The subsequent technology of tennis stars has arrived.
22-year-old Jannik Sinner turned the primary first-time grand slam winner since Carlos Alcaraz on the 2022 U.S. Open along with his five-set win over Daniil Medvedev within the Australian Open closing.
Sinner erased a 2-0 set deficit on his method to victory, profitable the match 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. As ESPN famous on social media, it marked the second time Medvedev blew such a lead at a serious closing, changing into the primary participant to take action within the Open Period (1968-present).
The victory for Sinner is the primary time since 2014 {that a} participant apart from Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal received the Australian Open.
That trio has had a stranglehold on the game for 20 years, starting with Federer’s domination within the early 2000s and Nadal and Djokovic rapidly becoming a member of him.
It has been uncommon for a participant apart from a kind of three to win a grand slam over the past decade-plus, and most first-time winners have come on the U.S. Open.
Since 2000, Thomas Johannson (2002), Djokovic (2008) and Stan Wawrinka (2014) are the one different gamers to have their first main come on the Australian Open.
In that very same span, the U.S. Open has 9 first-time grand slam winners, together with Alcaraz. After Sinner’s match, he congratulated his peer.
The 2 are poised to be the faces of males’s tennis for years to return, carrying the torch lit by the giants that preceded them.
