Carlos Alcaraz-Jannik Sinner rivalry takes center stage in New York

The latest fight on the Undercard – The male tennis sub -card is really everything that does not imply Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner – ended a few minutes before 11 am at the Arthur Ashe stadium on Friday evening. At this point, the sinner was finishing Felix Auger-Aliassime, beating a setback after the other as if he were ready to do it until Saturday morning until Felix struck by then, finally struck a long. The sinner was in another American open final. Alcaraz was already waiting for him. Now Alcaraz and Sinner are about to start over Sunday afternoon, this time for the national championship of our country in male tennis. And that’s a big thing.

It’s a big thing and a big problem because of everything that has already happened this year. They have already played a final in Paris as exciting as everything that has ever happened on each side of their sport. Alcaraz came out of three match points in the fourth set that day, finally returned from two sets to win in a fifth set equality break. The sinner returned to the Wimbledon final and beat it in four. Now, everything they do on Sunday is fighting for the year in their sport, and for n ° 1. and against each other. Without these three match points saved by Alcaraz at the French Open, the sinner would play today for the Grand Slam calendar. Throw that too in there.

“They raised sport,” said John McENROE on Friday evening, more than 40 years since he and Bjorn Borg have done the same in their rivalry.

Alcaraz and Sinner have done so, and now try to do it again in Ashe. This time, they will do it a football Sunday in America and New York, the two New York football teams opening their seasons and the Yankees finishing an important series against the Blue Jays at the Yankee Stadium. Never mind. Alcaraz and Sinner will once again do tennis opposite Citi Field.

They have already played 14 times. McEnroe and Borg played 14 times before Borg suddenly withdrew after the open final of 1981. It was the end of what Mary Carillo once called the “dean of James of the rivalries”. Alcaraz and Sinner, 22 and 24 respectively, are only beginning, which is shortly after the two remarkable decades and more when Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal combined to win 66 major titles.

Alcaraz and Sinner have already combined to win new. Alcaraz will win his sixth at the Ashe stadium on Sunday, where the sinner will win his fifth. Never before in the history of male tennis, the same two men have played three Grand Chelem finals in the same year until now. Here are these two young guys with this last chance to do their own rivalry in something for ages, these incredibly young ages. Perhaps tennis will go to one of these days and change its calendar for the open ends of the Labor Day, and that gets a better place in the global sports calendar of this country.

A few years ago, Alcaraz and Sinner played a match in the quarter -final at the Open which made five sets before Alcaraz finally won around 2:50 am. Maybe he will go so long, if not finishing so late. Say it again: there are other rivalries in sport right now. Not like this. Another great match for them, in the big city this time.

Yanks need to stop whining on UMPs, timeless facts on Martina and Soto strikes in the MVP Talk…

He should have surprised anyone on Friday afternoon, especially not Novak Djokovic, which Alcaraz, 22, launched the 38-year-old as he did.

An end like that of tennis, in a match with this kind of age difference, is almost always as predictable as the tide.

Before the weekend was over, it would be good if the Blue Jays stopped dads the Yanks, right?

So wait-Kawhi Leonard has another non-presentation work in addition to basketball?

Listening: Everyone watching the Astros’ match on Wednesday evening knows that the Yankees obtained the baseball equivalent of a bad whistle at the end of the balls and the strikes.

However: that does not change the fact that there is no team in baseball, not one, which is more moaning on the referees than the Yankees.

To act as a larger charlatan, Robert F. Kennedy should go through life by sounding like Donald Duck.

Please explain, in September now, why David Stearns, who has a world team or the same series as the Yankees, did not make a bigger game for a launcher leaving on the deadline.

I thought that Elena Ostapenko behaved as badly as possible after losing her match open in the United States with Taylor Townsend.

Nor did I think that she was acting like a racist, despite the way in which everything was treated in the overheated moment.

It will be very interesting, from this Sunday, to see if Jayden Daniels can do it again.

And wouldn’t be something if Eli’s sons could steal the opener today?

Two weeks until season 5 of “Slow Horses” but, hey, who counts?

And know that Mick Herron’s new novel on Jackson Lamb and them, “Clown Town”, goes on sale on Tuesday.

If you like the theater and you can get tickets, try to see Bobby Cannvale and James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris in “Art” in the music box while you can.

The performances are all great, especially Cannavale, but it is almost great in everything.

Jerry Jones should pay for overtime for the way he works for ESPN to sell his cockery version of the Parsons Micah Agreement.

Yankees hope better than n ° 99 can play the outside field for real at the start of the playoffs.

Because he certainly did not play it for the real Friday evening with these lips of lollipop.

Whenever there is a major tennis championship in progress, and people will be able to talk about who is really for this sport, I like to present some timeless facts on Martina Navratilova, who had his own rivalry for ages against Chris Evert:

Martina won 18 major titles in simple, even showing Chris in their first two.

In addition, Martina won 31 major double championships.

And she gained 10 more mixed doubles.

If you keep the scoring at home, it’s 59 in all.

She also won her latest adult, mixed, at the age of 49.

Is all.

Someone catches up with me:

Are we still supposed to be worried that Juan Soto is a sad emoji because there was not with the Yankees?

Do you know what Soto has done since his bad departure?

Hit his way in the MVP conversation.

Is all.

I saw where Bill Belichick had prohibited the scouts of the patriots far from the football training of Caroline du Nord and I thought, holder, Belichick still thinks that he has players that they really want to spot?

By the way, my favorite meme of the week was the one who already had Belichick’s girlfriend in the transfer portal after TCU gave Carolina this beat last Monday evening.

What, too early?