Sinner Defeats Medvedev To Win Australian Open Title.

Jannik Sinner is the 2024 Australian Open Champion, having recovered from two sets down to see off a fatigued Daniil Medvedev in five sets.

The fourth-seeded South Tyrolean came through 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to win his first Grand Slam title in three hours and forty-four minutes.

You can catch the match stats, the highlights, the trophy ceremony and a quick match recap below.

Australian Open 2024 Final Result

Match Stats

Highlights

Trophy Ceremony

Quick Match Recap

In his on-court interview after the semi-final, Daniil Medvedev had hoped the phrase third time lucky would ring true on Sunday but admitted in his experience, it didn’t always quite work like that.

At two sets to love, it looked as though luck was going to be on his side, but as his energy levels faded, the latter part of his statement rang true as Sinner used his fresher legs to grind down the Russian. 

In the first set, Medvedev adopted an unusually aggressive stance, closing the gap to the baseline and ripping his return, a strategic shift from his known preference for playing deep.

This approach rattled Sinner, denying the young Italian his trademark rhythm. With an impressive 84% first-serve point win rate, Medvedev’s service game gave him plenty of breathing room.

While it is impressive to see that Meddy has that in his locker, the method was employed to try and prevent a slugfest he’s endured throughout the two weeks in Melbourne.

Medvedev’s momentum continued into the second set, and the tactical gamble of engaging in aggressive, forward-moving play was still too hot to handle for the Italian. Despite a brief resurgence from Sinner, who recovered one break of serve, Medvedev held firm to establish a two-set lead.

However, things began to change in the third set; after witnessing a mini resurgence from Sinner at the end of the second set, he continued that trend and started to force Medvedev back into the rallies whose groundstrokes didn’t have as much zip on them as the first set and a half.

In the fourth set, the big moment came at game seven, where Medvedev had a 0-30 window on Sinner’s serve. A poor return off a second serve prevented three break points, and although the Russian eventually held a break point, Sinner snuffed it out with a massive ace down the T.

That proved to be the end of any real hope of Medvedev finding the finish line as Sinner broke when leading 5-4 in the fourth, and by serving first in the fifth set, he had the scoreboard on his side.

The fifth started cagely enough, but in game six, Sinner stepped it up again, breaking for 4-2 with Medvedev looking increasingly bedraggled. That proved enough as Sinner held his next two service games to close it out 6-3 in the fifth.

Press Conference

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