The final battle of the Australian Open tennis tournament debuted, the world's No. 3 Mei and the world's No. 4 Sinner, did not expect Mei to reverse in five sets in the quarterfinals, but in today's final, Sinner staged a magical reversal after losing the first two sets, and after 3 hours and 44 minutes of five-set battle, he won his first Grand Slam championship!
The 22-year-old Sinner is the biggest winner of this year's Australian Open, having never dropped a set before facing 10-time champion Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals, but he delivered Djokovic his first Australian Open defeat since 2018 after four sets.
In contrast, Mr. Mei has been on the verge of failure twice in two weeks. He trailed Rusuvori in the second round and Zverev in the quarterfinals by two sets, but came back to win both times. Mei is always reaching his sixth Grand Slam final and his third in Melbourne, and he is looking to add a second Grand Slam title to his 2021 US Open victory.
Mei and Sinner have played each other 9 times before, although Mei leads 6-3, but since last year's China Open, Vienna and ATP year-end finals, Sinner has won three consecutive victories, and at the same time, plus 4 strong wins and ten championships, the outside world is more optimistic that Sinner can win before the game.
But I didn't expect the situation to be abnormal after the start of the game, in the first set, Mr. Mei took the lead in the third game, and his own serve game was completely guaranteed, taking the lead all the way, and after completing the second break at the third break point in the 9th game, he easily won the first set 6-3.
In the second set, Sinner finally held serve after 5 duece defused 4 break points in the 2nd game, but at 1-2, he was still broken in the 4th and 6th games in succession, and after losing 4 games in a row, although he finally broke the first game in the 7th game, it did not help the situation much, and he still failed to break back in the 9th game, and Mei won the second set 6-3 again.
In the third set, the two sides entered a mutual protection battle, the first 9 games of the two sides guaranteed each other and did not have a single break point, in the 10th game Sinner grasped the only break point in the whole set, and finally successfully broke serve, and won 6-4, but still fell behind 1-2.
The fourth set was the same as the third, with the two sides protecting each other's first nine games, and Sinner successfully broke serve in the 10th game to tie the game 6-4.
After the first 5 games of the two sides, Sinner successfully drew 5-2 after the key break in the 6th game, and successfully held the opponent in the 9th game without giving the opponent a chance, and finally won the key set 6-3 and won the Grand Slam championship for the first time!