Jannik Sinners 2024 has been exceptional up to this point and it is not yet over. Today the young Italian champion has a great chance to win his second Major by winning the US Open, a tournament that fits very well with his style of play. The Australian Open 2024 champion will start clearly favored against American starTaylor Fritz, who will look for the feat counting on the support of the crowd in New York.
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The Italian ace has made an impressive leap in quality over the last year, improving his game and physical condition. The 23-year-old from San Candido has lost very few matches on the hard court in the last twelve months and his consistency is reflected in the ATP ranking. If he wins today at Flushing Meadows, Jannik will have a 3,000-point lead over number two in the world.
Sinner has already won the Australian Open this year and two Masters 1000 - Miami and Cincinnati - not forgetting the triumphs in Rotterdam and Halle. The doping case that concerned him did not affect much the level of the Italian ace, who was able to win many matches without expressing his best tennis.
Jannikhas a large margin over Fritz
The feeling is that the world number 1 has a large margin over Fritz, who has a similar style of play to his but is less complete. A win in New York would make Sinners 2024 even more exciting, as well as securing him the second Grand Slam title of his young career.
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An amazing season. Jannik Sinner has no intention of stopping and continues to dominate the stellar year with 53 wins and just 5 defeats in total. Eloquent the gap that the Italian ace, number one in the world, has accumulated in the ATP ranking on direct opponents: Alexander Zverev, second in the standings since Monday, is even far away almost 3500 points; even further behind Carlos Alcaraz, third. The Italian will have the chance to shield the record in view of the season finale with the final of the US Open, scheduled for Sunday 8th September against American ace Taylor Fritz.
At 23 years and 21 days, the native player from San Candido has passed a milestone belonging to Roger Federer: since the Australian Open were played on concrete, The Italian man has now become the youngest tennis player to have reached the final of the mens singles in both Melbourne and New York in a calendar year. The Swiss champion succeeded in 2004 but at 23 years and 34 days.
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On the hard court, Sinner really made a difference in this year: 36 wins and 2 stops, at Indian Wells against Carlos Alcaraz (points then removed for the positivity found at Clostebol) and in Montreal in the match with Andrey Rublev in which he was not in the best physical condition. With these statistics, Sinner will be one of the most expected in the upcoming appointments in China and indoor.
The feud with Kyrgios continues
In a few hours Jannik will be engaged in the final of the US Open against the American tennis player Taylor Fritz, new number 7 in the world. The Italian is looking for his second career Slam and reaction after a little moment of difficulty in a year still spectacular. The matter of doping continues to arouse controversy and one of the worst haters in this affair is the Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios, now stopped for over a year with continuity and engaged here in New York as a commentator of ESPN.
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Nick is very active on social media but he took this issue in an exaggerated way and this time he made it big by unleashing a social storm. A user posted the photo of the tennis player with Anna Kalinskaya, Sinners current girlfriend and former tennis players partner, and Nick went down commenting with "Second serve" referring to Kalinskaya was with him and now is with Sinner. A shameful and s*xist tweet that has unleashed social users and many have even called for the dismissal of ESPN. Not an easy time for Kyrgios, under accusation for his crusade against the World No.1 and now again in the storm.
The Australian tennis player left Kalinskaya in a terrible way a few years ago and the Russian even called him an evil person. A gesture that Nick had much excitement during the social era but from which absolutely all of us dissociate and a small controversy a few hours before the final of the US Open. Among the many things there is curiosity whether or not it will be Kyrgios to interview the winner.
