Jannick Sinner jubilates absolutely legitimately with his first ATP Finals title. In front of his home crowd in Turin, the world No. 1 defeated Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 for his debut trophy in the last-eight competition.
Sinner and Fritz met again after playing in the group stage, and there the result was the same - success for the Italian 6-4, 6-4. And today, Fritz, who in the semifinals broke Alexander Zverev after a tiebreak in the third set, did not play badly, but simply could not oppose the perfect tournament Siner played. The 23-year-old tennis player performed extremely solidly on his own serve, breaking the American's serve once in both sets. Sinner finished with 14 aces, no double faults and fended off Fritz's only break point, which came in the tenth game of the first set.
Thus, the first racket in the world won the title in Turin without losing a set, and after his five consecutive victories, he will leave with a check for 4,881,100 dollars and as many as 1,500 ranking points. Sinner won his fourth of five matches with Fritz, having beaten him earlier in the US Open final. For the young Italian, this is the eighth trophy of the year - two from the Grand Slam in Melbourne and New York, three from the Masters 1000 in Miami, Cincinnati and Shanghai and two from the category 500 - Rotterdam and Halle, to the triumph in the ATP Finals.
Fritz, for his part, played a strong tournament, defeating Daniil Medvedev and Alex de Minor in the groups before recording a fourth successive success over Zverev in the last four. That year he won the titles at Delray Beach and Eastbourne. | BGNES
