Sinner makes history: he beats Alcaraz in four sets and is the king of Wimbledon.

We're back on court just over a month after June 8th, the day of the epic Roland Garros final won by Alcaraz in a fifth-set tiebreak after a five-and-a-half-hour spectacle and three match points saved by the South Tyrolean. Sinner's plan is clear, and it's the same as always: attack with power and depth from the baseline to prevent Alcaraz from doing any damage with his unusual forehand and lethal variations . It's crucial to hit plenty of first serves on a surface, grass, where the serve counts for so much.

Sinner secured the first break in the fifth game, just when Alcaraz was down 40-15 and Jannik was able to attack him from the return. But the Spaniard responded in the eighth game, and thanks to two phenomenal points and two errors from Sinner, he regained parity. The South Tyrolean began to make too many mistakes, few first serves and many errors, especially on his forehands: so Alcaraz reached set point thanks to a bloody double fault from Jannik and, with phenomenal defense, took the first set, 6-4 . Errors from the Italian and the usual Alcaraz moment, from 4-2 for the Italian to 6-4 for the Spaniard.

But the first set loss didn't affect Sinner, and in the second he immediately took a break lead, taking advantage of a lapse in the Spaniard's play. The South Tyrolean was feeling the match: he turned nervously to his corner several times and accompanied the long game that gave him the 3-1 lead with a liberating roar we'd never heard before . A turning point, because from here on, Sinner began a practically perfect match, managing to maintain his lead and closing out the second set with a marvelous tenth game . Alcaraz, as always when he's on the ropes, raised his concentration to the maximum and forced him to the ropes, but was powerless against the Italian's phenomenal shots: a backhand passing shot, a lightning-fast forehand down the line on the run, and another crosscourt shot at the end of a long, high-tempo exchange, 6-4 for Jannik.

At the start of the third set, Alcaraz immediately faces two break points, but saves them. And he serves on, without further opportunities, until 4-4, with Sinner hitting two aces in a row (one second serve) in a very delicate situation at 3-4, 30-30. Another sliding door in the match, because then in the ninth game, Jannik has a superb return, the world number 1 forcefully takes a break and then closes out the next game, again 6-4 . Sinner's first serve percentage has skyrocketed, from 55% in the first set to 67% in the second and 68% in the third, as has the quality of his forehand , which was too often faulty in the first set. Alcaraz turns to the bench and exclaims: "How is it possible that he's so much better than me from the baseline?" A moment of frustration he had also had during the Paris final, before the epic comeback.

But this time there was no comeback, the Italian closed it out in the fourth set , opened by Alcaraz with a beautiful game on serve that he finished with a roar. Jannik easily held his own and at 1-1 30-30 he blasted the Spaniard with two backhands down the line, took a break (again forcefully) and began to lead in this set as well . He then held his serve to love to take a 3-1 lead. Immediately afterward, Alcaraz, who seemed almost at the mercy of his opponent, managed to save himself and stay in the game. A very delicate moment at 4-3, when Jannik lost the first serve and had to face two break points, the first of the start of the second set: he came out on top, with a second-hand winner and a very fast rally in which Alcaraz was the first to make a mistake . At 5-4 in the fourth set, the Italian serves for the match and this time he doesn't falter: it shows in the first fifteen, won by Sinner at the end of a long exchange of powerful shots. Then his trademark backhand down the line makes it 30-0. Then he goes to the net for a 40-0 lead and, at 40-15, closes with a service winner that clinches the title . The world number 1 can kiss the London grass, hug his parents and team, caress his mother who suffered so much in the stands and had suffered so much in Paris, and receive the trophy from Princess Kate. The tears, this time, are liberating.