Former world No 1 Andy Roddick has given his verdict on Carlos Alcaraz’s victory against Jannik Sinner in the 2025 Italian Open final.

Alcaraz secured his first Rome Masters title as he delivered a stellar performance to defeat Sinner 7-6(5), 6-1 in the championship match.

The world No 2 has won four consecutive matches against Sinner and holds a 7-4 head-to-head advantage over his Italian rival.

The 22-year-old Spanish star has now collected all three clay-court Masters 1000 titles, and he has strengthened his favourite status ahead of his French Open title defence.

Speaking on Tennis Channel, Roddick assessed that both Alcaraz and Sinner would be happy with their Italian Open campaigns.

The American said: “Yeah, listen at the beginning of the week, if you had said to Carlos, ‘Hey you’re gonna win this tournament, take out Sinner,’ that’s a 12 out of 10, right?”

“If you had told Sinner, ‘You’re actually gonna play great tennis, you’re gonna beat Casper Ruud 0 and 1, and then lose to Carlos,’ listen, he would’ve taken that 10 out of 10 times.

“So this is what needed to happen for both of them. It