Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner ended his handsome year as the top player in men’s singles by overwhelmingly winning the final tournament of the ATP tour in his hometown of Turin.
Jannik Sinner did not lose a single set in the tournament, when the Italian defeated the American in the final match By Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4.
Sinner, 23, won the Australian Open and the US Open as the grand slam tournaments this season. The Italian, who rose to number one in the world rankings at the beginning of the summer, also won three Masters-level competitions in Miami, Cincinnati and Shanghai.
At the end of the summer, Sinner got into the middle of a doping scandal, but the Italian star survived the incident without a ban. In March, Sinner gave doping test samples that contained the banned steroid clostebol. However, the banned substance was considered to have ended up in the player’s body when the physiotherapist had treated the wound in Sinner’s hand with a spray containing klostebol.
The first place in the valuable ATP final tournament was Sinner’s first in his career. Last year, he bowed out in the final match of the tournament For Novak Djokovic in two installments.
The grand slam tournament victories of the ATP season went to young players this season, as the 21-year-old Carlos Alcaraz took victories at the French Open and Wimbledon. Alcaraz has four grand slam tournament wins in his career, Sinner has two this year.