World number one Jannik Sinner always makes people talk, both good and bad. The blue champion set a new record.
The last 12 months have been very important in Jannik Sinner’s career. The San Candido phenomenon finally found his consecration, won a Grand Slam title and became the first Italian tennis player to reach the top ranking position.
Exceptional performances, the number one title and the fundamental contribution in winning the Davis Cup, an achievement that Italy had been missing for half a century. It is still in everyone’s memory the challenge in the semifinals against Novak Djokovic where the Italian cancelled three match points and overturned a crazy challenge. In short, Sinner is writing the history of Italian tennis.
Nevertheless, there are always those who criticize him, and the recent decision to forfeit the Olympic Games due to tonsillitis has created great controversy. Many have criticized the Italian, guilty of not doing his best to participate in the event, and Jannik responded in kind in a recent conference by explaining that he could not even stand up at the time. Sinner meanwhile is among the stars in the Montreal Masters 1000, and it was in this Canadian event that he made history in the sport.
Jannik Sinner in history, staggering numbers
In the match valid for the Round of 16 in Montreal Sinner returned to the court against Croatian Borna Coric, an opponent not easy to play against anyway. Jannik easily closed the first set while he found some more difficulties in the second partial but in the end he got the pass to the next round with the result of 6-2;6-4. Sinner’s victory over Coric rewrote a record in tennis history, it has not happened in years and indeed Jannik did better even than Rafael Nadal.
When it comes to facing quite inferior tennis players on paper Jannik hardly fails and in fact Sinner became the youngest tennis player in history to reach 40 consecutive wins against tennis players outside the Top 20. Blue sometimes loses to comparisons with the big boys, but against athletes further back in the rankings he hardly misses. On all surfaces.
Sinner has won several tournaments in recent months and has found great continuity against tennis players further back in the rankings so much so that minor tournaments he has often dominated. One tweet testifies to the Italian’s crazy numbers:
40 – Defeating Borna Coric, Jannik Sinner (22y 357d) has become the youngest player to achieve 40 consecutive match wins against opponents ranked outside the ATP’s top 20 since Rafael Nadal – 22y 285d, Indian Wells 2009. Streak.OBN24 | @OBNmontreal @atptour @ATPMediaInfo pic. twitter.com/d5lrJpMkCX
– OptaAce (@OptaAce) August 8, 2024
