Preview: Australian Open: Jannik Sinner vs. Nicolas Jarry - prediction, form, head-to-head

Jannik Sinner's ambition to triumph 3 consecutive hard-court Grand Slams successful a enactment begins with Monday's Australian Open first-round contention with Nicolas Jarry astatine Rod Laver Arena.

The defending champion returns to the venue of his maiden Slam occurrence 12 months ago, keen to debar a daze exit successful his 3rd circuit gathering with his Chilean opponent.

Match preview

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Days aft learning of his proceeding day for a imaginable two-year prohibition from the sport, Sinner begins his defence of his Australian Open rubric against Jarry, looking to widen his winning streak Down Under.

The Italian prima clinched past year's lawsuit to triumph his archetypal Slam astatine Daniil Medvedev's disbursal and could widen his series of victories to 8 matches by defeating his first-round opponent.  

Sinner was the astir awesome hard-court subordinate successful 2024, losing 3 times connected the aboveground past play to unafraid the Australian Open and US Open, either broadside of affable rival Carlos Alcaraz claiming the French Open and successfully defending his Wimbledon title.

Both men are connected other sides of the draw, with observers hoping for different mouthwatering clash betwixt this era's apical talents.

However, Sinner cannot look that acold up arsenic helium enters the opening Major of the twelvemonth successful the chartless territory of ne'er having defended a Grand Slam rubric before.

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Although it remains to beryllium seen if that unit affects the apical effect Down Under, Jarry hopes to exploit immoderate frailty successful the satellite No. one, who returns to competitory enactment connected Monday.

The Chilean mightiness person been beaten successful the pair's erstwhile gathering successful Beijing past year, but helium forced Sinner to a deciding acceptable aft claiming the opening acceptable successful that tournament's first-round match.

The satellite No. 34 volition purpose to repetition his beardown start, arsenic helium did astatine the China Open, and prolong it this clip to withstand the apical seed's effect if the 29-year-old is accelerated retired of the blocks.

Having travel into the archetypal Major of 2025 with the flimsy vantage of competitory enactment — the Chilean subordinate reached the quarter-finals successful Brisbane — Jarry volition anticipation to instrumentality vantage of immoderate rustiness connected the other broadside of the court.

However, past Down Under does not basal the satellite No. 34 successful bully stead: Jarry has suffered 3 tournament-opening losses successful his 4 main gully appearances and enters Monday arsenic the undoubted underdog against the starring subordinate connected the men's tour.

Head To Head

Beijing (2024) - Round of 32: Sinner 4-6 6-3 6-1

's-Hertogenbosch (2019) - Round of 32: Jarry 7-6(4) 6-3

Jarry won his archetypal gathering with Sinner connected the ATP Tour, but the Italian levelled their head-to-head grounds successful past year's first-round contention successful Beijing.

Sinner came done qualifying successful that grass-court lawsuit successful 2019, highlighting however overmuch has changed successful the six years since losing to the Chilean.

The satellite No. 34 secured 3 top-10 victories past twelvemonth — surpassing his achievements successful erstwhile years connected circuit — and is searching for his 11th wide occurrence implicit elite players.

We say: Sinner to triumph successful 4 sets

Jarry has taken a acceptable successful his erstwhile meetings with Sinner, and helium volition backmost himself to exploit immoderate rustiness from the Italian connected Monday.

However, the apical effect is expected to debar a daze connected his instrumentality to Rod Laver Arena to notch his eighth triumph connected the trot Down Under.

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