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World fig 1 Jannik Sinner stormed past Taylor Fritz to triumph the US Open and unafraid a 2nd Grand Slam rubric of the year.
Italy's Sinner, who won his archetypal large rubric astatine the Australian Open successful January, held disconnected a precocious complaint from American 12th effect Fritz to triumph 6-3 6-4 7-5.
It comes conscionable 19 days aft it was revealed he had been cleared of immoderate wrongdoing aft doubly investigating affirmative for a banned substance successful March.
Sinner held his arms aloft and looked up to the entity arsenic helium became the archetypal subordinate since Guillermo Vilas successful 1977 to triumph his archetypal 2 Grand Slam titles successful the aforesaid season.
He is besides the archetypal Italian antheral to triumph the singles rubric astatine Flushing Meadows.
Fritz, meanwhile, was incapable to go the archetypal American antheral Grand Slam singles champion successful 21 years.
Andy Roddick, who was watching from the stands, remains the past American antheral to assistance a large singles trophy, having won the US Open successful 2003.
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