Men’s tennis has finally moved on.
The game has officially emerged from its hazy, post-Big Three hangover. There is no more hand-wringing anxiety over the fact that Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are gone, and 38-year-old Novak Djokovic is clearly on the decline.
That’s because Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have seized center stage with a rivalry so promising that it has already spawned a nearly 300-page book and earned its own nickname despite the fact the two players are in their early 20s.
There is nothing tennis fans would love more than to have the No. 1 Sinner and No. 2 Alcaraz write the next chapter of their rivalry in the final of the U.S. Open , which opens Sunday in Flushing Meadows.
The pair have ruled men’s singles for nearly two years, having won seven straight Gran