Italy’s Jannik Sinner poses with the Norman Brookes Problem Cup in the course of the official presentation after the Males’s Singles Closing match in opposition to Daniil Medvedev in the course of the 2024 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 28, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia.
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Jannik Sinner rallied from two units all the way down to take the Australian Open closing from Daniil Medvedev 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday and clinch his first Grand Slam title.
The 22-year-old Sinner was taking part in in a significant closing for the primary time and bought there by ending Novak Djokovic’s lengthy domination of the match in a semifinal upset.
He’s the primary Italian to win the Australian Open title.
For 2021 U.S. Open champion Medvedev, the loss was his fifth in six main finals. The third-seeded Medvedev set a report along with his fourth five-set match of the match and time on courtroom at a significant within the Open period, surpassing Carlos Alcaraz’s 23:40 on the 2022 U.S. Open.
Medvedev misplaced back-to-back finals right here to Djokovic in 2021 and to Rafael Nadal — after holding a two-set lead — the next yr. He received three five-set matches to succeed in the championship match this time and had two comebacks from two units down. Sinner solely dropped one set by six rounds — in a third-set tiebreaker in opposition to Djokovic — till his five-set comeback win on Sunday.
