After completing runner-up to Carlos Alcaraz at last year’s French Open and having been beaten by Dominic Thiem in the 2020 US Open, for Zverev, the wait for a maiden Grand Slam title will go on.
With an emphatic 6-3 7-6(4) 6-3 win over Alexander Zverev on Sunday, Melbourne’s Jannik Sinner kept his Australian Open title, breaking new ground for Italian tennis and departing from his German rival smarting after a third Grand Slam final beat.
After winning three Grand Slam crowns, world number one Sinner become Italy’s first player to achieve this achievement.He has moving past Nicola Pietrangeli, who won back-to-back men’s titles at Roland Garros in 1959-60.
After one year mowing down Daniil Medvedev in five sets for his first major trophy, Sinner broken his second Melbourne Park final of all drama by applying suffocating pressure and clinical implementation.
At Rod Laver Arena under the lights, he taken captive the decisive break in the sixth game when Zverev impelled a forehand long.
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Possibly, the German’s soul had already been smashed by an unlucky net cord that turned the second-set tiebreak in Sinner’s favour.
Zverev gave up match point with a forehand that fell well wide of the line before Jannik Sinner secured the win with a backhand passing shot.
Sinner lifted his arms in triumph and climbed into the terraces to embrace his entourage.
After completing runner-up to Carlos Alcaraz at last year’s French open and having been beaten by Dominic Thiem in the 2020 US Open, for Zverev, the stand by for a maiden Grand Slam title will go on.
