Sinner Tops Alcaraz at Wimbledon for 4th Career Slam and $4M

Jannik Sinner defeated Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final Sunday in four sets, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. It marked a reversal of their epic French Open last month when Alcaraz rebounded from two sets down to capture the title at Roland Garros in a nearly five-hour match.

“I had a very tough loss in Paris,” Sinner said in his post-match, on-court interview. “You just have to understand what you did wrong, trying to work on that. That’s exactly what we did to try to accept the loss, and just kept working.”

This was Sinner’s fourth straight Grand Slam final and marks his fourth career Slam win after victories at the Australian Open in 2024 and 2025, as well as the 2024 U.S. Open. If Sinner had converted one of his three match points in Paris, we’d be talking about a non-calendar-year Grand Slam—and a chance at a calendar-year one later this summer in Queens.

For the Wimbledon title, Sinner earned £3 million ($4.05 million based on current exchange rates). It pushed his career earnings to $45.7 million, eighth all-time. Alcarez made $2.05 million as runner-up and at 22 years old already ranks sixth all-time at $47.3 million.

Poland’s Iga Świątek dominated American Amanda Anisimova in the Wimbledon women’s final, winning in straight sets 6-0, 6-0 on Saturday. It was just the second double bagel in a Slam final during the Open Era after the 1988 French Open final when Steffi Graf beat Natasha Zvereva. The occurrence before that was 1911.

Sinner and Alcaraz arrived at Wimbledon as the heavy co-favorites to claim the men’s title. They have now captured the last seven Grand Slams between them and have cemented themselves as the next generation of stars after the Big Three of Roger Federer, Nadal and Novak Djokovic dominated for two decades and captured a combined 66 singles Grand Slam titles. Alcaraz has won five career Slams.

Sinner was facing a daunting matchup Sunday. In addition to the memory of his French Open loss, Alcaraz was on a 24-match win streak and had won 20 straight matches at Wimbledon, including the 2023 and 2024 titles. He had also beaten Sinner five straight times since the start of 2024.

Sinner has been incredibly steady with a record of 73-6 in 2024 and had made nine straight finals before he fell in the round of 16 at his last event in Halle, Germany. This is his 20th career title, and he has been ranked No. 1 in the world for 57 straight weeks. He is the first Italian man to win the Wimbledon title.

The past year has been turbulent off the court for Sinner, with his three-month suspension after the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) revealed a pair of positive tests for the banned anabolic steroid clostebol. The ITIA said Sinner bore “no fault or negligence” for the positive tests after an independent hearing. They accepted his explanation that he was tainted by his physiotherapist, who used a healing spray on a cut on his hand before he gave Sinner a massage. Clostebol is an ingredient in certain healing creams and sprays available in Italy.

WADA, which sits above ITIA in the sports doping pecking order, then stepped in to appeal the “no fault or negligence” decision and seek a tennis ban between one and two years. Sinner and WADA reached a deal that called for a three-month ban.

Sinner and Alcaraz were the two highest-paid tennis players in 2024 from prize money, endorsements and appearance fees. Sinner ranked No. 43 in Sportico’s highest-paid athletes with $52.3 million, while Alcaraz was No. 87 at $40.3 million. No other tennis players cracked the top 100. Sinner has more than 10 endorsement partners, and they all stuck with him after the suspension. His partners include Nike, Lavazza, Head, Rolex De Cecco and L’Oreal.