Jannik Sinner beat Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 with a relentless baseline recreation to win the U.S. Open males’s championship on Sunday, lower than three weeks after being exonerated in a doping case.
The No. 1-ranked Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy, received the second Grand Slam trophy of his nascent profession — the different was at the Australian Open in January — and prevented No. 12 Fritz from ending a serious title drought for American males that has lasted 21 years.
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Andy Roddick’s triumph at Flushing Meadows in 2003 was the final Slam title for a person from the United States. The final earlier than Fritz, a 26-year-old from California, to even contest a final at one in all the 4 largest tournaments in tennis additionally was Roddick, who misplaced to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009.
Sinner prolonged his present successful streak to 11 matches and improved to 55-5 with a tour-high six titles in 2024.
That features a 35-2 mark on onerous courts, the floor used at each the Australian Open and U.S. Open, and he’s the first man since Guillermo Vilas in 1977 to win his first two Grand Slam trophies in the identical season, one thing such greats as Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Federer by no means completed.
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Less than per week earlier than competitors started at Flushing Meadows, the world came upon that Sinner had examined constructive twice for anabolic steroids in March however was cleared as a result of his use was dominated unintentional — the banned substance entered his system by way of a therapeutic massage from a group member he later fired.
