{"id":119950,"date":"2025-09-07T03:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119950\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:03:04","slug":"jannik-sinner-completes-achievement-only-roger-federer-rafael-nadal-and-novak-djokovic-can-match-at-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119950\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner completes achievement only Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic can match at the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jannik Sinner is now just one win away from becoming the first man to successfully defend the US Open title since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian has enjoyed a dominant campaign at Flushing Meadows so far, dropping just two sets en route to the championship match. <\/p>\n<p>After overcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/felix-auger-aliassime-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> in the semifinals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/what-will-happen-for-the-first-time-since-1973-when-carlos-alcaraz-meets-jannik-sinner-in-the-us-open-final\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner will come up against Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> for the 15th time in his career; this time for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> championship.<\/p>\n<p>Their upcoming clash marks the third consecutive Grand Slam final where the two have met, following their title bouts at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2233921759-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jannik Sinner reacts during his match with Felix Auger-Aliassime at the US Open.\" class=\"wp-image-127565\" \/>Photo by Elsa\/Getty ImagesJannik Sinner matches the \u2018big three\u2019 at the US Open <\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner<\/a>, it will be the fifth major final in a row that he has appeared in, becoming just the fourth player in the Open Era to do so. <\/p>\n<p>He joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/roger-federer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/rafael-nadal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the exclusive list of legends to have completed the feat since 1968.<\/p>\n<p>The world number one has won four of the last five Grand Slam events, and is undefeated at hard court majors since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He was three match points removed at Roland Garros from potentially closing in on a Calendar Grand Slam, which has not been achieved in men\u2019s tennis since 1969. <\/p>\n<p>Jannik Sinner\u2019s title defence at the 2025 US Open so far<\/p>\n<p>Sinner\u2019s 2025 US Open campaign began in comfortable fashion, with two straight-set victories over Vit Kopriva and former Masters 1000 champion Alexei Popyrin.<\/p>\n<p>In the third round, the 24-year-old was tested by Denis Shapovalov, but came through in four sets before handing a heavy defeat to Alexander Bublik in round four. <\/p>\n<p>RoundOpponentSemifinalFelix Auger-Aliassime (W)QuarterfinalLorenzo Musetti (W)Fourth RoundAlexander Bublik (W)Third RoundDenis Shapovalov (W)Second RoundAlexei Popyrin (W)First RoundVit Kopriva (W)Jannik Sinner\u2019s 2025 US Open campaign<\/p>\n<p>He made quick work of compatriot Lorenzo Musetti in the quarterfinals, beating him in two hours flat to advance to the final four. <\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime gave his all against Sinner in the semifinals, and managed to take a set off him, but ultimately the reigning champion returned to the final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner is now just one win away from becoming the first man to successfully defend the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[811,6766,6767,6768,101,118,56,54,55,6545],"class_list":{"0":"post-119950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-jannik-sinner","9":"tag-novak-djokovic","10":"tag-rafael-nadal","11":"tag-roger-federer","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}