From the success in Montpellier to the semifinal already won in Miami: this is how Jannik has already achieved one of the objectives of the season
It wasn’t a very long run-up, indeed many imagined it much more complex and made up of obstacles. But no. Jannik Sinner at the end of March has already achieved one of his goals for 2023, that of returning to the top 10. A place he left at the beginning of October 2022, after entering it for the first time on November 1, 2021, and after continuous ups and downs last year.
The ascent
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This time, and the premises are all there, Sinner “threatens” to really stay there for quite some time, and on an ongoing basis, with an eye to more prestigious positions, the top 5 that everyone has been predicting for the blue for a few years. Merit of a stratospheric start to the season, with a tournament won (Montpellier), a final (Rotterdam), two semifinals (Indian Wells and Miami) and a quarterfinal at the Australian Open, which also propelled him to fifth place in the Race for the Finals in Turin (another great goal). After the defeat of Taylor Fritz by Carlos Alcaraz, the mathematical confirmation of the awaited return has also arrived. At the moment Sinner, in the real-time ranking, is at number 9, with 3105 points, 40 more than Fritz, tenth, who can no longer accumulate points between now and Monday, when the new official ATP ranking will be released.
The Russian Threat
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The only one who can unseat the 21-year-old blue from ninth place is Karen Khachanov who currently has 2855 points, who can surpass the blue if Sinner loses tonight against Alcaraz or even in the final and he manages to win the tournament, which would take him to 3495. even in sixth place in the standings. A prodigious leap. Difficult, sure, but not impossible. Same thing for Sinner, who would rise to sixth place in the event of a victory in Miami, while in the event of a final and Khachanov’s non-win he would still remain in ninth place, equaling his best ranking. In the history of the ATP, we recall, only 5 Azzurri players have managed to enter the top 10: Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Fabio Fognini, Matteo Berrettini and precisely Jannik Sinner. The best ranking is held by Panatta (who reached number 4), as well as the record concerning the best ATP ranking in singles at the end of the year, number 7 in 1976, equaled by Berrettini in 2021. Again the Roman, with Sinner, are were the only Italians to simultaneously occupy two places in the top 10, for the first time on November 1, 2021.
March 31 – 08:29
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