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2025 Australian Open men’s singles final: Jannik Sinner still rising with his head up high following his 2nd championship win over Alexander Zverev in straight sets

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Today’s Tennis Match, Jannik Sinner goes from 2-0 down to now becoming the Australian Open winner on his first grand slam final match v Daniil Medvedev at RLA

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How good was that men’s singles final to wrap up a long 15 days of the 2024 Australian Open at Melbourne Park when we thought Daniil Medvedev (Russia) was just one set away in his 3rd attempt here after a great start with the 2-0 lead v Jannik Sinner (Italy). However, Sinner won back to deny him not just a straight sets attempt but he also brought himself up into a 5th set decider at 2-2 all before the Italian quickly nailed down the seasoned grand slam finalist that secured him his first grand slam trophy towards the end in his first grand slam final. The final score lasted nearly four hours at 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 & 6-3.

Commiserations to Medvedev with the loss yet again who had a brilliant early form to get himself ahead of the match & he thought this would be breakthrough at last to take home his 2nd grand slam trophy since the 2021 US Open as Novak Djokovic cannot defend his title after his unexpected semis loss the other day v Sinner. Despite some close executions to try and shut down Sinner in his tracks whilst leading, he unfortunately lost his way that led to the 4th and 5th sets being activated including the top spot before Medvedev eventually ran out of huff and puff where he had to settle 2nd best in the end to a young and energetic elite challenger right there in Sinner. He will be 28 soon next month but the Russian will need to move on now and improve his other grand slam records at the Roland Garros and Wimbledon later this year which isn’t the same and hopefully that would help him come back & go one better for the fourth possible finals attempt next time in 2025.

Meanwhile, Sinner is having the best form of his life after he came off a semi-final breakthrough at Wimbledon last year while he played a key role with Italy’s Davis Cup win a few months later as the team trophy wouldn’t have happened without his outstanding tennis IQ and physicality that would’ve gone to Serbia or Australia. Now he might have struggled earlier on despite a great start but his long-form game began to click in the third set at 0-2 and he too has got the set or two back from Medvedev, who was never close to Championship Point himself at all, before he overtook the Russian for the lead the first time & Sinner has unleashed so fast he too didn’t hesitate so much to pull off such an unbelievable comeback from behind to now standing on top of Melbourne Park with the Norman Brookes Memorial Cup. It’s his moment tonight and he too deserves that breakthrough as what’s next for him now? He will look to win more grand slams from here by leading the line in Tennis’s next generation of grand slam superstars ahead of Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz just like the 2020s Roger Federer v Rafa Nadal.

The 2024 Australian Open Tennis tournament is now over where we had an awesome 15 days rather than 14 days as well as long spell showdowns, some upset moments that changed the course of the draw and a few first time finalists that includes one first time winner now in the men’s draw named Jannik Sinner. And shout out to some of the Aussies who did so well on home soil such as Alex De Minaur (men’s singles 4th round), Storm Hunter (women’s singles 3rd round) and Matt Ebden (men’s doubles title win last night with Rohan Bopanna). There is plenty of Tennis to look forward throughout the year with the next grand slam of 2024 coming up at the Roland Garros in Paris, France that will begin on Sunday 26th May-9th June.

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