Sinner and Medvedev have met at three of the 4 Grand Slams this yr, however this match didn’t absolutely attain the prime quality of their earlier outings.
Sinner got here again from two units down in opposition to Medvedev to win his maiden Grand Slam title in Melbourne, whereas Medvedev obtained his revenge in one other five-set match within the Wimbledon final eight in July.
Requested to serve first, Medvedev was instantly beneath stress, having to save lots of a break level earlier than being damaged to like a number of video games later.
Sinner barely missed a step on serve earlier than the beginning of the second set, when he was drawn into the longer rallies that Medvedev thrives on.
The Russian went up an early break and doubled his benefit after a 10-minute recreation on the Sinner serve which ended with the Italian dumping a forehand into the online.
With the match stage, the momentum swung in direction of Sinner, who reeled off 5 video games in a row and had three set factors on the Medvedev serve to register a dreaded ‘bagel’.
Medvedev managed to scrape one recreation within the third set and went off court docket to regroup, however instantly needed to get well from 0-30 down in his first service recreation and a break of serve felt inevitable.
As soon as Sinner secured the decisive break for a 4-3 lead, his high quality got here by, with victory secured with a surprising forehand winner.
Sinner has misplaced solely two hard-court matches this season and gained 4 titles on the floor, together with his Australian Open triumph.
His most up-to-date success was at Cincinnati in August, successful the title the day earlier than information emerged he had been cleared of any wrongdoing after twice testing optimistic for a banned substance earlier this yr.