Australian Open 2025 as it happened: Zverev heckled after Sinner wins final to claim back-to-back singles titles

Jannik Sinner has labelled his second successive Australian Open an “amazing performance”, but acknowledged he needed a stroke of luck to win the crucial second-set tie-breaker in the men’s singles final.

The only time Sinner looked troubled by his German opponent throughout the entire night was when the second set was tied up at 6-6.

But even then, fate was on the Italian’s side.

With the score locked at 4-all in the tie-breaker, Sinner hit the top of the net during a multiple-shot rally and the ball popped over the tape and dropped in for an unlikely winner, leaving Alexander Zverev shaking his head in disappointment.

A gutted Alexander Zverev has admitted he was completely outplayed by world No.1 Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open men’s singles final.

The German has now lost three grand slam singles finals from as many appearances, following the straight-sets capitulation to the Italian on Rod Laver Arena 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3. The match was over in two hours and 42 minutes.

“From the back of the court, [he] completely outplayed me,” the dejected Zverev said in his post-match press conference.

Jannik Sinner says he had petrol in the tank to see out tonight’s men’s singles final despite concerns about his fitness throughout the tournament.

He appeared to suffer heat stress during his fourth-round win over Holger Rune and looked to cramp in his semi-final.

He was asked how he felt heading into the clash with Alexander Zverev on Rod Laver Arena tonight?

“Honestly, in semi-finals and finals you have much more pressure, you have much more adrenaline in your body and I feel like this keeps you going,” he said.

Following decades of dominance from Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, we are now clearly into a new era, according to Jim Courier.

The Nine commentator is labelling it the dawn of the ‘New Two’ - Italian Jannik Sinner and Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz.

“We are calling it the ‘New Two’ - Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz who have swept the last four majors (French Open, Wimbledon, US Open and Australian Open).

“We will see if someone can elbow their way, maybe it was Holger Rune who was the biggest threat when Sinner wasn’t feeling his best. Sinner escaped that.

Alexander Zverev paused his runners-up speech after shouting from an individual in the crowd.

He has faced allegations of domestic abuse for more than three years and has strenuously denied them.

The allegations were made by two women; ex-girlfriend Olga Sharypova, who made the claims of emotional and physical abuse in a 2020 article by tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg, and another ex-girlfriend, Brenda Patea, who claimed the tennis player pushed her against a wall and “choked” her during an argument.

A woman in the crowd disrupted the post-match presentation, targeting the world No.2.