When Carlos Alcaraz Beat Jannik Sinner for His Very First Challenger Match at only 15

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Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz face again this Sunday, on the occasion of the Wimbledon final. He will be (already) the thirteenth confrontation, on the ATP circuit, between the two current best tennismen on the planet. Their first official opposition in this field dates back to November 3, 2021, during the second round of the Masters 1000 of Paris-Bercy. But the two players had already crossed the iron two and a half years earlier, in the fir…

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No one imagined on April 2, 2019 that on a peaceful spring afternoon in Villena, Alicante, one of the most important rivalries in the history of tennis was to be born. In front of a group not larger than fifteen people in the stands, on track number 4 of the academy of Juan Carlos Ferrero, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner faced for the first time on the track. Six years later, becoming number one and two in the world, both tennis players will di…

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On April 2, 2019, Carlos Alcaraz, 15, and Jannik Sinner, 17, discovered themselves in the first round of the Challenger de Villena, Spain. An anonymous match between two teenagers, far from announcing the final of Wimbledon which brings them together this Sunday. Several witnesses present in the gallery tell of this meeting.