Top-ranked Jannik Sinner defeated American Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday to win his first US Open and second Grand Slam championship this year.
Sinner improved to 35-2 on hard courts in 2024 with five titles, including the Australian Open in January. His run to the championship in New York came against the backdrop of the news last month that he had been exonerated in a doping case after testing positive for an anabolic steroid twice in March.
Sinner is the fourth different man to win both the Australian Open and US Open in the same year since 1988, when the Australian major transitioned from grass to hard court.
With Aryna Sabalenka having swept both the Australian Open and US Open, too, it's the first time that the same man and the same woman won both hard-court majors in the same year since 1988 (Mats Wilander and Steffi Graf did so that year).
The 12th-seeded Fritz, a 26-year-old Californian, was bidding to become the first American man since Andy Roddick in 2003 to win a Grand Slam singles title. Fritz reached his first major final by outlasting fellow American Frances Tiafoe in five sets on Friday, making him the first man from the United States to play for a Grand Slam title since Roddick lost to Roger Federer in 2009 at Wimbledon.
Sinner broke Fritz's serve three times in the 41-minute opening set, winning 15 of the set's last 19 points, then broke again to close out the second set. They traded breaks in the third set before Sinner got another late to claim the title. Fritz had been broken only nine times in his first six matches at Flushing Meadows.
The match was played under a sunny sky at Arthur Ashe Stadium on a 70-degree day.
ESPN Stats & Information and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
