19:42 CET – That shall be all from our coverage today, and of the Italian Open! Elina Svitolina and Jannik Sinner have been crowned champions in Rome, and our live coverage will return with the start of the French Open on May 24th!
19:09 CET – Jannik Sinner has done it! The world number one has completed the remarkable feat of the Career Golden Masters!
The Italian wasn’t at his best, and has looked slightly fatigued since the semi-finals, yet he is still miles ahead of his competitors, winning 6-4, 6-4 against Casper Ruud to claim the Rome title on home turf – his 10th ATP 1000 title overall.
Sinner has now won every single Masters title, becoming only the second player to do so after Novak Djokovic. The Serb was 31 when he achieved it – Sinner is 24!
He has now won six straight Masters titles and 34 consecutive matches at this level. He is the overwhelming favourite for the French Open, and it is hard to see how anyone can stop him. It is frightening what he is doing right now.
From Ruud’s perspective, he didn’t actually play too badly, but the gap between him and Sinner is too large to bridge. However, he can take some confidence in his form heading into Roland Garros.
18:13 CET – Jannik Sinner is a set away from the Career Golden Masters!
Casper Ruud played a strong set and even took an early 2-0 lead. However, Sinner was his usual cool and calculated self, targeting Ruud’s backhand, asserting his dominance to take the opener 6-4. He is on course for history.
17:20 CET – The players are out on court, and the match is about to begin! History is either being made today, or we are about to witness a huge upset.
Follow the final live here!
16:20 CET – It is almost time for the eagerly awaited men’s final in Rome as world number one Jannik Sinner takes on Casper Ruud for a shot at a historic title.
Sinner was enjoying another in a long list of routine weeks on the ATP tour until the semi-finals after winning every match in straight sets and in convincing style. However, Daniil Medvedev forced the top seed to fight for his place in the final despite traditionally struggling on clay.
Medvedev stunned Sinner in the second set to take the semi-final to a deciding set, and whilst Sinner regained dominance in the third set, it was far from routine.
Ruud, meanwhile, is strong on clay and has enjoyed a brilliant tournament of his own, dropping just one set in a quarter-final battle against Karen Khachanov.
Sinner’s semi-final performance will give Ruud some hope that he can at least make this final a competitive one and make the imperious Italian work for what would be a historic Career Golden Masters.
13:26 CET – All over in the women’s doubles final, where Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider have come out victorious, beating Cristina Busca and Nicole Melichar-Martinez in straight sets.
The Russian pair needed just 70 minutes to win the title in Rome, taking it 6-3, 6-3.
12:45 CET – If you want to follow some tennis ahead of the men’s singles final a little later, the women’s doubles final is currently ongoing, with Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider a set to the good against Cristina Bucsa and Nicole Melichar-Martinez.
12:00 CET – Welcome back to our coverage of the Italian Open, as the men’s final takes centre stage on the last day of the tournament!
The showpiece event sees who else, but Jannik Sinner, take on Casper Ruud at 17:00 CET, and there is so much history on the line for the former.
If the world number one can clinch the Rome title on home turf, he will complete the Career Golden Masters, meaning he has won every single ATP 1000 title possible.
Only Novak Djokovic has ever done that, and he was 31. Sinner is currently 24, illustrating the incredible feat he is on the verge of achieving. It would also be his sixth consecutive Masters title, extending the record he set in Madrid.
Additionally, Sinner is on a 33-match winning run at Masters level, and a 28-match winning streak overall. He broke Djokovic’s 31-match Masters run when he defeated Andrey Rublev in the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile, Ruud has just one Masters title to his name – Madrid in 2025. He was on the receiving end of one of the most incredible performances and demolition jobs we have seen in men’s tennis in the last few years in the semi-finals of Rome last year, when his opponent today, Sinner, dismantled him 6-0, 6-1.
He will be desperate to avoid anything close to a repeat of that.
We will preview the final and look at both players’ routes to the final ahead of the clash.
