Roland Garros 2024: Alcaraz vs Sinner: how many times have they faced each other and who has won the most times

“It’s the game that everyone wants to see” as� describi� Carlos Alcaraz your next meeting in Roland Garros. The man from Murcia will face Jannik Sinner next Friday in the semi-finals of the ‘major’recently number one in the ranking after Djokovic’s withdrawal. The 21 and 22 year olds are called to be the leaders of the men’s circuit for the next few years, after both have won two of the last three Grand Slams: Wimbledon 2023 by Carlos Alcaraz and the Australian Open 2024 por Jannik Sinner.

The party of parties, an early finale between number one and three in the world. The couple, who It has been measured up to eight times with four previous victories for eachwill jump to the Philippe Chatrier with a succulent prize for the winner: his first final in the second Grand Slam of the season.

Eight confrontations in four years

To go back to the first time they both saw each other, we must go back three years ago. And jovenc�simo Alcaraz at 18 years old defeated the Italian in a very close match 7-6(1) and 7-5 in the third round of the Masters 1000 de Paris de 2021. However, it didn’t take long Sinner to take revenge. In 2022Alcaraz arrived at Wimbledon after being crowned Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Barcelona and Madrid within the top10. In the third round the Italian was measured, at that time 10th in the world without any ATP title, he surprised the Murcian and ended up taking the match in four sets 6-1, 6-4, 6-7 (8) And 6-3.

Just a month later, both tennis players They starred in the final of the Umag tournament, where the transalpine hit the table, coming back 6-7(5), 6-1 and 6-1. With a favorable balance for Sinner, they met again in the next Grand Slam, where the team called them in the quarterfinals. Carlos Alcaraz achieved a hard-fought victory in five sets by 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-7(0), 7-5 and 6-3 to finally get up with him ‘major’ the first of his career to become the youngest tennis player to be number one19 years and four months old.

Throughout 2023 they met again in three semi-finals:Indian Wells, Miami y China. The first of them fell on the side of the murcian, who ended up taking the title. Meanwhile, in In the other two confrontations, Sinner managed to emerge victorious, In both tournaments he managed to reach the final against Medvedev. In Miami he came close to lifting the title while in China he achieved his ninth title.

In this year Alcaraz and Sinner will repeat the semifinals they starred in in Indian Wellswhere the Murcian managed to tie the balance between both and revalidate the Californian title.