今年中国公开赛的男单决赛被视作两大顶尖选手间的激烈对决，确实没有让人失望。经历了三轮艰苦比赛后，西班牙选手卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯在与世界排名第一的詹尼克·西纳的较量中胜出，以6-7 6-4 7-6的成绩获得了他的第16个ATP巡回赛冠军头衔。
比赛中，这两位顶尖球员不断上演精彩的对攻，再次证明了他们目前无疑是世界上最好的两名选手。尽管本年度已经三次战胜西纳，世界排名第三的卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯在胜利后仍高度赞扬对手：“这场比赛非常接近。詹尼克再次展现出他是世界上最好的选手——至少对于我来说。他现在的水平令人难以置信，网球的高质量体现在球技、体能和精神力上，他简直就是个怪兽。”
两位球员在今年共享了四座大满贯赛事冠军奖杯，西纳在澳大利亚公开赛和美国公开赛上夺冠，而阿尔卡拉斯则赢得了温布雷登网球锦标赛和法国网球公开赛。不过，在周三的比赛中，一开始表现更出色的似乎是后者——阿尔卡拉斯在首盘快速建立起领先优势。
然而，西纳迅速找回了比赛节奏，并在第一盘局点中险胜，避免了被逆转的局面。赛前已保持15连胜记录的意大利选手接着对对手施加巨大压力，在第二轮中，阿尔卡拉斯多次经受住破发点考验才勉强守住局面，从而将比分扳平并把比赛拖入决胜盘。
在第三盘比赛中，阿尔卡拉斯似乎掌握了优势，建立了3-1的领先，但西纳并未就此退却，双方再次陷入了激烈的较量，并进入了一轮决胜的抢七大战。在这一局中，西纳一度以3比0领跑，然而阿尔卡拉斯状态高涨，连得7分后夺得了冠军，历时3小时21分钟的激烈竞争落下帷幕。
“我非常高兴，在第三盘比赛中即使他再次破发并紧逼不舍，我也找到了继续战斗的契机，采取了积极打法。最终我非常开心能够获得胜利。”阿尔卡拉斯在一场全年最激动人心的对决后如是说。
这次胜利使他成为自2009年ATP500巡回赛推出以来首个在所有表面均夺冠的选手。与此同时，败给对手的西纳目前正处于一个不愉快的时期——远离了网球赛场。世界反兴奋剂机构(WADA)近期对国际体育仲裁法庭(CAS)提起上诉，原因是独立委员会判定他在2024年3月两次测试出禁药Clostebol并非过错，后者因此避免了禁赛处分。
至于西纳在8月份宣布的情况，尽管国际网球诚信机构(ITA)在8月通知其并未犯错而被测出含有Crostabol（一种类固醇）成分的药物，但目前他仍未受到赛事停赛的处罚。在今年3月份印第安维尔斯的比赛期间收集的两份样本之间相隔8天，测试结果显示出较低水平的药物含量。
在社交媒体上发布的一则声明中，西纳表示正对“通过物理治疗师提供的治疗方法偶然污染Crostabol”这一情况予以澄清，并对这一系列事件造成的误测表示认同。
新闻来源：www.cnn.com
原文地址：Carlos Alcaraz defeats world No. 1 Jannik Sinner in epic China Open final
新闻日期：2024-10-02
原文摘要：
The men’s final of this year’s China Open was billed as a battle between two titans and it definitely didn’t disappoint. After three grueling sets, Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz emerged victorious over world No. 1 Jannik Sinner, winning 6-7 6-4 7-6 to claim his 16th ATP Tour title. The pair produced some incredible rallies throughout the pulsating match, further underlining why they are arguably the two best players in the world right now. Despite now beating Sinner in all three of their games this season, world No. 3 Alacaraz was full of praise for the Italian. “It was a really close match,” the 21-year-old said after the win. “Jannik, once again, he showed that he’s the best player in the world, at least for me. The level that he’s playing, it’s unbelievable. It’s a really high quality of tennis. Of shots, physically, mentally, he’s a beast.” Both men shared all four grand slam titles this year – Sinner winning the Australian Open and US Open, while Alcaraz won Wimbledon and the French Open. But it was the latter who started the better of the two on Wednesday, racing into an early lead in the first set. Sinner, however, started to find his rhythm and survived three set points to edge a first-set tiebreak. The Italian, who had been on a 15-match winning streak, then continued to pile pressure on his opponent in the second set. Alcaraz survived multiple break points to stay in touching distance, eventually levelling the score to take the contest to a decider. ‘I’m really happy that I made it’ Alacaraz appeared to have the momentum in the third set, establishing a healthy 3-1 lead, but Sinner wouldn’t fade away and bit back again, forcing a deciding tiebreak which he initially led 3-0. But a pumped-up Alcaraz then won seven consecutive points to take the title after three hours and 21 minutes of action – the longest match in the history of the tournament. “I’m really happy that in the third set, even though he broke my serve again and we were really close, I gave myself the chance to keep going, playing aggressively and at the end I’m really happy that I made it,” Alcaraz said after one of the most exciting matches of the year. With the win, he becomes the first player to win ATP 500 titles on all three surfaces since the series was launched in 2009. For Sinner, the defeat comes during a challenging period away from the tennis court. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recently said it had lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after an independent tribunal found Sinner wasn’t at fault for twice testing positive for a banned substance in March 2024. The 23-year-old has so far avoided suspension from competition since the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced in August that he wasn’t at fault despite testing positive for Clostebol, an anabolic steroid. Two samples collected eight days apart at Indian Wells in March showed low levels of the drug. In a statement posted on social media in August, Sinner said the positive tests stemmed from “inadvertent contamination of Clostebol” through treatment from his physiotherapist.
