Sunday hosts the championship matches in both men’s singles and women’s doubles.
Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have separated themselves from the rest of the ATP field. They are the top two players in the world by a considerable margin, and will now be the winners of the last six Majors. On Sunday, they face off in a Major final for the first time.
Also on Day 15, it’s the women’s doubles championship match, featuring Anna Dalinina and Aleksandra Krunic vs. Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini (2). This is a first Major final for both Dailina and Krunic. Errani and Paolini were finalists here a year ago, and won Olympic gold on this court last August. Sara is playing for her eighth Major title, just a few days after winning the mixed doubles event alongside Andrea Vavassori. Jasmine is playing for her first Major, as she’s now 0-3 in Slam finals between singles and doubles.
Jannik Sinner (1) vs. Carlos Alcaraz (2) – Not Before 3:00pm on Court Philippe-Chatrier
Sinner is 18-1 on the year, and a perfect 13-0 at Majors. This is just his third tournament of 2025, as he missed three months of competition due to his positive drug test from a year ago. Jannik’s form despite his lack of match play has been phenomenal: he hasn’t dropped a set this fortnight, and has only lost three sets across 12 matches since his return last month in Rome, though two of those sets came against his opponent on Sunday. The 23-year-old Italian is 19-6 in ATP finals, and 3-0 in Majors finals, but this is his first Major final not played on a hard court.
Alcaraz 36-5 in 2025, and 21-1 on clay. He has now advanced to the final in his last six tournaments on this surface, going back to this same event a year ago, which he won. Carlitos has lost four sets through six rounds, being pushed into a fourth set four different times, but he’s yet to be pushed to a fifth. Just like Sinner, Alcaraz is 19-6 in ATP finals, and owns a perfect record in Major finals, which stands at 4-0.
Something has got to give on Sunday, as one of these generational talents will lose their first Major final. Their head-to-head definitely favors Alcaraz: he is 7-4 against Sinner at tour level, and has taken their last four meetings. Two of those recent wins for the Spaniard took place on clay, while another occurred last year at Indian Wells, on another famously slow court. Yet even on a faster surface last fall in Beijing, Alcaraz outlasted Sinner in an over three-hour three-setter, decided by a final-set tiebreak.
At Majors, Carlitos leads 2-1. In the round of 16 three years ago at Wimbledon, Jannik prevailed in four. Just two months later, in the quarterfinals of the US Open, they played one of the best matches in recent tennis history, with Alcaraz prevailing in five, after well over five hours of play that went well into the morning. And last year in the semifinals of this same event, they again went five sets, with Carlitos coming back from two-sets-to-one down. Now their clash again progresses one round further at a Major, in the biggest match of their rivalry.
Sinner is the steadier performer, and unlike Alcaraz, rarely experiences lapses in his form. Yet even though Carlitos’ level can go awry within a match, he usually recovers and plays his best at crucial moments. As their recent matchups have revealed, the 22-year-old Spaniard’s explosive power and movement can lift his game to a higher level than Sinner can achieve, and he has proven to be Jannik’s kryptonite.
Plus, this surface definitively favors Alcaraz, who is 10-5 on clay court finals at tour level, while this only the third ATP final on clay for Sinner. And just three weeks ago in Rome, on a court that plays similarly to the courts in Paris, Carlitos prevailed in straights. But it will be important for Alcaraz to avoid an extended drop in his level during this match, as Sinner will not be as quick as other opponents to allow Alcaraz back into the match.
I expect another compelling, extended battle on Sunday, but Alcaraz is the clear favorite to defend his title and win his fifth Major.
Sunday’s full Order of Play is here.
