After 15 days of fantastic Australian Open Tennis over the last 2-3 weeks, the first grand slam leg of 2025 has just been wrapped up now with the Jannik Sinner (Italy) v Alexander Zverev (Germany) men’s singles championship clash – and once again Sinner is our back-to-back champion in straight sets over Zverev.
First of all, he had a brilliant run at our backyard including another grand slam Final opportunity he couldn’t turn down when Novak Djokovic was unable to stretch his body with the distance following a competitive first set tiebreak the other day during the 1st semi-final.
Sure Zverev’s performance tonight wasn’t bad at his absolute best like that good start and restart here & there through each set over the best of three hours.
He simply lost his cool at times unfortunately when it comes to his long runs coupled with a fierce opponent he’s got right in front of him & looks like Sinner won that top package of the prize right there – which is the overall set lead not once, not even twice despite a competitive tiebreak in the second but three times was enough for Sinner to settle the score.
And congratulations to 23-year-old Sinner with his 2nd straight Australian Open men’s title as that Norman Brookes Challenge Cup trophy looks good on him.
Yes, there were doubts about his condition when he had some illness concerns over the past week but that didn’t distract him still and yet, Sinner continued to let his Tennis rise up to the challenge where he got the benefit of his serves while he didn’t hesitate getting the job done without having to throw his toys in the pram unlike Zverev. That is all we can see from the World No.1 seeded and ranked player who we know will go on to win a whole lot more grand slam championships to come – not just the Aussie & US Open but also other ones too.
That will have to be his next target when the 2nd grand slam arrives at the Roland Garros in Paris, France between late May to early June – something he hasn’t yet won before. And if he can win Wimbledon in July, then he could be the next one to win all four grand slams where Carlos Alcaraz failed & even Zverev with the German’s runner-up finish at the Roland Garros (also to Alcaraz) last year.
Time will tell from today’s version of Roger Federer in none other than Jannik Sinner.
All in all what a summer of sport we have seen for 2024-25 with the best of both sports – Test Cricket & Australian Open Tennis.
It goes from the Aussies regaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy off India over the best of five matches including their series finale victory to a mix of feel good moments on-court like Alex De Minaur finally made his first QF appearance on home soil, new names/underdogs being made there & also resurfaced too like Madison Keys’ breakthrough women’s triumph last night over Aryna Sabalenka, and Sinner unstoppable both physically & mentally with his Australian Open men’s title No.2.
Bring on more sport throughout 2025 & there’s always more Tennis with the Men’s Davis Cup yearly competition now back early for the Aussies next weekend in the opening round Qualifiers away from home in Stockholm v host match nation Sweden.
