Jannik Sinner is still dressed as a superhero. He finished last season leading his team to win the second Davis Cup for Italy. He began the 2024 season as the first tennis player from his country to win the Australian Open.
He is not just any champion. At 22 years old, world No. 4, he seemed destined for a Grand Slam title since he hung up his skis as a child and decided to become the best with a racket. It’s about time. He has it, and is making a valiant comeback.
The work of the sinner, with the flavor of Rafa Nadal. In that last 2022 where the Spaniard seemed destined for a defeat where he rebelled. Transalpine didn’t give up either. As a victim, again, the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who suffered another cruel defeat.
The sinner won 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 and 6-3 in 3h.44′. An exercise in resilience from a man who ousted Novak Djokovic in the semifinals, this crown gives him a good warning for the future. As well as Carlos Alcaraz, his generational enemy par excellence.
This Sinner stood up to discuss everything, tournaments and rankings, with his most famous and advanced opponents. It goes through stages quickly, when it matures in all aspects. He found peace in a new team with coaches Simone Vagnozzi and Darren Cahill.
Italy has succeeded Nicola Pietrangeli (1959-1960) and Adriano Panatta (1976), who reigned at Roland Garros, as Francesca Schiavone in 2010. Flavia Pennetta took the 2015 US Open trophy.
Jannik Sinner hit a majestic parallel forehand that closed the battle with Daniil Medvedev, ending the display of the biggest destruction accumulated in recent days. The Russian’s 20h.33′ compared to the Italian’s 14h.44′ was reflected as the transalpine fell for 6-4 in the third set. He confirmed his improvement at the end of the second, taking command. When three hours into the big match there was a decisive fifth, the Muscovite had no fuel left.
The sinner began handcuffed by the tension of his debut in a Grand Slam final and the ambush made by a massive Medvedev. A wall as usual, but gives his tennis an aggressiveness that is only saved for the big moments. The trap almost worked for the Russian, who played a perfect match for an hour and a half.
Many would have been melted by the overwhelming power of the enemy. Not Sinner, pushed from the box, strengthened by the Davis Cup. Little by little he discovered himself. He added a more protective physique to his best version. And he holds a victory that promises more.
The Australian Open had its first champion not from the Big 3 (Djokovic, Federer, Nadal) since Swiss Stan Wawrinka in 2014. The sinner lifted the cup and earned 3,150,000 Australian dollars, or 1.9 million euros.
Source: La Verdad
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