Top-ranked Jannik Sinner beats Novak Djokovic to win Shanghai Masters final

The US Open and Australian Open champion levelled his vocation head-to-head grounds against Djokovic astatine 4-4

World fig 1 Jannik Sinner defeated 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 to triumph the Shanghai Masters successful China.

Sinner took a important interruption successful the 4th crippled of the 2nd acceptable to decision the Serbian successful 1 hour, 37 minutes connected Sunday, denying Djokovic a 100th vocation singles title.

Facing disconnected earlier an impassioned crowd, neither subordinate blinked successful the archetypal set, incapable to interruption the other’s serve.

In the tiebreak, Sinner rapidly took control, breaking Djokovic’s service connected the archetypal constituent and going 5-1 up.

The Serb steadied himself but past netted a volley to bring up acceptable constituent astatine 6-3.

Sinner failed to person initially but did not miss the 2nd clip down serve.

Sinner broke the contention unfastened successful the 4th crippled of the 2nd set, breaking Djokovic’s service with a superb forehand down the enactment to spell up 3-1.

All that remained was for the Italian to clasp his nervus successful the last games, which helium did by hitting an ace to decorativeness the lucifer and assertion his seventh ATP rubric of the season.

Italy’s Jannik Sinner won his seventh ATP rubric of 2024 astatine the Shanghai Masters. [Qian Jun/MB Media via Getty Images]