For 10 years nobody confirms champion in Ohio. Sinner could replicate the Maestro’s companies, and in a statistics even to overcome it …
The seventh Master 1000 of the season, the Western and Southern Open of Cincinnati, is a tournament that exudes history. Just scroll through the golden register to understand that it is a land of conquest for the best: Wilander, Sampras, Agassi, Federer, Djokovic … up to Sinner. Which arrives at the appointment of this year, where he will debut against the Czech Kopriva or the Colombian Galan, like the great favorite. And with the possibility of a brace that has been missing for 10 years.
Sinner and Roger
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Since the master triumphed in 2015 against Djokovic (last final won on the Serbian), repeating the success of 2014, nobody has been able to repeat himself in Ohio. More generally, in the 21st century Federer only defended the title successfully at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, in 2009-2010 and precisely in 2014-2015. Sinner could become the second since 2000, with also an extra statistical touch. In fact, since 1973, introduction of the computerized ranking, nobody has ever won the tournament for two years in a row from n.1 in the world. It would be yet another manifesto of Constance in the long run that only belonged to the great ones.
Nobody as Federer
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But to reach the other record of Federer the road is still long. The Swiss in fact holds the record of titles won in his “summer residence”, 7 between 2005 and 2015. Four more than Djokovic, who was instead the oldest winner with his 36 years and 84 days in 2023. The youngest remains Boris Becker, 17 years and 271 days in 1985. 27 years before one of the most sensational surprises of recent tennis. In 2022, in fact, Borna Coric triumphed in Cincinnati from n.152 in the world. Nobody ever won a 1000 with such a low ranking. A record, that yes, hardly beatable. And certainly not from Sinner.
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