No. 1 Jannik Sinner defeats Taylor Fritz to win 2024 US Open - ESPN

NEW YORK — Jannik Sinner beat Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 with a relentless baseline game to win the US Open men's singles championship Sunday, less than three weeks after being exonerated in a doping case.

The No. 1-ranked Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy, won the second Grand Slam trophy of his nascent career — the other was at the Australian Open in January — and prevented No. 12 Fritz from ending a major title drought for American men that has lasted 21 years.

Sinner is the fourth different man to win both the Australian Open and US Open in the same year since 1988, when the Australian major transitioned from grass to hard court. With Aryna Sabalenka having swept both the Australian Open and US Open, too, it's the first time that the same man and the same woman won both hard-court majors in the same year since 1988 (Mats Wilander and Steffi Graf did so that year).

Sinner dedicated his victory to his aunt, who he said is dealing with health issues.

«I love tennis, I practice a lot for this kind of stage,» he said during the trophy presentation. «I also realize off the court there is a life,» noting that it means a lot for him to be able to share these positive moments with his family.

Andy Roddick's triumph at Flushing Meadows in 2003 was the last Slam title for a man from the United States. The last before Fritz, a 26-year-old from California, to even contest a final at one of the four biggest tournaments in tennis also was Roddick, who lost to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009.

«Being an American at the US Open, it's just incredible feeling love all week — thank you so much,» Fritz told the New York crowd. «I know we've been waiting for a champion for a long time, so I'm sorry I couldn't get it done. I'm going to