There gained’t be an American winner in singles competitors on the 2024 US Open. Residence favourite Taylor Fritz made all of it the way in which to the ultimate, however he ran up in opposition to high seed Jannik Sinner and in the end fell to the Italian on Sunday. Sinner gained the match in straight units, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
Sinner’s victory over Fritz, the twelfth seed, took three units and means Andy Roddick stays the final American man to win the match. Roddick gained the US Open in 2003, and was the final American man to make a Grand Slam ultimate (Wimbledon, 2009) earlier than Fritz bested his countryman Frances Tiafoe within the semifinals.
However Sinner didn’t enable Fritz to get additional than that, securing his second ever Grand Slam championship general and this yr. Sinner had fewer unforced errors (21 vs. 34), gained 88 % of his first serves, and transformed on six of his 12 break makes an attempt. He was sharper and cleaner than Fritz all through the match and took him down in straight units.
Sinner earned his first Grand Slam title at the start of this season when he defeated Daniil Medvedev within the ultimate of the Australian Open. The 23-year-old Italian holds the No. 1 rating on the planet, although that is his first ultimate since Australia, as he made it so far as the semifinal at Roland Garros and the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
It’s been an actual tough couple of months for Sinner off the court docket, beginning with lacking the Paris Olympics with tonsillitis. He additionally obtained an anti-doping sanction from the ITIA for testing constructive for Clostebol, a banned anabolic steroid. He was in the end cleared from wrongdoing, however individuals have been speaking extra about that and fewer about his play going into the US Open.
In his semifinal matchup, Sinner took down Jack Draper of England, the No. 25 seed for the match. Sinner needed to get a wrist damage labored on throughout that match, however he in the end got here out on high in straight units, 7-5, 7-6(3), 6-2. His run to the ultimate additionally included wins over No. 14 Tommy Paul within the fourth spherical and the fifth-seeded Medvedev within the quarterfinals.
Fritz, 26, has been the highest American males’s tennis participant for the previous few years, however he’s struggled to interrupt by means of. He’s been in a really related place as his pal and semifinal opponent, Frances Tiafoe. The 2 People went a full 5 units of their semifinal match, with Fritz in the end incomes the victory, 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Along with making the ultimate right here, Fritz has made it to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and Wimbledon, with a fourth-round end on the French Open — all this season.
Getting thus far has been robust for Fritz, the twelfth seed. He bumped into the eighth-seeded Casper Ruud within the fourth spherical, and was pushed to 4 units earlier than getting a win. It solely acquired tougher from there although, because the fourth-seeded Alexander Zverev was his subsequent opponent within the quarterfinals. Fritz took him down, additionally in 4 units, earlier than his match in opposition to Tiafoe, the twentieth seed.