Jannik Sinner celebrates after winning US Open and second Grand Slam title by beating Taylor Fritz in straight sets
Italy’s Jannik Sinner defeated America’s Taylor Fritz to win the 2024 US Open men’s title.
The ‘Fox’ as Sinner is popular called claimed his first US Open title after overcoming Fritz at the Flushing Meadows in New York on Sunday evening.
Sinner, who dominated the game from the onset, easily won in three straight sets of 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 to claim his second Grand Slam.
A nervy Fritz began the match with a double fault, but the world no. 1 stepped confidently forward with a dominating rally, forcing the American to hit long in the game.
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Sinner became the first Italian man to win a US Open title.
He also became the third man in the Open Era to win his first two major titles in the same calendar year — his first was in January in Australia.
The other two are Jimmy Connors, who won the Aussie Open, Wimbledon and the US Open in 1974, and Guillermo Vilas, who won the French and US Open in 1977.
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The 23-year-old also became just the fourth man to win the Australian Open and US Open on hard courts in the same season — after Mats Wilander, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
Sinner has now edged the American 2-1 in their career meetings so far.
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