Jannik collects primates on primates. And the ranking smiles at the Azzurri
Record on record, never reached by an Italian and with few equal in the history of tennis. Jannik Sinner is rewriting history to the sound of incredible victories. The current number one in the world is the first Italian to win the singular title in Wimbledon and entered the very small club in the Open era to conquer three out of four Slam, together with Sampras, Connors, Lendl, Newcombe, Alcaraz, Wilander, Edberg, Becker, Wawrinka, Ashe, Vilas. The South Tyrolean has become i. This is his fifth participation and his 23 Slam in total: he has already collected 4 and on two different surfaces. With four Slam Sinner is, in the men’s field, the player who won more Major in Italy, in front of Nicola Pietrangeli and Adriano Panatta
Behind Pietrangeli
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Jannik is the 66th tennis player to have won Wimbledon in history, the 23rd in the Open era. With twenty wins at the Championships it is already the second Italian to achieve this result, behind Pietrangeli with 29. 81 Slam victories in total for Jannik, second Italian in the story behind Pietrangeli (94) Sinner has become the sixth player of the Open era to record a record of 4 finals of a singular of a Grand Slam, after Andre Agassi, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rod Laver. Rafael Nadal, the eleventh to reach the final in all 4 tournaments after Agassi, Jim Courier, Djokovic, Stefan Edberg, Federer, Laver, Ivan Lendl, Andy Murray, Nadal and Ken Rosewall.
third of all time
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At 23th presence in a Slam, Sinner reached the third final in the last 4 weeks, third of all time behind Courier and Agassi, who completed the series of finals of the Grand Slam respectively in their 19th and 22nd participation. Completing the Slam finals to his sixth appearance in a Major since he reached his first final at the 2024 Australian Open, Sinner thus established the record of the Open era for the shortest detachment between the first final and the Slam that served him to reach them all, only six, beating the previous primacy that belonged to Courier. But there is more.
20 Titles Total
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With the fourth major conquered in his career Jannik equals legends such as Jim Courier, Guillermo Vilas and Ken Rosewall, who, however, boasts four other titles won before 1968. Now, on the Highche bulletin board there is only Roland Garros is missing to complete what would be the Career Grand Slam, the victory of all four most important tournaments in the world, a milestone reached by eight tennis players alone In the entire history of tennis: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andre Agassi, Rod Lavener, Fred Perry, Donald Budge and Roy Emerson. Among the players in activity, at an altitude of 20 titles, Sinner reaches Medvedev and stands in fourth overall behind Novak Djokovic (100) Alexander Zverev (24) Alcaraz and Marin Cilic (21).
Italy, what a ranking!
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The incredible moment of Italian tennis is also certified by the ranking. Jannik aside, undisputed number 1, in today’s new ATP ranking, Monday 14 July, we find three blues in the first winds in the world. It is the first time that Italy can boast two top 10 and a top 20, Lorenzo Musetti walks at number 7 and Flavio Cobolli, who with the quarterfinals reached in Wimbledon, has risen in nineteenth position, his best ranking. There were three Italians among the first twenty players in the world (Sinner, Musetti and Berrettini), but never with two blues in Top 10 and one in Top 20.
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