Tennis player Sinner is the second after Djokovic to collect the career Masters

Italian world number one Yannick Sinner beat Norwegian Kasper Ruud in the final of the Masters tennis tournament in Rome, with a prize pool exceeding €8.2 million, and repeated the achievement of Novak Djokovic. The match ended with Ruud's defeat with the score 4:6, 4:6.

The tennis players spent 1 hour and 45 minutes on the court. The score of personal meetings became 5-0 in favor of the Italian athlete.

Sinner became the second player in history after Djokovic to win the Golden Career Masters. The Italian has won all nine tournaments in this category since its launch in 1990. The 24-year-old also scored his 34th consecutive victory at the Masters, updating his own record for this indicator.

For the Italian, this ATP title was the fifth of the season and the 29th of his career. Sinner became the first Italian representative to win the tournament in Rome since Adriano Panatta in 1976.

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For the first time in many months, Russian tennis players reached the quarterfinals of the tournament in sync, and Mirra Andreeva lost to Coco Gauff again.

Russian tennis players Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider won the WTA 1000 doubles tournament in Rome on the same day. The Russians beat the Spaniard Kristina Buksha and the American Nicole Melicar-Martinez with a score of 6:3, 6:3. The rivals played under the second seeding. The match lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes.