Tennis great Mats Wilander has made the bold prediction” that either Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner will win the calendar Grand Slam in 2025.
Sinner and Alcaraz split the four Grand Slam titles between them in 2024 to solidify their positions as the two leading players of their generation.
Spain’s Alcaraz completed the French Open-Wimbledon double to take his Grand Slam tally to four, while Italy’s Sinner won his maiden major at the Australian Open before adding the US Open crown.
Sinner, 23, secured his maiden year-end world No 1 finish after securing eight titles in an outstanding 2024 campaign. Alcaraz, who is 21, ended the season as the world No 3, behind Alexander Zverev, after winning four tournaments.
The duo are the only ATP players born after 1996 to win major titles, with 28-year-old Daniil Medvedev, who won the 2021 US Open, the next-youngest.
Alcaraz holds a 6-4 record against Sinner having won all three of the pair’s competitive encounters in 2024 — in Indian Wells, Roland Garros and Beijing.
The only man to win all four major titles in the same season in the Open Era is Australian tennis icon Rod Laver, who achieved the remarkable feat in 1969.
Djokovic is the only man to come close to emulating Laver, having won the first three Grand Slams in 2021 before losing in the US Open final. No other male player has won the first three majors held in a season since Laver.
