Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are the favourites to meet for the third straight Grand Slam final at the 2025 US Open, and the world No 1 ranking will be on the line if the pair do face off.<\/p>\n
In the last four at Flushing Meadows, Sinner will take on world No 27 Felix-Auger Aliassime<\/a>, while Alcaraz will play seventh seed and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sinner<\/a> has been the ATP world No 1 for 65 consecutive weeks since overtaking Djokovic to ascend to top spot for the first time in June 2024 \u2014 following last year\u2019s French Open.<\/p>\n Alcaraz<\/a> became the youngest world No 1 in ATP history after winning his maiden Grand Slam title at the 2022 US Open at the age of 19 years and four months.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old has spent 36 weeks of his career to date as the world\u2019s highest-ranked player, with his most recent spell on top ending in September 2023.<\/p>\n In the last event before the US Open<\/a>, Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Masters after Sinner was forced to retire due to illness in the first set of the pair\u2019s meeting in the final.<\/p>\n Alcaraz, who is the world No 2, started the US Open on 9,590 points \u2014\u00a0 1,890 points behind Sinner, who had 11,480.<\/p>\n While this was a sizeable gap, Sinner and Alcaraz\u2019s respective performances at the 2024 US Open created the opportunity for there to be a change at the top of the rankings after this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n How Jannik Sinner & Carlos Alcaraz can make Open Era history with US Open final clash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Why Jannik Sinner\u2019s US Open hopes could be affected by the \u2018Drake Curse\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n This is because Sinner is defending 2,000 points as the reigning champion, while Alcaraz is defending just 50 points after a shock second round loss to Botic van de Zandschulp last year.<\/p>\n As things stand before the semi-finals, Alcaraz has increased his points total by 750 to 10,340 points, which has seen him take the No 1 spot from Sinner in the Live ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n Sinner, who is 1,200 points down from his pre-tournament tally, is just 60 points behind Alcaraz on 10,280 points in the live standings.<\/p>\n Therefore, if Sinner were to lose to Auger-Aliassime in the semi-finals, Alcaraz would become world No 1 irrespective of whether he progresses any further.<\/p>\n If Alcaraz were to fall to Djokovic, Sinner could guarantee that he would remain in top spot by reaching the final.<\/p>\n If both Sinner and Alcaraz reach the final, the latter would still hold a 60-point edge, which means the winner would take both the US Open trophy and the world No 1 ranking.<\/p>\n Wins the title \u2013 11,480 points<\/p>\n Loses in the final \u2013 10,780 points<\/p>\n Loses in the semi-finals \u2013 10,280 points<\/p>\n Wins the title \u2013 11,540 points<\/p>\n Loses in the final \u2013 10,840 points<\/p>\n Loses in the semi-finals \u2013 10,340 points<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Novak Djokovic & Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s 8 previous matches \u2013 ahead of US Open encounter<\/a> The post Jannik Sinner vs Carlos Alcaraz: Who is in pole position for No 1 ranking at US Open?<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are the favourites to meet for the third straight Grand Slam final at the 2025 US Open, and the world No 1 ranking will be on the line if the pair do face off. In the last four at Flushing Meadows, Sinner will take on world No 27 Felix-Auger Aliassime, […]<\/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-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}US Open News<\/h2>\n
Jannik Sinner US Open points permutations<\/h2>\n
Carlos Alcaraz US Open points permutations<\/h2>\n
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