{"id":45728,"date":"2026-04-12T02:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/alcaraz-sinner-vie-for-monte-carlo-title-1st-place-in-ranking\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:28:22","slug":"alcaraz-sinner-vie-for-monte-carlo-title-1st-place-in-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/alcaraz-sinner-vie-for-monte-carlo-title-1st-place-in-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz, Sinner vie for Monte Carlo title, 1st place in ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MONACO &#8212; Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will renew their rivalry as &#8220;Sincaras&#8221; when they face off in Sunday&#8217;s Monte Carlo Masters final for No. 1 in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner, a four-time Grand Slam champion, will regain the top spot if he defeats Alcaraz, a seven-time major champion and Monte Carlo&#8217;s defending champion.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner defeated Alexander Zverev 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday to reach his first Monte Carlo final for the eighth consecutive year. In the semifinals, Alcaraz defeated home favorite Valentin Bachelot 6-4, 6-4, finishing with a spectacular drop shot.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0411%2Fr1641923_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0411%2Fr1641923_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0411%2Fr1641923_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0411%2Fr1641923_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"\/><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Alcaraz heads into his ninth final with a 10-6 lead in the head-to-head matchup with Sinner. Both players are aiming for their 27th career title.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner dominated Indian Wells and Miami, becoming only the fourth male player to reach the finals of the first three Masters tournaments of a season, following Roger Federer (2006), Rafael Nadal (2011) and Novak Djokovic (2015).<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz has won two titles this year, including the Australian Open, where he defeated Djokovic to become the youngest player to win all four tennis tournaments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONACO &#8212; Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will renew their rivalry as &#8220;Sincaras&#8221; when they face off in Sunday&#8217;s Monte Carlo Masters final for No. 1 in the rankings. Sinner, a four-time Grand Slam champion, will regain the top spot if he defeats Alcaraz, a seven-time major champion and Monte Carlo&#8217;s defending champion. Sinner defeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2624,26,673,9101,1221,625,29,24,361,8091],"class_list":{"0":"post-45728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-1st","9":"tag-alcaraz","10":"tag-carlo","11":"tag-monte","12":"tag-place","13":"tag-ranking","14":"tag-sinner","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-title","17":"tag-vie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45728","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=45728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}