. Since the commencement of that tournament, helium has won 33 of 34 matches astatine the majors. The loss? To Alcaraz astatine Roland-Garros.
Over the past 2 seasons, Sinner is 1-6 against Alcaraz and 109-4 against everyone else.
Alcaraz, meanwhile, has won 36 of 37 contests since May. The loss? To Sinner astatine the All England Club — besides Alcaraz's archetypal decision successful a Slam final. Alcaraz leads the circuit successful wins (60) and titles (six) successful 2025 and has reached the finals astatine his past 8 tournaments.
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