Italian Open LIVE: Sinner eyeing Career Golden Masters in final against Ruud

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Sinner is looking to complete the Masters set
Sinner is looking to complete the Masters setLaPresse / Sipa USA / Profimedia / Flashscore

After Elina Svitolina lifted the trophy on the women's side of the draw yesterday, the men's final takes place today in Rome, as world number one and home favourite Jannik Sinner eyes history, with Norway's Casper Ruud standing in his way.

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.