Jannik Sinner has been, since Sunday, September 8, the king of tennis in New York, as well as the dominator of the circuit in all its settings. The formidable Italian tennis player beat Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 in the final of the US Open 2024 and won his second Grand Slam title, the first at Flushing Meadows, demonstrating that his mentality is a bomb test. Just a few weeks after his positive test and all the controversy that resulted, Sinner was able to reach his best version in a tournament full of surprises and against Fritz, despite the public against him and the pressure from his On the other hand, he confirmed the predictions and won a title that elevates him to a new sphere of tennis.
The year 2024 bears the mark of Jannik Sinner as the king of world tennis, on the men’s circuit. The strength of Carlos Alcaraz during a dream summer in which he managed to win Roland Garros and Wimbledon consecutively, is matched in terms of Grand Slam tournaments by the Italian tennis player, who, after his January conquest at the Australian Open, now adds his first US Open, which almost certainly confirms him as world number one by the end of the season and adds him to the very limited list of men who have achieved a double in the year they won for the first time. a big
Taylor Fritz was given the great opportunity of a lifetime, in his first Grand Slam final, on home soil, in a year in which he reached the second week of the previous three majors. The US Open was eagerly awaiting its first local men’s champion since 2003, when Andy Roddick beat Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final, but the return of the American dream would have to wait, as Sinner proved head and shoulders above Fritz in both championships, both in tennis and especially in mental terms, and ended up defeating him in three sets (6-3, 6-4, 7-5) and two and a quarter hours of duel.
