An American man hasn't made it to the U.S. Open final since Roddick did so in 2006.
Sinner is vying for his second major of the year. Sinner won the Australian Open in January, another hard court surface, after being down two-sets-to-love to Daniil Medvedev. Only three men have pulled off the hard court double and won the Australian Open and U.S. Open in the same year since 1988 (Mats Wilander, 1988; Roger Federer, 2004, 2006, 2007; and Novak Djokovic, 2011, 2015, 2023).
Here's everything you need to know about the U.S. Open men's final:
Taylor Fritz of the United States (left) shakes hands with Jannik Sinner of Italy after Sinner wins their quarterfinal match at the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, Calif., Thursday, March 16, 2023. Andy Abeyta/The Desert Sun
The head-to-head between Sinner and Fritz is tied at one a piece. They last faced each other in the quarterfinals of the 2023 Indian Wells tournament in California, with Sinner coming away with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory on the hard court. Fritz won their previous matchup at the Indian Wells' Round of 16 in 2021, 6-4, 6-3.
Jannik Sinner's doping controversy
Sinner, the World No. 1 tennis player, parted ways with his fitness coach Umberto Ferrara and his physiotherapist Giacomo Naldi ahead of the tournament following a doping saga.
One day after winning the Cincinnati Open, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITA) announced that Sinner twice tested positive for Clostebol, an anabolic steroid banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, in a test at the BNP Paribas Open on March 10 and an out-of-competition test conducted March 18. Sinner claimed that a support team member regularly applied an over-the-counter spray containing Clostebol to treat their own wound before giving Sinner daily massages and sports therapy, "resulting in unknowing transdermal contamination. "
Following an investigation, the ITA accepted Sinner's explanation and determined that the "violation was not intentional."
Both the men's and women's singles champions will earn the same amount of money for winning the U.S. Open. The winner will take home $3.6 million, with the runner-up pocketing $1.8 million
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