Wimbledon 2025 Men's Final: Sinner Triumphs as a New Era Arrives at Centre Court

Jannik Sinner ends Alcaraz’s streak and Italy’s wait for a SW19 champion. <strong>Harsh Pareek</strong> looks back on a final rich with history, heart, and the promise of a new golden age for tennis.

Jannik Sinner celebrates his Wimbledon 2025 win.

Writer-editor Harsh Pareek brings you all the courtside drama, flair and finesse from Wimbledon 2025, in #ServeAndVolley.

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AND THEN THERE WAS ONE. After a fortnight of some scintillating tennis at SW19, the oldest and one of the most coveted tournaments in sports, came to an end with a rather fitting final between world number one Jannik Sinner and world number two Carlos Alcaraz.

With Iga Świątek having already sealed the women's singles title in dramatic fashion the day before, it was time for the men to have a go in a repeat of this year's French Open final tie where Spain's Alcaraz came out on top in a five-setter epic.

Two-time defending champion Alcaraz was eyeing his sixth Grand Slam title, while Sinner, playing his first Wimbledon final, hoping to add a fourth to his tally. This also marked the first occasion where the same two men contested the title matches at Roland-Garros and Wimbledon in the same year since the Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal trilogy in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

With both having played some quite impressive tennis over the last two weeks — the Spaniard leaning on his aggressive style and the Italian on his surgical precision — Alcaraz was the pre-match favourite with more experience on the particular court and surface. Sinner though had played the better, and more consistent, tennis — apart from the fourth-round outlier where Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov retired two sets up against him, and he himself sustained an elbow injury — throughout the tournament, and was looking to put the excruciating loss of the clay court slam behind him as swiftly as possible.

With another sunny day at the Centre Court, Sinner drew first blood, taking a 4-2 lead in the first set, but a high-flying Alcaraz hit back, wrapping up the opening set 6-4. But the ice-cool Italian remained unfazed, immediately breaking the Spaniard in the first game of the second set and going 2-0 up, and soon took the second 6-4.

By now, Alcaraz had begun to show signs of lapses in concentration, with poor shot selection, unforced errors and double faults. On the other hand, an increasingly confident Sinner began to tighten his grip on the contest with incredible efficiency, which has become a hallmark of his game, taking the third set 6-4 again with little trouble.

In the fourth set, Sinner once again took the early initiative with 3-1 on the scoreboard. A sense of inevitability and dejection seemed to have settled on Alcaraz, who increasingly looked passive, unable to dictate the proceedings. There was a final test of nerves for the world number one serving at 4-3 and going down 40-15, but the Italian dug in, saving two break points, and finally wrapping up the match 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, and ending a run of five successive losses to Alcaraz.

Sinner was now the first Italian in history to win a Wimbledon singles title.

"Back in the days when I was young, this was only a dream because it was so far away from where I'm from. So I'm just living my dream, it's amazing," said the Italian in his post-match interview. "I'd like to thank my team and everyone who came here for this special day. It means so much. You give me so much emotion on and off the court, and we try to keep pushing and trying to become a better tennis player, but mostly a better person."

Alcaraz, for his part, was all smiles and quick to congratulate the winner. While the two have become on-court rivals in recent years, there is little animosity off-court. "I'm just really happy and really proud about everything I'm doing," said the Spaniard in his interview and later, "This rivalry, it's becoming better and better … I think it’s great for us, and it is great for tennis." With only a year separating the two — Alcaraz is 22, Sinner 23 — it's a long, exciting road ahead for fans of the sport.

More immediately though, it's shaping up to be an exciting 2026 ahead, with Alcaraz, Sinner and Świątek all now chasing a Career Grand Slam, with each missing just one piece of the puzzle in their collections.

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