Janic Sinner defeated Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 with a relentless baseline game to advance to the U.S. Open on Sunday. Won the Open Men’s Championship less than three weeks later Exemption in doping cases.
No. 1-ranked Sinner, 23, from Italy, won the second Grand Slam trophy of his fledgling career – the other was at the Australian Open in January – and prevented No. 12 Fritz from ending a major title drought for American men that spans 21 years.
Andy Roddick’s victory at Flushing Meadows in 2003 was the last Slam title for a United States man. Before the 26-year-old Fritz from California, Roddick was the only finalist at one of tennis’ four biggest tournaments, losing to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009.
Sinner extended his current winning streak to 11 matches and improved to 55-5 in 2024 with a tour-high six titles. Including a 35-2 mark on hard courts, the surface used at both the Australian Open and the US Open, he became the first man since Guillermo Villas in 1977 to win his first two Grand Slam trophies in the same season, surpassing greats Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Federer. The players never accomplished that.
Less than a week before the start of the competition at Flushing Meadows, the world learned that Sinner had twice tested positive for anabolic steroids in March but had been cleared because they had been used inadvertently – a banned substance massaged by a team member. had entered his system by The latter opened fire.
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