{"id":21599,"date":"2025-08-18T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/alkaraz-wins-the-cincinnati-open-title-after-the-sick-sinner-retires\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:37:45","slug":"alkaraz-wins-the-cincinnati-open-title-after-the-sick-sinner-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/alkaraz-wins-the-cincinnati-open-title-after-the-sick-sinner-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Alkaraz wins the Cincinnati open title after the sick sinner retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cincinnati &#8211; Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati open title just over 20 minutes on Monday after top-ranked Janik Sinner was forced to retire due to illness in the first set.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth final of the year, Thinner, the first meeting since Wimbledon, was delayed 5-0 in the first set with nine unforced errors. He was seen holding an ice pack in his head during the break and retired after playing just 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Thinner, who turned 24 on Saturday, has won in a row in a row in 12 games, with 26 consecutive wins on the hard court. He had bid to become the first player to win consecutive men&#8217;s Cincinnati Open titles since Roger Federer in 2014 and &#8217;15.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked second, Alcaraz currently has a 9-5 advantage against Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Thinner won four sets at Wimbledon, while the Spaniards won five sets of thrillers at the French Open, winning straight sets at the Masters in Rome in May.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third time the top two male players met at the Cincinnati Open Finals. Novak Djokovic in the final place, and Alkaraz in 2022, and No. 1 Federer and No. 2 Djokovic in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Cincinnati Open is considered a tune-up for the US Open, which begins Sunday in New York. Over the past two years, both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s Cincinnati Open champions have won the final Grand Slam Tournament of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati &#8211; Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati open title just over 20 minutes on Monday after top-ranked Janik Sinner was forced to retire due to illness in the first set. In the fourth final of the year, Thinner, the first meeting since Wimbledon, was delayed 5-0 in the first set with nine unforced errors. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1556,4274,32,1177,5866,29,24,361,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-21599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alkaraz","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-open","11":"tag-retires","12":"tag-sick","13":"tag-sinner","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-title","16":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}