The incredible winning strip of Jannik interrupted by Bublik in Halle: only Alcaraz had managed to beat him this year and from 66 games he did not lose by a player outside the top 10
Halle defeat against Alexandr Bublik interrupts several winning strips by Jannik Sinner, all incredible. The number one in the world did not lose before the quarter -finals of 19 consecutive tournaments, to be exact from Shanghai 2023, when he beat him in the round of 16 was Ben Shelton. In the following Masters 1000, in Paris, Jannik did not arrive in the quarterfinals, but for retreat. Sinner did not lose so early in a tournament – today in Halle he was on the field for the second round – from August 16, 2023, when he was defeated by Dusan Lajovic.
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For Sinner there is also the strip of eight consecutive finals (from the defeat to the quarterfinals against Andrey Rublev in Montreal 2024) and also that of the 66 games in a row with victories against tennis players outside the Top 20: Bublik, his “executioner” in Halle (as in 2023, when, however, Jannik was forced to retire), is currently 45 in the world, even if the player’s technical value is Hugely better than his ranking, but Alexandr has never been very continuous so far. Kazakh is the only player who managed to defeat Sinner in 2025 other than Alcaraz, and, apart from the Spaniard, he is the first after Rublev from the Canadian 1000 from August 2024. Exceptional numbers that once again demonstrated how incredible the last 20 months of the number one in the world have been. The series of consecutive Slam finals remains open, for now at 3: won a US Open and Australian Open, lost at Roland Garros from Alcaraz on June 8.