It is the best possible final at the beginning of 2025. The number 1 and number 2 in the world in search of the first Grand Slam of the season. They are the fittest tennis players from this beginning of the year and from part of last year. Jannik Sinner, 23 years old, and Alexander Zverev, 27 years oldmeet at the Rod Laver Arena this Sunday at the best of their levels, after two weeks of overcoming their own and other people’s problems and prevailing against all their rivals.
For the Italian it is the opportunity to add his third Grand Slam, after the Australian and US Open in 2024; an opportunity to demonstrate his confirmation, to claim that his place at the heights of tennis has not been a one-year success, but is capable of extending as long as he wants. And that he is not even affected by the upcoming resolution of his case due to the two positive tests he committed last March for clostebol and which aroused so much criticism.
For the German it is time to win his first ‘great’, the one he has been pursuing for a long time and for which he admitted that perhaps he was not prepared on previous occasions, but for which he has insisted on improving until he achieves it. Even overcoming the serious ankle injury that occurred in the semifinals of Roland Garros 2022 against Rafael Nadal. Even reserving a court to continue training after each game, even after winning the title.
It will be a final in style, not only because of their positions in the ranking, but because of their heights, 1’92 for the Italian, 1’98 for the German; and for the equality that the duels between the two have always had. It is Zverev who has the head-to-head advantage 4-2.
It is Sinner who won in the first date: round of 16 at Roland Garros 2020 (6-3, 6-3, 4-6 and 6-3); and in the last: semifinal of the 2024 Cincinnati Masters 1,000, a high voltage that was resolved with a very tight 7-6 (9), 5-7 and 7-6 (4) in three hours and 7 minutes. In between, there were four consecutive victories for Zverev: Cologne 2020 semifinal (7-6 (3) and 6-3); eighth of the US Open 2021 (6-4, 6-4 and 7-6 (7)); quarterfinals of Monte Carlo (5-7, 6-3 and 7-6 (5)), and round of 16 of the US Open 2023 (6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 4-6 and 6-3). And there is a desire for revenge on both sides.
It will be the third Grand Slam final for Sinner, who has won the other two, in Melbourne and New York last year, against Daniil Medvedev (3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 and 6-3 ) and against Taylor Fritz (6-3, 6-4 and 7-5). It will be the third Grand Slam final for Zverev, after those he lost at the 2020 US Open (to Dominic Thiem 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 and 7-6 (7)) and in Roland Garros 2024 (against Alcaraz, 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 1-6 and 6-2).
What time do Sinner and Zverev play the Australian 2025 final?
The match between Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev is scheduled for this Sunday, January 26, starting at 9:30 p.m. in Melbourne, starting at 9.30 am in Spain.
Where to watch the Australian Open final between Sinner and Zverev on television and online?
The match between Sinner and Zverev is broadcast on Eurosporta platform that has the rights to the Australian Open. And you can follow minute by minute and all the information about the tournament on ABC.es
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