Melbourne, Australia – there was an atmosphere of surrounding confidence Yannik Sinner While leaving the Rod Lafer Stadium to attend the Australian Open final on Sunday against a familiar opponent Alexander Zverev. He stood tall. His head is raised. He walked quietly but with a goal, and it seems that he has the confidence of the man who already knows how the two hours and the next quarter will develop.
From the moment Senner arrived in Melbourne a little more than two weeks ago, it seemed almost inevitable to defend his title. This calm, calm and emotional behavior was clear throughout the tournament, as he overcame his competitors with a relatively easily, and showed his amazing skills, sporting spirit and hunger that led him to ascend to the top of the world rankings of professional tennis players in June last year. .
Senner ended the Australian Open Championship in the same way that he started, as it fired the ball directly through the defenses of the helpless opponent. Sinner split a way bypass zVREV to Winning 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 And successive victories in Melbourne Park.
“It was an amazing performance on my side. Very high quality,” Sinner said after raising his third big title. “[As the favourite] You may have a little extra pressure and attention on your part, which you have to deal with. But you know that you can do this because you did it once. I am very happy. “
Senner has not lost any time to confirm his authority in the title match on Sunday. At the first point, he hit a overwhelming blow directly under the letter “T”. 15-0. At the next moment, another one in the middle of the transmission area barely paid his strike on it. 30-0. Then change, wide transmission, but leads to the exact same result. 40-0. Zverev will get the fourth transmission that he faced again in playing, just to hit Sinar, a non -back -back rear kick at the bottom of the line. Game, sinner. In 90 seconds, he sent the most dangerous warnings to the second best tennis player on the planet.
And as he did on his way to the final, against Zverev, Sinner showed his ability to play as a wall of human bricks, as he sent everything across the network with a precise video similar to video games and error -free discipline. Among all the players who reached the second week of the tournament, no one made easy mistakes at a rate less than Senner. In the final, he scored 27 goals, or nearly half of Zverev’s balance.
Senner has perfectly passed the patience and aggression line, as he knew when to retreat in the defense and then when the bet was raised with his strong strikes. He mastered changing his style, such as a great Passpool player, as he switched between paying that deep and flat blow on the grid into a twisted front blow, decorated with an upper rotation movement that started outside the field. Regardless of the shot, Senner routinely targeted the front of the front of the front, its weakest wing, forcing him to play a match he did not want to play. The longer the period of the marches, the greater the preference of Sinner, who got 67% of the points that included at least nine shots.
At the few pressure points faced by the sinner, he also raised to meet the moment. After delaying 5-4 and 30-0 in Group Two, Sinar made three first-to-rescissible transmission strikes to get out of the problems. Fifteen minutes later, he kept his nerves to win the sixteenth interpower from his last 18 games. But the most intelligent statistics of the match are that Senner has not faced any point of breaking the transmission. It was this uncompromising tennis that continued to crush and frustrate Zverev until the second seed in the world appeared defeated for the first time, then defeated.
“I entered the stadium, trying to be very aggressive at first, and this gave me confidence that I felt the ball in a certain way,” said Sinar. “that it [about] I always try to stay there mentally, and I try to play every point in the best possible way. The way I dealt with every situation on the field, not only today in the final but in general, was nice. “
Sinner has done much more than just winning his third main title on Sunday evening. His victory over Zverev crowned two other brilliant weeks for the Italian player at the Great Slam Theater and strengthened his position as a giant in the modern era on solid stadiums. He also stressed that tennis has moved strongly to the surface.
“He is the best player on solid stadiums at the present time. It is simply,” said Zverev, after losing his third major championship final. “It is completely outperformed. I was hoping to be a more competitor today, but you are very good. It is simply. No one deserves this cup more than him.”
There will be someone who argues that this sport will live in Novak Djokovic Until the day the main hero has decided 24 times to retire the striker, but it has become clear that Senner has now left the Serbian star behind him and quickly headed to be unparalleled on solid stadiums.
Since Djokovic won the last time in one of the Grand Slam, the US Open Championship for the year 2023, Sinner defeated him in all three matches and put a CV that would compete with many in the tennis Hall. He won the Australian Open twice, won the United States Open, won the Federation of Professional Tennis Federation, raised more victories than anyone else in the round, won more than $ 20 million in award funds, and kept the first ranking globally for 33 weeks. He is only 23 years old.
Sinner’s last title in Australia made it the fifth player in the history of tennis to win three consecutive major championships on solid stadiums, to join Djokovic. Roger FedererIvan Lindel and John McKenro. He won 19 titles at the level of professional rounds, 17 of which came on solid stadiums. He only lost three games on solid stadiums in the past 14 months.
Some will feel that it is appropriate for Sinar to kidnap the flame from Djokovic, due to the presence of many similarities in the style between the two. Like a lot Madison Keys with Arena Sabalinka 24 hours ago, Senner was “looking forward” and did his best to simulate many Djokovic’s worldly talents that led the 37 -year -old to a record with 10 titles in Melbourne Park, and among the greatest biography of tennis ever.
“He does everything better,” said Zverev about Sinner. “He is moving better than me. He strikes his front hitting better than me. It is very difficult to win a point from behind the stadium against them, they do not give you any space, the facts talk about themselves in a different world now about anyone else. “
Like Djokovic, Senner has never allowed anyone to settle. No one has never been allowed to control, and no one has never been allowed to dream realisticly that he could be the person to be toppled. It was as if he knew that the only person on this planet was able to prevent him from raising the Norman Brooks Challenge Cup for the second time in 13 months.
The question that Senner is now looking forward to continuing to build his legacy is whether he can translate his success on solid stadiums into other tennis courts.
Senner has not yet reached the final match in the French Open or Wimbledon, which frankly, due to his skill in other major championships in this sport, appears to be an anomaly that is estimated to change sooner, not later. A game of play is completely suitable for solid stadiums, but there is no reason that prevents him from enjoying the success of sandy or grassy stadiums or both.
“It is definitely something I always think of,” Sinner said when asked if he had to succeed away from the major championships in hard stadiums. “Of course, I feel more comfortable on solid stadiums. I think we can see it. But I consider it positive because I still have to improve other stadiums.
“I will do a lot of energy in it, and I try to find the right ways. I am still young and I think I have time to adapt. This is exactly what I love, the difficulties I try to understand where I can improve.” I hope I can show it. You have to be a complete player.
