Nathan, a co-founder of the sports website Defector Media, has published “ Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men’s Tennis ” with Gallery Books. He spent the 2024 season squarely focused on Sinner and Alcaraz, in which they split the four majors and accelerated their ascension into a tennis stratosphere of their own creation.

It felt like tennis had delivered the perfect script—world No. 1 Jannik Sinner versus world No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz in a Masters 1000 final. Both had torn through the draw in Cincinnati, barely breaking a sweat, setting up the dream clash fans had been waiting for.

Thus, Sinner will almost certainly miss the US Open mixed doubles and enjoy a week off the court ahead of the ultimate challenges. "Now I will take a couple of days to recover, then I will get back to work, hoping to be ready. The US Open is my main goal in the United States," Jannik Sinner said.

You can watch the first two rounds of the U.S. Open mixed doubles championship starting today at 11 a.m. ET on ESPN2 and from 1 p.m. ET on ESPNEWS. The action will also stream on ESPN+. The first two rounds of the U.S. Open mixed doubles championship will be played today, beginning at 11 a.m. ET.

The new, and controversial, US Open mixed doubles event begins this afternoon with big names and star players set to headline the tournament. Among them are Carlos Alcaraz, fresh from his win at the Cincinnati Open,

The US Open senior director of player relations Eric Butorac joined John Isner, Jack Sock and Sam Querry on the Nothing Major podcast ahead of the mixed doubles tournament. And he revealed that Sinner had expressed an interest to play with Williams, who won six US Open singles titles during her career.

Jannik Sinner was forced to retire from his Cincinnati Open final with Carlos Alcaraz – just six days before he begins the defence of his US Open title. In the latest chapter of their enthralling rivalry, the World No.1 and No.2 faced off one final time ...