The 23-year-old Italian is a runaway No 1 in the rankings but has yet to play his biggest rival in a grand slam final
“I’m just not good enough. It’s as simple as that,” Zverev said in his runner-up speech. Sinner was just “too good” for him, and while the crowd cheered sympathetically, they would struggle to disagree.
The Italian, who tested positive for the banned substance clostebol last year, will go before the Court of Arbitration for Sport after the World Anti-Doping Agency appealed the decision not to ban him.that his physio had used an ointment containing the banned performance enhancing drug on a cut on his thumb, and then inadvertently rubbed it into his client’s skin.
Between them, the three men Sinner has beaten to win his majors have just one slam title; Daniil Medvedev, whom the Italian beat to claim his maiden championship here 12 months ago, won the 2021 US Open, an achievement that already looks like being the high-water mark of his career.His first slam was won against Casper Ruud, and he beat Zverev in last year’s French Open, but he has twice toppled Djokovic in Wimbledon finals, once by a whisker and once by a mile.
And we have already seen these two great fighters of the baseline get in the ring together with a title on the line, in Beijing last year. It was arguably the best showdown of the season, Alcaraz hitting 80 of the match’s 130 winners to triumphed in a third-set tie-break.
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