Jannik Sinner beat Alexander Zverev for his second title Australian Open in a row

Jannik sinner won his second consecutive consecutive Australian Open Championship on Sunday, never faced any break ball and using his complete game to outplay and frustrate Alexander Zverev To win 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the finals.

Sinner, 23-year-old Italian, is the youngest man who left Melbourne Park with a trophy for two years in a row from Jim Courier 1992-93.

Sonner climbed to the number 1 last June, staying there every week since then, and the gap between him and Zverevo, which is on number 2, was as pronounced as he could be in the Roda Laver Arena. This was the first final of the Australian Open between men on number 1 and number 2 since 2019, when Number 1 Novak Djokovic won the number 2 Rafael Nadal – Also in flat sets.

Here’s how the son has been dominant since the beginning of last season: he has won three of the five big tournaments, including the US Open in September, and his record during that period is 80-6 with a total of nine tournament titles. His current streak without defeat covers 21 games, from last year.

The only thing that has clouded the last 12 months for a sonner, it seems, is the case of a doping in which he was acquitted by a judgment to which the World Anti -Doping Agency complained. Last March, he was twice positive about anabolic steroids in traces, but blamed the random exposure to two members of his team in the meantime. The son was originally released in August; The hearing in the WADA appeal is scheduled for April.

While the sonner became the eighth player in the Open Eri (which began in 1968), which began his career with 3-0 at Grand Slam finals, Zverev is seventh with 0-3, adding this defeat to those at the US Open 2020 and the Open Championship France 2024.

Both earlier failures came in five sets. This competition was not so tight. Not at all.

There was really only one moment that seemed to contain a glimmer of tension. It was late in the second set, and Zverev was two points of possession when he led 5-4 and came to Love-30 to Sinner’s service. But the turning point – and the placed point – never got there.

Zverev did not approach, dropped the next four points, which makes him a total of 5. The son then appeared in Tiebrek that followed. There are no surprises here: he has achieved 4-0 in the decisive sets in the last two weeks and has won 16 of his past 18.

A year ago, the son went through much more problems to win his first straw, first he had to surpass Novak Djokovic – who lost one set in his semifinal against Zverevo on Friday because of a tattoo – before deleting two sets. In the finals against the US Open 2021 champion Daniila Medvedev.

Victory over Zverev enabled Sinner to become the first man ever since Nadal At the 2005 and 2006 French Open to follow his first Grand Slam title as a champion in the same tournament a year later.