![]() ![]() Given that Sinner had personally dethroned Djokovic during Friday’s thrilling semi-final – the serial champions first defeat here since 2018 – it felt fitting that he should lift the trophy, and thus succeed the king of Rod Laver Arena. Sinner’s heroic 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 victory made him the first man born after 1987 to win the Australian Open, thus ending a long sequence of Melbourne titles claimed by the golden generation of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Unlike the men who grew up in the shadow of the “big three” – and thus accumulated a thick layer of scar tissue – these early 20-somethings bring a sense of freshness and fearlessness to the court. The new era of tennis has begun in earnest, after Jannik Sinner came back from a two-set deficit to defeat Daniil Medvedev in Melbourne.Īlong with the reigning Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz, Sinner represents a young generation with a real “wow” factor.
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