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Ruthless Sinner downs Zverev to retain Australian Open title

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Jannik Sinner of Italy wins the men's singles title at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2025. /VCG
Jannik Sinner of Italy wins the men's singles title at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2025. /VCG

Jannik Sinner of Italy wins the men's singles title at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2025. /VCG

Jannik Sinner retained his Australian Open title with an emphatic 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-3 win over Alexander Zverev on Sunday, breaking new ground for Italian tennis and leaving his German rival smarting after a third Grand Slam final defeat.

The world No. 1 became Italy's first player to win three Grand Slam crowns, moving past Nicola Pietrangeli who won back-to-back men's titles at Roland Garros in 1959-60.

A year after mowing down Daniil Medvedev in five sets for his first major trophy, Sinner sapped his second Melbourne Park final of all drama as he wore down Zverev with suffocating pressure and claimed the match with clinical execution.

The one-sided win in the floodlit Rod Laver Arena underlined the 23-year-old's status as the game's pre-eminent hardcourt player, if robbing fans of a proper contest.

"It was an amazing performance from my side," he said. "I want to enjoy this one. This one has a different feeling (and) means so much to me."

The victory extended the U.S. Open champion's winning streak to 21 matches.

"Many, many things happen off the court, what you maybe don't know," he said. "When I go on the court, even if sometimes it's very difficult to block these kind of things, I have the team and people who are close to me who trust me."

For Zverev, the result was another bitter blow, his third defeat in three Grand Slam finals leaving him in tears.

His miserable night was compounded by a heckler in the crowd who made reference to domestic violence allegations he faced in recent years.

"First of all, it sucks standing here next to this thing and not being able to touch it," the red-eyed German said of the winner's Norman Brookes Challenge Cup. "Congrats to Jannik, you're the best player in the world by far. I was hoping that I could be more of a competitor today but you're too good. I don't know if I'll ever be able to lift the trophy but I'll keep coming back, I'll keep trying."

In the women's doubles final, top seeds Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic and Taylor Townsend of the U.S. beat Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Hsieh Su-wei of Chinese Taipei 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-3 to win the title.

Source(s): Reuters
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