World number one Jannik Sinner will lock horns with home favourite Taylor Fritz in the US Open men’s singles final on Sunday (8 September).

The Italian has been in supreme form at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, dropping just one set so far in his quarter-final win over 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev.

Despite needing medical attention on his wrist after a fall during his semi-final victory over Great Britain’s Jack Draper, Sinner enters the final as the favourite.

Victory would mean a second career Slam for the 23-year-old, who won the Australian Open at the start of the year.

Sinner made the last four of the French Open, and the quarter-finals of Wimbledon, but missed the Paris 2024 Olympics with tonsillitis.

In his way at the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands Fritz, who will become the first American man in 15 years to contest a Grand Slam singles final.

Previously, the California native had never made it beyond the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam in four attempts.

But he eliminated Casper Ruud and Alexander Zverev in consecutive rounds before fighting back to beat compatriot Frances Tiafoe in five sets in the semi-finals.

Andy Roddick was the last American man to reach a Slam final, going down to Roger Federer in the 2009 US Open final. Roddick won the USA’s last men’s singles major at the 2003 US Open, defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero – now the coach of Carlos Alcaraz – in the final.

Fritz and Sinner have met twice before, both at Indian Wells. Fritz won their first encounter in straight sets in October 2021, but Sinner won the second in three sets in March 2023.