US Open: Uncompromising Jannik Sinner wins his second Grand Slam tournament by beating Taylor Fritz in the final

Sinner a été encore trop fort, dimanche soir. MAXPPP – COREY SIPKIN

World No. 1 Jannik Sinner won the US Open final against American Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday, September 8, to win his second Grand Slam tournament after his success at the Australian Open last January.

Relentless, Sinner (23 years old) won in 2 hours and 16 minutes of play, to win a second Grand Slam title after the Australian Open in January. Like Aryna Sabalenka in the women's category, he has won both hard-court Majors of the season (he is the youngest player to achieve this).

And confirmed his stranglehold on world tennis, while Carlos Alcaraz, winner of Roland-Garros and Wimbledon, was eliminated in the second round of the tournament, and Novak Djokovic in the third.

Sinner had started the US Open with controversy after the revelation of his whitewashing by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after two positive tests in March, with several players denouncing the opacity of the process and the feeling of a two-speed anti-doping justice system according to their status.

An audience of stars

In an Arthur Ashe stadium studded with stars, including pop queen Taylor Swift and fellow American football star Travis Kelce, Sinner extinguished Fritz's dream of becoming the first American to lift a major men's trophy since Andy Roddick in 2003.

The Italian set the tone by seizing the opponent's serve in the first game. Then broken, he concluded the first set on another break point at 5-3, taking advantage of insufficient quality in Fritz's serve (38% first serves, 12 unforced errors).

Sinner, a master of the exchange, repeated the feat in the second set by jumping on his first break point at 5-4, while the American had raised the bar (78% first serves, 7 faults).

A stunning third set

The world No. 1, very clean (21 unforced errors in all), impassively erased three consecutive break points from the first game of the third set. However, he was broken (4-3), allowing Fritz and the stadium to get excited for a few minutes.

Before coming back, showing himself to be too solid, not to give up a set to his opponent. Sinner became the first world No. 1 to win at Flushing Meadows in the men's category since Rafael Nadal in 2017, and the first Italian to lift the trophy in New York.