Carlos Alcaraz has been revealed as the tennis superstar who is dating Sports Illustrated model Brooks Nader – after she denied talk of a romance with his on-court rival Jannik Sinner.
Nader’s sister Grace Ann confirmed to E! News that love could well be in the air between her sibling, 28, and the Spanish athlete, 22, who got the better of Sinner in Sunday’s US Open final.
In recent months Alcaraz has been linked romantically to British tennis star Emma Raducanu, also 22, with their partnership in last month’s US Open mixed doubles tournament fueling those rumors even further.
Yet according to Grace Ann, the newly-crowned US Open champion currently has eyes for Brooks.
‘The rumors are true,’ she said when quizzed about her sister and Carlos at Raising Cane’s New York Fashion Week Show on Wednesday. ‘Dating is such a loose term. But I do know he’s the man of the hour.’
While Alcaraz is said to have already met Nader’s other sisters Mary Holland and Sarah Jane, Grace Ann says she is yet to have the pleasure.
Carlos Alcaraz has been revealed as the tennis superstar who is dating model Brooks Nader
Nader’s sister Grace (left) confirmed that love could be in the air between Brooks and Carlos
Alcaraz has been linked romantically to British tennis star Emma Raducanu in recent months
‘I’m dying to,’ she added about meeting the six-time Grand Slam winner and new world No 1. ‘Such a cutie.’
Brooks dropped a huge hint that she was dating a tennis star last week during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, after she was spotted watching a match at the US Open.
Grace Ann sparked speculation that Sinner was the player in question after claiming an athlete whose name ‘rhymes with winner’ had DM’d her sister days before she was pictured at the New York tournament.
Kimmel showed Nader a picture of her in the stands alongside Stephen Colbert, before asking outright if she is dating Sinner.
‘Is this like, an interrogation?’ Nader said, after Kimmel joked she is ‘under oath’. ‘I’m so scared right now! Oh my god.
‘Ask Stephen what match we were at. I don’t think he was playing in that one. You’re close, you’re warm.’
Kimmel responded: ‘Oh, I see. So it’s somebody else?’
Nader (right) watched Alcaraz at the US Open last month next to Stephen Colbert and his wife
Nader didn’t confirm or deny that she is dating a different player. She simply responded once again: ‘You’re warm but we weren’t at that match.’
As it turned out, the model was watching Alcaraz on day eight of the US Open.
Nader is single after her breakup with Gleb Savchenko in April this year. The pair met on the show Dancing with the Stars.
Sinner, meanwhile, is also single after his split earlier this year from the Russian tennis player Anna Kalinskaya.
