Jannik Sinner Wins His Second Consecutive Australian Open Title After Beating Zverev
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Jannik Sinner was just the best player at the 2025 Australian Open, and he proved it against Alexander Zverev in the final.
There weren't many players who could trouble Sinner at this year's Australian Open. Tristan Schoolkate sensationally won a set against the ATP World No. 1 player, and Holger Rune won a set against the Italian as well.
But other than that, there weren't many challengers who could make Sinner fear the outcome of his match. In the final, he took on Zverev, who had a great tournament. The German player also lost only two sets on his way to the final, and having beaten Sinner in four of their previous six meetings, he hoped to succeed again.
To do that, he needed to play perfect tennis. And maybe even if he did, that wouldn't be enough, as Sinner was just incredibly dominant. The Italian player started the match with two perfect service games, and that set the tone for the remainder of the match.
When leading 4-3, Sinner pushed his opponent on return. Zverev resisted all he could, but a few unforced errors from the German player greatly helped the Italian, who just wasn't missing.
Sinner secured the first break of the match with one last forehand winner in what was the longest game of the opening set. The 23-year-old broke his opponent's serve and led 5-3. He then hit two aces and one winner to win the first set 6-3.
Zverev had most of his chances in the second set. Despite facing two break points at 1-1 after hitting a double fault, the German player was able to save both thanks to forehand winners and with an ace after that, he held his serve to lead 2-1.
Leading 5-4, Zverev got to a 30-0 lead on his opponent's serve. He was just two points away from winning the set, but Sinner erased that dream from the German's mind with three perfect first serves, eventually holding to make it 5-5.
A couple of games later, when leading 6-5, Zverev was two points away from winning the set again, as the scoreboard showed 30-30 on Sinner's serve. But again, the Italian player held, so a tie-break had to decide.
Both players made plenty of mistakes in the tie-break, but when the scoreboard showed 4-4, both could forget those and focus on the last points of the set. Sinner turned into a machine and didn't miss, painting the lines to win the tie-break 7-4, with his opponent in disbelief.
Zverev didn't know how to counter the top seed, who was just the dominant player at the Rod Laver Arena. And in the third set, the German player didn't find a way to trouble his opponent either.
Midway through the set, Sinner broke to lead 4-2, and frustrated Zverev couldn't understand how he was outplayed so easily in this final match. In the match, Sinner didn't face a single match point, and that didn't change until the last rally was played.
Sinner won the match 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-3, winning his second consecutive Australian Open title and a third consecutive hard court Grand Slam title.
