Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev Set to Clash for the 2025 Vienna Open Title

The 2025 Vienna Open brings a blockbuster showdown as top seed Jannik Sinner faces second seed Alexander Zverev in the final.

A final at the ATP 500 level featuring two of the world’s top three players is a rare treat, promising a packed crowd and an electric atmosphere as both stars battle for the title. Here is your complete match guide.

Head-to-Head Record

Despite Sinner winning both of their most recent matches, including a dominant victory in the Australian Open final earlier this year, it is still Zverev who leads the head-to-head 4–3. Though it is important to note that all of Zverev’s wins came before Sinner’s rise to elite status in late 2023.

Zverev leads their hard-court head-to-head 3-2 and also won their only indoor meeting in 2020. Despite that, Sinner enters the final as a strong favorite as he remains the best hard-court player in the world, even after his loss in the US Open final six weeks ago.

Road to the Final

Sinner has been at his absolute efficient best so far this tournament, not dropping a single set and only getting broken twice, both in the semifinals against Alex de Minaur. It is not to say he has had this dominant run because of a lighter draw, as he has beaten a host of top-25 players this tournament, including the Aussie mentioned above, Alexander Bublik, and compatriot Flavio Cobolli.

After a first-round hiccup against Jacob Fearnley, in which he was a poor tiebreak away from losing the match, Zverev has also played arguably some of his best tennis of the season to make the final. Although he did get lucky as his quarterfinal opponent, Tallon Griekspoor, had to withdraw from their match, his performance in the semifinals against Lorenzo Musetti, someone he had struggled against recently up to that point, was one of his matches of the season, playing highly effective indoor-court tennis on the back of his excellent serve.

Where to Watch

Fans in the United States can watch the match on the Tennis Channel, while viewers around the world can stream the match live or on demand via the Tennis TV app and website.

The final begins at 3:00 p.m. local time (CET) in Austria, which is 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET).

Match Preview

As mentioned above, most of this duo’s matches came before the Italian reached his current level, so analyzing what to expect in this final relies heavily on their last two meetings, especially the Australian Open final earlier this year, which Sinner won in straight sets.

Just like in that final, Sinner’s road to victory is to stand firm in the middle of the baseline, stay comfortable in forehand-to-forehand exchanges, and use his inside-out and down-the-line forehand to attack the open court whenever given the opportunity. Those patterns, coupled with his advantages in the serve-return dynamic in this matchup, despite Zverev’s big serve, should be enough to give him another victory, as they did in Melbourne.