{"id":14597,"date":"2025-05-17T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/italian-open-jannik-sinner-and-carlos-alcaraz-set-up-blockbuster-final\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:15:35","slug":"italian-open-jannik-sinner-and-carlos-alcaraz-set-up-blockbuster-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/italian-open-jannik-sinner-and-carlos-alcaraz-set-up-blockbuster-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open: Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz set up blockbuster final"},"content":{"rendered":"


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World number one Jannik Sinner set up a blockbuster Italian Open final against Carlos Alcaraz by fighting back to beat American Tommy Paul.<\/b><\/p>\n

Playing on home clay in his first tournament since a three-month doping ban, Sinner overcame an off-key start before overcoming the 11th seed 1-6 6-0 6-3.<\/p>\n

In front of a packed and partisan centre court in Rome, the 23-year-old stretched his unbeaten run to 26 matches and moved one win away from being the first Italian men’s singles winner at the tournament since Adriano Panatta in 1976.<\/p>\n

In a topsy-turvy match, Paul raced to a 5-0 lead en route to a stunning first-set success, during which Sinner made 13 unforced errors and just two winners.<\/p>\n

But the match flipped from the start of the second set as the home favourite steamrollered past Paul to win nine successive games, and the American could not recover.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, Alcaraz dashed home hopes of an all-Italian final by beating Lorenzo Musetti 6-3 7-6 (7-4).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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World number one Jannik Sinner set up a blockbuster Italian Open final against Carlos Alcaraz by fighting back to beat American Tommy Paul. Playing on home clay in his first tournament since a three-month doping ban, Sinner overcame an off-key start before overcoming the 11th seed 1-6 6-0 6-3. In front of a packed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14599,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions\/14599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}