Sinner wins the final match of the ATP Tour season… ‘First’ Italian player born in the 2000s
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input2024-11-18 09:09:24
(Sports Seoul | Reporter Park Jun-beom) Jannick Sinner (1st place, Italy) also stood at the top in the final match of this year’s Men’s Professional Tennis (ATP) Tour.
Sinner defeated Taylor Fritz (5th place, USA) with a set score of 2-0 (6-4 6-4) in the men’s singles final of the Neito ATP Finals held in Turin, Italy on the 18th (Korean time) and lifted the trophy. .
Last year, he reached the final and lost to Novak Djokovic (6th place, Serbia), but this time was different. Djokovic did not participate in this tournament, and Carlos Alcaras (3rd place, Spain) was eliminated in the group stage.
Sinner, who swept the Australian Open and US Open this year, became the first Italian player to be ranked number one in the world at the end of the year in ATP Tour singles. He also had the pleasure of becoming the first Italian player to win the final match of the ATP Tour and the first champion born in the 2000s.
After the match, Sinner said, “It has a special meaning to become the first Italian player to win a singles title. “I think it is the result of thorough preparation and effort for each game,” he said. beam2@sportsseoul.com
