The conventional wisdom is that the sequel isn’t as good as the original, but the summer tennis blockbuster, Jannik Sinner vs. Carlos Alcaraz, has been pretty great in all incarnations. Five weeks to the day after their instant-classic showdown in the French Open final (won by Alcaraz in a fifth-set match tiebreak), they rematched inside the sport’s cathedral, Centre Court at Wimbledon.
Sinner reversed what happened in Paris, winning the Wimbledon final 4–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4. His first Wimbledon title, and the first won by an Italian, deprived Alcaraz of winning three in a row. It also stopped Alcaraz’s winning streak in this spellbinding rivalry at five, and it gave Sinner his fourth major overall (and third in the last 10 months).
