world number one janx sner has won his second Grand Slam singles title beating American Taylor Fritz to win the US Open Fritz the world number 12 was bidding to be the first American man to win a grand slam singles title in 21 years Andy rodic who was in attendance Sunday is the last American man to do it when he won the 2003 US Open the 23-year-old CER on an 11 match win streak won the Australian Open in January he joins Flavia Panetta who won the women's singles Championship in 2015 as the only Italian singles champions in US Open tournament history Fritz is the first American man to reach a grand slam singles final since rodic was runner-up to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009 sinner who avoided suspension after twice testing positive for Trace Amounts of the ban substance clust to ball won easily against Fritz this is the first year since 2002 that none of the members of men's tennis big three Novak jovic Rafael Nadal and the now retired Federer won a grand slam instead the majors were split by cner and Carlos alcaraz with the Spaniard winning the French Open and Wimbledon cner won the last four games as Fritz failed to serve out the third set cner had trouble serving 51% of first serves in but averaged just five unforced errors per set aside from double faults in three of his five service games Fritz missed the putaway shot and went behind immediately his low first serve percentage 38% was a factor in losing the first set six to to three but even more important was the proportion of points won behind those serves Fritz won just 55% way down on the 81% he had averaged for the rest of the tournament Fritz was missing the lines with his first serve and when he got them in cner was able to get the ball back deep and put the American on the back foot Fritz struggled to bring his forehand into play Early in points as a result and the struggles he had on his serve meant that despite a pretty good returning day he was too often behind the eight ball just when it looked like Fritz had gotten his feet under him straightening out his first set serving problems and staying even with cner through the second the wheels came off the first player to break the other serve was likely to win the match and Fritz had gone from Landing just 38% of his first serves in the first set to nearly 90% in the second set through his first four service games all points in games are supposed to be equal in tennis they're not lose your serve in the first game of a set and you have several more chances to draw even lose it when you're a set down and four five behind and you've lost at least 40% of a match beating center from ahead or while staying even is hard enough climbing out of a two- set hole to do it is nearly impossible