A Grand Slam final between the No. 1 and 2 players in the world is a rare enough event to be savored, and one that should theoretically produce a tight contest. These are the best of the best, going head-to-head on one of the game’s four biggest stages, showing why they’re ranked where they are. In the case of the 2025 Australian Open final, the one-two duo was Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev. The last time they had played, the match went down to a final-set tiebreak.
But that’s not how their meeting on Sunday worked out. Not even close. Instead, Sinner’s 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-3 win showed why he stands head-and-shoulders above everyone else right now, and, at the same time, how much he’s still improving. His win was, in a word, comprehensive.
You can see it, first of all, in the stat lines. Sinner hit 32 winners and made 27 errors, compared to 25 and 46 for Zverev—that’s a plus-26 for the top seed. If anything, the break-point comparison was more one-sided: Sinner had 10 of them, Zverev none.
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