The U.S. tennis fans will have to wait a bit longer to see an American win the US Open after Taylor Fritz failed to overcome the world’s No. 1 Jannik Sinner on Sunday in the finals of the 2024 edition of the tournament.
Sinner, looking for his second Grand Slam title, entered the match as a prohibited favorite and didn’t take long to show why. While Fritz took a 3-2 lead in the first set, Sinner quickly made tactical adjustments to turn things in his favor. The Italian went on to win the next four games and take the first set.
While Fritz occasionally showed signs of life that fired up the crowd, he was making unforced errors and struggled to hit his first serve too often to make significant strides. Meanwhile, Sinner simply kept applying the pressure and didn’t give up any points on his first serve to take the remaining two sets (6-4, 7-5) and the title.
The US Open win marked Sinner’s second Grand Slam title of his career. He won his first this year as well, emerging victorious at the Australian Open. He became the first player since 1977 to win his first two Grand Slams in the same season.
Fritz, on the other hand, failed to make the most of his first appearance in Grand Slam finals. He was looking to become the first American to win a major title since Andy Roddick did it at the 2003 US Open.
“There’s obviously a lot of positives, and when I get some time to cool down then I’ll be happy about the fact that I made it to the finals,” Fritz said after the match. “But right now I’m pretty disappointed in just a lot of things on the court, how I played, how I hit certain shots.
