Jannik Sinner of steel: triumph at Us Open, Fritz swept away
Jannik Sinner d'steel: triumph at Us Open, Fritz swept away
Jannik Sinner king of New York: the Italian tennis player won his second career Slam title by beating the U.S. Taylor Fritz in three sets in the Us Open final with scores of 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. Even the entire Arthur Ashe crowd lined up with the opponent did not restrain the athlete from San Candido, who has è imposed himself in one of the most important world stages confirming his status as world number one.
Sinner with this victory becomes the seventh tennis player in the Open Era to win in the same season both Grand Slam tournaments on concrete: before him only Mats Wilander, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Jimmy Connors, John Newcombe and Rod Laver. With this victory he è secured the position of world number one at the end of the year.
Jannik Sinner got off to a strong start: the Blue, dropping immediately into the match, got a break in the first game, suffered a counterbreak in the fourth but then extinguished the joy of the 25,000 at Arthur Ashe by snatching serve twice more in the seventh and ninth games, closing out the partial 6-3. In the second set, Fritz rose to serve and made things complicated for the San Candido tennis player, who placed forò the paw in the tenth game, taking the break and closing the set 6-4.
Fritz, spurred on by the warm American crowd, did everything he could to keep the final alive in the third set: a possible breakthrough came in the seventh game, when he managed to snatch serve from the Italian, making the fans explode. But Sinner è of ice, he doesn't flinch: in the 10th game he counter-breaks and freezes the crowd and Fritz, pulling back to 5-5. It's the coup de grace for the U.S., who can no longer get up and surrenders in the final 7-5. For Sinner, the party begins.
In the Open era, Roger Federer, Jimmy Connors and Pete Sampras are the record holders of victories at the Us Open, with five career titles won at the American Slam. Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are both at 4 wins: in particular, the Serb in addition to his four wins has played and lost five other finals. Federer è also the only tennis player in the Open era to have won the title five consecutive times at Flushing Meadows.
