By Amy Tennery
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Italian Jannik Sinner beat American 12th seed Taylor Fritz 6-3 6-4 7-5 in the U.S. Open men’s final on Sunday.
Sinner held aloft his arms in celebration after breaking Fritz to clinch the title and cheers rang around Arthur Ashe Stadium, even though home fans had hoped to see Fritz end a 21-year U.S. men’s Grand Slam drought.
Sinner was under a cloud of controversy at the start of the tournament after revelations that he tested positive twice for an anabolic agent in March but avoided a ban when an independent tribunal accepted his claim that the positive tests were the result of an unintentional contamination.
The top seed blocked out the furore in New York and with the win claimed his second Grand Slam title after winning the Australian Open earlier this year.
(Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York, additional reporting by Karl Plume in New York, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
