India, Sept. 8 -- Carlos Alcaraz brought up a bad tennis thing after displaying his best show in a Grand Slam final -- that the sport and its ever-running calendar, at times, makes it difficult "to realise that I won the tournament, to enjoy".

And so, Alcaraz wants to take a moment.

"To see the trophy, to see what you've done in the tournament, to appreciate that," he said.

He could appreciate what he came up with in the first five games of his 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 US Open final victory against Jannik Sinner: a heady mixture of a slice and drop forehand winner, a retro serve and volley, a delectable drop shot, a backhand half volley lifted from his ankles that slumped across the net. So dazzling was his start and all-court craft that it ...