Former world No 1 Andy Roddick has given his verdict on Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s victory against Jannik Sinner in the 2025 Italian Open final.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz<\/a>\u00a0secured his first Rome Masters title as he delivered a stellar performance to defeat Sinner 7-6(5), 6-1 in the championship match.<\/p>\n The world No 2 has won four consecutive matches against Sinner<\/a> and holds a 7-4 head-to-head advantage over his Italian rival.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old Spanish star has now collected all three clay-court Masters 1000 titles, and he has strengthened his favourite status ahead of his French Open title defence.<\/p>\n Speaking on Tennis Channel, Roddick assessed that both Alcaraz and Sinner would be happy with their Italian Open campaigns.<\/p>\n The American said: \u201cYeah, listen at the beginning of the week, if you had said to Carlos, \u2018Hey you\u2019re gonna win this tournament, take out Sinner,\u2019 that\u2019s a 12 out of 10, right?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you had told Sinner, \u2018You\u2019re actually gonna play great tennis, you\u2019re gonna beat Casper Ruud 0 and 1, and then lose to Carlos,\u2019 listen, he would\u2019ve taken that 10 out of 10 times.<\/p>\n \u201cSo this is what needed to happen for both of them. It was the perfect preparation. And Carlos, just flashing all the variety, the threat of the options that he has seemingly keep Sinner off-beat.<\/p>\n How Carlos Alcaraz ended an astonishing Jannik Sinner streak to preserve Roger Federer record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Compared: How Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s 19 ATP Tour titles stack up<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSinner knows what\u2019s coming, he\u2019s gonna beat you. If he doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s coming, then you got a shot like Alcaraz.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked what Sinner needs to do to change the dynamic of the matchup with Alcaraz, Roddick identified the Italian\u2019s returning and second serve as areas for improvement.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the biggest thing today was return position and as effective as he is, sticking that return, especially on second serves, that was missing a little bit today,\u201d said the 2003 US Open winner.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I think he actually pushed the risk towards the sidelines a ton and it\u2019s kind of a tough one, because you know you have to take a little more risk against Carlos because of his wheels, but also not to the detriment of making unforced errors on a high forehand.<\/p>\n \u201cBut, he has to defend the second serve a little bit better, whatever that looks like \u2013 if it\u2019s switching line on that first ball a little bit more often so Carlos can\u2019t be as creative.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd also, I think he would\u2019ve wanted to stick more second serve returns today, which normally is something that he does very well.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong>Points and money earned by Alcaraz, Sinner, Draper, Musetti, Zverev at Italian Open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The post Jannik Sinner told the key to beating Carlos Alcaraz on clay after Italian Open showdown<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former world No 1 Andy Roddick has given his verdict on Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s victory against Jannik Sinner in the 2025 Italian Open final. Alcaraz\u00a0secured his first Rome Masters title as he delivered a stellar performance to defeat Sinner 7-6(5), 6-1 in the championship match. The world No 2 has won four consecutive matches against Sinner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n