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Nike is proud to announce THE RIVALRY RETURNS, a limited campaign celebrating the reunion of two of tennis’s most iconic competitors at the 2038 US Open.
Carlos Alcaraz, returning to Grand Slam competition after injury, and Jannik Sinner, set to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, will appear together in New York for the first time in over nine years.
"The Alcaraz-Sinner rivalry shaped a decade of tennis,” said [REDACTED], Nike VP of Global Sports Marketing. ”Bringing them back together in New York—where it all started for so many fans—felt like the only way to honor what they built.”
In which the ATP thinks they’re selling nostalgia. Nike thinks they’re manufacturing a little rivalry-era PR. The internet thinks they hate each other. They’re all missing one fairly significant detail.
OR: ambition, glory, tennis, and the terrible inconvenience of being in love with your star-crossed rival-turned-(not-so-ex)-husband forever, told across twelve years