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Spain's Carlos Alcaraz (R) greets Italy's Jannik Sinner at the net after winning their 2022 US Open Tennis tournament men's singles quarter-final match against at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on early September 8, 2022. Photo by Corey Sipkin/AFP via Getty Images
NEW YORK—This was a match that would not end. Should not end, one might say.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, two of the brightest young stars of men’s tennis, traded shots of the highest quality and countless momentum swings across five sterling sets for 5 hours, 15 minutes until Alcaraz finally won the last point at 2:50 a.m. on Sept. 8, the latest finish in U.S. Open history.
