Sinner matched Nadal and Djokovic with two crowns in Beijing after a simple end

Sinner matched Nadal and Djokovic with two crowns in Beijing after a simple end

Jannik Sinner was proclaimed Beijing ATP 500 champion by overcoming Learner Tien 6-2 and 6-2 in one hour and twelve minutes. With this victory, the 24-year-old Italian achieves his twentieth first title, The third of 2025 after the Australia and Wimbledon Open, and equals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic as the only ones with more than one crown in the Chinese capital.

The game started with a gift from Tien: double foul in its first service and three breakage balls for the Italian. Sinner needed to wait for his rival’s mistake to take the lead. With the serve as the main weapon (five ‘Aces’ in the first partial), he consolidated the advantage with authority and broke again in 4-1, after an exchange in which he moved his rival from the bottom to climb to the network and close the point. The 6-2 arrived with another blank game and a final ‘ace’, after even a double momentary fault did not alter its score control.

Tien, the young American revelation of the tournament, tried to rebel in the second manga and opened with a perfect game to the serve. He even had a break in the second game, but Sinner neutralized it with a direct service and tied the 1-1. From there, the solidity of the world number two imposed again: a break in the fifth game caused by a new lack of the American, and another in the seventh, left their rival without margin. With a partial of three consecutive games, he closed the meeting with the same score of the first set, 6-2.

Tien, who reached his first ATP final with just 19 years and after beating Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals and in the quarterfinals to Lorenzo Musetti, both for abandonment of his rivals due to physical problems, he could barely disturb the rhythm of the main head of the tournament, although he left flashes of his potential, especially at the beginning of the second partial.

With this title, Sinner already adds two crowns in Beijing (2023 and 2025) and becomes the third player with more than one title in the tournament, after Djokovic and Nadal. It also extends to nine its streak of consecutive endings on a hard court already 23-2 its balance on this surface in 2025.

The Italian, who already won the Australia Open and Wimbledon this year, reinforces its candidacy for the ATP finals of Turin And he will now travel to Shanghai to play the 1000 Masters, where Alcaraz will not be, in the continuity of the Asian tour.

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