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Alcaraz extends Big Titles lead over Sinner with Cincinnati victory

Carlos Alcaraz extended his Big Titles lead over rival Jannik Sinner on Monday when he lifted the Cincinnati Open trophy.

Sinner, the No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, did not lose a set en route to the championship match. But after Alcaraz took a 5-0 lead on Monday, the ailing Italian retired to give the Spaniard a 9-5 lead in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series.

Alcaraz now owns 13 Big Titles — a combination of Grand Slam championships, trophies at the Nitto ATP Finals and ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, and Olympic singles gold medals — and has claimed eight ATP Masters 1000 trophies, more than any active player besides Novak Djokovic (40). 

Big Titles Won: Alcaraz & Sinner

Alcaraz is 8-1 in Masters 1000 finals, with his only defeat coming in the 2023 Cincinnati final, in which he held championship point against Novak Djokovic before the Serbian rallied to victory in a thrilling final-set tie-break. The Spaniard is on a 17-match winning streak at Masters 1000 events.

The 22-year-old has won an ATP Tour-leading six titles this season, including four Big Titles. He has claimed three Masters 1000 crowns in 2025 — in Monte-Carlo, Rome and Cincinnati — as well as a major trophy at Roland Garros.

This is the first year in which Alcaraz has earned four Big Titles in a season after capturing three in each of 2022, 2023 and 2024. He will have four opportunities to add to that tally with the US Open, Shanghai, Paris and the Nitto ATP Finals still to come.

Alcaraz has won a Big Title for every four tournaments he has played in his career. Only Djokovic (3.3) and Rafael Nadal (3.5) have triumphed at a better rate than the Spaniard, with all-time greats like Roger Federer (4.4), Pete Sampras (4.9) and Andre Agassi (6.1) behind him.