The 2024 Australian Open Men's Singles final was the championship

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match of the men's singles tournament at the

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, contested by fourth-seed

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and third-seed

Daniil Medvedev Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev (russian: Даниил Сергеевич Медведев; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 7 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and was ...

. Sinner came back to defeat Medvedev from two-sets-to-love down, marking the second such loss for Medvedev in the Australian Open final after his defeat to

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in the 2022 final. It was Sinner's first major final. He became the second Italian man in the

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to win a singles major, after

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at the 1976 French Open, and the first new Australian Open champion in ten years, since Stan Wawrinka in

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. At 22, Sinner was the youngest Australian Open men's singles champion and finalist since

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. This was the first Australian Open final since 2005 not to feature any of the Big Three members. Medvedev set an Open Era record for the most time spent playing at a singles major, at 24 hours and 17 minutes. Medvedev also became the first player in the Open Era to lose two major finals after having a two-set lead.

Background

Entering the final, Medvedev lead the career head-to-head 6–3. However, Sinner had won their last three matches, including the most recent match at the 2023 ATP Finals. In the semifinals, Sinner defeated the defending champion and world No. 1

, ending his 33-match winning streak at the Australian Open (dating back from the

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tournament), as well as marking the Serbian's first-ever defeat in an Australian Open semifinal and his first defeat in any major semifinal since the

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. Also in the semifinals, Medvedev came back from two-sets-to-love down against Alexander Zverev to reach a third Australian Open final. Medvedev had already played two other five-set matches, against

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in the second round (when he came back from two-sets-to-love down as well) and against

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in the quarterfinals. Overall, Medvedev dropped eight sets en route to the final while Sinner had dropped only one set, in his semifinal match against Djokovic.

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