Jannik Sinner has won his first Wimbledon championship, beating seemingly his only challenger on tennis’s biggest stages, Carlos Alcaraz, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. It’s the fourth major title for Sinner, the world’s number-one ranked player—and likely a kind of exorcism of the defeat he suffered at the hands of Alcaraz in last month’s epic French Open final .
“I had a very tough loss in Paris,” Sinner said on-court after his win, “but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you win or you lose; you just have to pay attention to the things you did wrong… and that’s one of the reasons I’m holding this trophy… I’m very happy that I hold my nerves. It’s an amazing feeling.”
While the match perhaps won’t garner quite the level of superlatives their French final did, it was incredibly closely f