After seven days of hectic and exciting tennis in Halle, Jannik Sinner has won his fourth title of 2024 and consolidated his stay at the summit of the ATP rankings.
The Halle Open final was going to be the fifth meeting between Jannik Sinner and Hubert Hurkacz with each of them winning two of the previous four meetings. The World No.1 went into the final as the tournament’s favorite and the world No. 1, while Hubert Hurkacz was ranked at No. 9. This was the second final between them since Hurkacz defeated Sinner in the Miami Open final of 2021 which incidentally was their first ever meeting.
In the Halle Open final, both players were dominant on their serves, having to rely on two tiebreaks to separate each other.
Jannik Sinner Needs 1st Set Tiebreak To Win
Jannik Sinner produced the first breakpoint of the match in the third game of the first set which Hubert Hurkacz quickly saved to hold his serve. In the next game, it was Hurkacz’s turn to produce a breakpoint on Sinner’s serve. What followed were two games that showed the excellence of both players’ serves, with each player holding serve to love.
Both players continued to hold serve with solid displays of serving prowess, with neither of them allowing a single breakpoint again for the rest of the set till it broke into a tiebreak. Jannik Sinner and Hubert Hurkacz played the tiebreak to an 88 tie before the Italian won the next two points to take the first set and plant one hand firmly on the Halle Open title.
Sinner Takes The Title At The 1st Opportunity
After a solid hold of his serve at the beginning of the second set, Jannik Sinner produced two breakpoints on Hubert Hurkacz’s serve in the subsequent game. The Polish superstar had to dig deep to hold his serve in a game that lasted over five minutes.
Jannik Sinner hit his first double fault of the match in the ninth game of the set, a game that would otherwise have been flawless. Two games and two aces later, the Italian was a game away from the title. Hubert Hurkacz replied in the 12th game with two aces and a flawless service game to send the set into a tiebreak and keep his hopes of forcing a third set alive.
When Jannik Sinner started the tiebreak with an ace, it showed signs of things to come. The Italian dominated the Pole in the tiebreak, at a point leading 5-1. Two points later, Sinner produced four championship points. The Italian took the match in the first opportunity to win his fourth title of the year. The tiebreak lasted just a minute and a half.
Road To The Final
Jannik Sinner had to come from behind in the first round of the Halle Open against Tallon Griekspoor, overcome a resurgent Fabian Marozsan in the second round, defeat a stout home favorite in Jan-Lennard Struff in three difficult sets, and overcome China’s Zhang Zhizhen with a second set tiebreak, to get to the final.
Jannik Sinner’s opponent in the final who happened to have been his doubles partner in the Halle Open till the quarterfinals where they got knocked out, Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz, defeated Flavio Cobolli, James Duckworth, Marcos Giron, and Alexander Zverev en route to the final without dropping a single set. Hurkacz has climbed two spaces to seventh after getting to the Halle Open final.
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