2024-06-06 09:50:59
PARIS. It was the February 12, 2018 when a sixteen 12 months previous Jannik Sinner gained his first ATP level, beating the Indian in an ITF event in Sharm el-Sheikh Aryan Goveas. On the Pink Sea, within the winter of the nice and cozy holidays liked by Italians, the South Tyrolean wrote his identify on this planet rankings: occupied place 1592. Since then the unstoppable climb of the primary Italian tennis participant to occupy the highest. On August 27 of the identical 12 months Jannik entered the highest 1000 on this planet (891) due to his first ITF ultimate. The event is the Italy F23 of Santa Caterina Valgardena. Sinner misplaced the singles ultimate in opposition to the German Peter Heller, however gained in doubles, together with his peer and good friend from Trieste Giacomo Dambrosi. One other two months and extra factors earned: on 15 October the Italian is n.778, due to the spherical of 16 on the Challenger in Ortisei the place he gained his first match on this class in opposition to Giacomini.
At Christmas the proficient Sinner is already n.551. On 25 February 2019 the ATP rating says 324, due to the success on the Challenger in Bergamo which earned the younger man from Sesto Pusteria a bounce of 222 positions in a single week. On April 29, his entry into the highest 300 on this planet was the results of his first profession victory on the ATP circuit, in Budapest. After passing the {qualifications}, he defeats the Hungarian Mate Valkusz within the first spherical. He misplaced within the second spherical to the Serbian Laslo Djere (then n.33) and Jannik rose to place quantity 298. On 22 July 2019 the Italian was n.199: due to the factors within the second spherical on the ATP 250 in Umag, which got here after the ultimate on the Challenger in Ostrava and the primary match gained in a Masters 1000 on the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, Sinner enters the highest 200 for the primary time. The rise continues: on 28 October, three months and per week later, Sinner enters the magic circle of the highest 100 on this planet. He goes as much as no. 93 after his first-round success over German Philipp Kohlschreiber (no. 79 on the time) within the first spherical of the ATP 500 in Vienna. On 12 October 2020 he’s the no. 46 on this planet: however the race slows down within the meantime as a result of Covid pandemic which stops the whole lot for months, after which as a result of the ATP has determined to permit gamers to make use of the factors obtained in tournaments for 2 years, and never for the traditional 52 weeks. In any case Jannik enters the Prime 50 after his first Slam quarterfinal, at Roland Garros, moved to autumn as a result of pandemic. Similar 12 months, November 16, he’s #37.
The primary ATP title arrives in Sofia with the success within the ultimate over Vasek Pospisil. 2021 greets Sinner’s entry into the highest 30, with the primary ultimate in a Masters 1000 misplaced in Miami in opposition to his good friend Hubert Hurkacz: on April fifth he’s n.23 and on the nineteenth of the identical month he takes one other step ahead after Monte Carlo and enters the highest 20 (he’s n.19). On November 1st he’s among the many high 10: after the semi-final in Vienna, the knockout in opposition to Frances Tiafoe, Sinner is n.9 (he’s the fifth Italian to take action within the period of computerized rankings). On April 10, 2023 the rating says n.8. 2022 is a season of adjustment, however from 2023 he resumes the race and after the ultimate misplaced in Miami he positive factors one other place. On August 14 he completed in sixth place, after successful his first title in a Masters 1000, in Toronto. On 2 October, after the title in Beijing, he was quantity 4 and equaled the very best rating of Adriano Panatta, as much as that time the Italian with the very best rating. Sinner steps onto the rostrum on 19 February 2024, precisely six years after his first ATP factors. Jannik is not any.3 on this planet, and is thus the primary Italian to achieve this place after the victory in Rotterdam.
In the whole historical past of tennis solely Nicola Pietrangeli had been quantity 3 on this planet, within the rankings drawn up on the finish of the season for the highest gamers, in 1959 and 1960.
Final April 1st with the triumph on the Masters 1000 in Miami, Sinner is n.2 on this planet. June 4, 2004: the date that makes historical past. Djokovic withdraws from Roland Garros, the Serbian wanted to achieve the ultimate to keep away from overtaking, and Sinner is #1 on this planet regardless. On the tenth the ATP rating will set up the brand new rating. In six years the younger Jannik has turn into what Italian tennis has at all times dreamed of.
(picture Ansa Afp)
2024-06-06 09:50:59