Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz played their first final against each other at the Monte Carlo Masters.
Alcaraz won the Australian Open and the Qatar Open in a dominant start to his 2026 season, but he did not have to beat Sinner in the final to do so.
The Spaniard then had some relatively disappointing results during the Sunshine Double, where Sinner won Indian Wells and the Miami Open by beating Daniil Medvedev and Jiri Lehecka in those respective finals.
Sinner beat Alcaraz in the Monte Carlo Masters final, and their records in finals now make for interesting reading.
Jannik Sinner has a better final record than Carlos Alcaraz
Sinner and Alcaraz have both played a similar number of finals in their careers so far, with the former playing just one more championship match than his biggest rival.
Both Sinner and Alcaraz had won 26 titles prior to the Monte Carlo Masters final, and now the Italian has taken a lead after winning his 27th.
Will Jannik Sinner win more Grand Slams than Carlos Alcaraz in 2026?
Which Grand Slams will Jannik Sinner win this year?
From the 36 finals he has played in his career, Sinner has won exactly 75%, which is just marginally ahead of Alcaraz’s 74.3%.
Despite Sinner having the overall advantage, Alcaraz is more dominant in Grand Slam and Masters 1000 finals, having only lost three of his 18 finals at the highest level tournaments.
The big advantage that Sinner has is in lower-level tournaments, with the world number one winning all six of the finals he has played at ATP 250 level.
Sinner has also won two of the three finals he has played at the ATP Finals, while Alcaraz lost his only final in the tournament last year.
| Jannik Sinner in finals | Carlos Alcaraz | |
| Grand Slam | 4-2 (66.7%) | 7-1 (87.5%) |
| ATP 1000 | 8-4 (66.7%) | 8-2 (80%) |
| ATP 500 | 7-2 (77.8%) | 9-3 (75%) |
| ATP 250 | 6-0 (100%) | 2-1 (66.7%) |
| ATP Finals | 2-1 (66.7%) | 0-1 (0%) |
| Olympics | 0-0 | 0-1 (0%) |
| Overall | 27-9 (75%) | 26-9 (74.3%) |
Who has won the most finals between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz?
From the many finals they have already played in their young careers, Sinner and Alcaraz have faced each other in nine of them.
The first of those finals came at the Croatia Open in 2022, where Sinner came from a set down to beat Alcaraz.
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Alcaraz went on to win five of his next six finals against Sinner, which included beating him for both the Roland Garros and US Open titles.
Despite this, Sinner is the only player to beat Alcaraz in a Grand Slam final, having done so at Wimbledon last year.
Sinner has also won the two most recent finals he has played against Alcaraz, closing their head-to-head in championship matches to 5-4 in the Spaniard’s favour.
| Year | Tournament | Result |
| 2022 | Croatia Open | Sinner beat Alcaraz, 6(5)-7 6-1 6-1 |
| 2024 | China Open | Alcaraz beat Sinner, 6(6)-7 6-4 7-6(3) |
| 2025 | Italian Open | Alcaraz beat Sinner, 7-6(5) 6-1 |
| 2025 | Roland Garros | Alcaraz beat Sinner, 4-6 6(4)-7 6-4 7-6(3) 7-6(2) |
| 2025 | Wimbledon | Sinner beat Alcaraz, 4-6 6-4 6-4 6-4 |
| 2025 | Cincinnati Open | Alcaraz beat Sinner, 5-0 (Sinner retired) |
| 2025 | US Open | Alcaraz beat Sinner, 6-2 3-6 6-1 6-4 |
| 2025 | ATP Finals | Sinner beat Alcaraz, 7-6(4) 7-5 |
| 2026 | Monte Carlo Masters | Sinner beat Alcaraz, 7-6(5) 6-3 |
The next tournament where Alcaraz and Sinner could play one another in the final is at the Madrid Open.
However, Sinner has already suggested that he could skip the Madrid Open, a tournament where he has never surpassed the quarterfinals before.
If he does withdraw, then the Italian Open would be the next tournament where both Alcaraz and Sinner are playing.
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