Taking part in in his first Grand Slam ultimate, Jannik Sinner managed to climb out of the outlet of being two units all the way down to defeat Daniil Medvedev within the Australian Open and win the lads’s singles title on Sunday. Earlier than Sunday, no Italian had gained the lads’s singles title on the Australian Open.
After almost a decade, Sinner grew to become the primary Australian Open champion not named Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer in what was the primary males’s singles ultimate since 2005 to not characteristic any of the “Massive Three”.
Sinner was staring down the barrel after trailing 3-6, 3-6 within the males’s singles ultimate in opposition to the Russian. Nonetheless, the 22-year-old Sinner — who had ended Novak Djokovic’s domination of the event within the semi-final — got here again strongly to win the ultimate 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.
In accordance with The Associates Press, the third-seeded Medvedev set a file together with his fourth five-set match of the event and time on courtroom at a significant within the Open period, his 24 hours and 17 minutes surpassing Carlos Alcaraz’s 23:40 on the 2022 US Open. The 27-year-old Russian had spent 20 hours and 33 minutes on courtroom by means of six rounds. That was nearly six hours longer than Sinner took to succeed in the ultimate.
Sinner had solely dropped one set by means of six rounds — in his third-set tiebreaker in opposition to 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic — till his five-set comeback win on Sunday.
Whereas Sinner’s path to the ultimate had handed by means of Djokovic, Medvedev needed to survive three five-setters to succeed in his sixth Grand Slam ultimate.
Medvedev gained his first six matches in opposition to Sinner, however has now misplaced 4 straight.
(With inputs from AP)