It’s supposed to be the tournament where the year’s top eight players battle it out for one last prestigious trophy. Only this year it was hardly a contest at the ATP Finals.That's because Jannik Sinner’s game reached such a high level in Turin that his fellow competitors — all of them ranked in the top 10 — said “there’s nothing you can really do” because “he’s playing almost too good.

Jannik Sinner won the ATP Finals against Taylor Fritz in front of a home crowd. For a man who is still under a doping cloud, Sinner is hitting the cleanest winners.

TURIN, Italy — And so the year ends as it began, with Jannik Sinner’s arms around a big sliver trophy, making a mess of the competition and tennis history for his suddenly tennis-mad country.