Jannik Sinner wins Australian Open, claims first main title

MELBOURNE, Australia — Jannik Sinner rallied from two units all the way down to take the Australian Open remaining from Daniil Medvedev 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday and clinch his first Grand Slam title.

Sinner, 22, was enjoying in a significant remaining for the primary time and received there by ending Novak Djokovic’s lengthy domination of the event in a semifinal upset.

He is the primary Italian to win the Australian Open title.

For 2021 US Open champion Medvedev, the loss was his fifth in six main finals. The third-seeded Medvedev set a document along with his fourth five-set match of the event and time on courtroom at a significant within the Open period, surpassing Carlos Alcaraz’s 23:40 on the 2022 US 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 gained 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 way of six rounds — in a third-set tiebreaker towards Djokovic — till his five-set comeback win on Sunday.