David Worsley: Tennis journalist wraps up the 2025 Australian Open finals

Jannik Sinner has defended his Grand Slam title in Melbourne overnight, beating German Alexander Zverev.

Saturday evening saw Madison Keys throw a spanner in the works to world number one Aryna Sabalenka's Grand Slam plan. 

Tennis journalist David Worsley talks to Ryan Bridge about the dramatic scenes that unfolded across the ditch. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Janick Sinner has taken at the Italian, defending his
first ever Grand Slam title. This in Melbourne overnight on
Saturday evening. It was Madison Keys upsetting Ariana Sebelenka to
claim her first Grand Slam title. David was sorry, David
Worsley is with us this morning, Dave, good morning, good morning, right, yeah,
good to have you on. So what happened last night.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, pretty dramatic in a sense that dramatic that we
saw Janick Sinner when his third Grand Slam overall, and
to think the second seed alexandro Verev to set very close,
but then it was really you saw a Sinner just
up his level and Zena have just struggled to keep up.
But it was a great final in the sense of

(00:43):
the hitting was just so powerful, the way they played
each other around the court, and the way that just
had an answer to everything. So we are seeing potentially
a great player here in Janick Center as he took
his well second Grand Name in a row to winning
US Open last year. And of course the Australian opened

(01:04):
early last year as well, and the Italian is just
looking looking like he's going to be adding a lot
of Grand Slam titles to his tally, so that that
was last night. It was it was a good final,
but Alexander Verrea, third time he's been runner up in
a Grand Slam now.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
In Spare I thought quite quite an honest assessment from
him post match, saying basically, Sinner's better.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, And that was the most honest thing he
could say. It was that, yes, Sinner is just too
good alan the court. There the devastation for Zeev. He
was about to talk in front of everybody and he
had his shield, not the trophy, and he struggled. You
could see the emotion coming out, and eventually he was

(01:49):
able to say something and basically it was Janix Sinner
was too good tonight. Hopefully I'll be able to actually
win that trophy in the future, but tonight definitely too good.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
The anti doping issue that's sort of been plaguing Center
could come back again. Does it have the potential to
affect his French Open and whether he could even get
on the court.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yes, the French Opening particular because Wada is having I
guess I could say, having another go at him and
protesting about negligence rather than the actual fact that he
had something in a system, albeit a very minor something.
So they're going to try to put negligence on this
one and likely they could come through and get a

(02:35):
ban on Cinner. Well, this is the predictions anyway. Albeit
it could be a retrospective band, which is a band
without having a band basically. So what it could be,
for instance, is that he gets a month that is
not allowed to play on the tour instead of potentially
six months, and they'll say, well, because it's taken so long,

(02:56):
we'll say that you've actually served part of this band
even though you haven't, and will mean that you can
take a month off and you won't be able to play,
say the French Open. So that's all the delicate things
that happen around the drugs, non drugs, doping etc. And
that's the protection that we'll probably see going through because

(03:16):
while are out to get something because they are very
enoyed that they didn't text get him initially.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
All right, Dave, thank you so much for that update.
I guess he'll just save the win while he's got it.
Dave Worsley Key we tennis journalist in Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
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