Winning the first Major title is never easy. However, stepping in and defending it a year later is even harder! Jannik Sinner achieved that at this year's Australian Open, continuing where he left a year ago and extending his Melbourne reign.

Jannik Sinner joined some of tennis' greatest legends with another stellar performance in the Australian Open final.

It was since 2019 – when Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal faced each other in the final – that the last act of the Happy Slam had not pitted the top two players in the ATP ranking against each other.

A year after earning his first Grand Slam title at the same event, Sinner became the youngest man to leave Melbourne Park with the trophy two years in a row since Jim Courier in 1993.

Jannik Sinner of Italy holds the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup aloft after defeating Alexander Zverev of Germany in the men’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia,