A record year 2024 and new challenges

Jannik Sinner has just completed a record year in 2024, but is already focused on next year. The Italian tennis player has become world number one in the ATP rankings and was able to defend this position until the end of the year, achieving important results and benefiting from the setbacks of his high-profile rivals such as Alcaraz and Djokovic.

Sinner about the Clostebol case: “I saw the darkness, felt lost. At Wimbledon I was as white as a ghost.”

No Sanremo: Sinner’s announcement

Jannik Sinner was interviewed by Chiambretti for the SuperTennis Awards 2024. The Italian denied his alleged participation in the Sanremo festival: “No, I’m not going because I have better things to do.”

Sinner will take part in the ATP 500 in Doha: the announcement

Jannik Sinner will take part in the Qatar ExxonMobil Open 2025. This was announced by the Qatar Tennis Federation on its website. «The tournament, now upgraded to an ATP 500 event, will take place from February 17th to 22nd at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, with the participation of some of the sport’s biggest stars. A dominant force in men’s tennis, Sinner cemented his place in history with an exceptional 2024 season. At just 23 years old, he has won eight titles, including historic victories at the Australian Open and US Open, and became the first Italian to win two Grand Slam tournaments. He ended the year with his first ATP Finals title and secured three prestigious ATP Masters 1000 titles in Miami, Cincinnati and Shanghai, further cementing his reputation as one of the brightest stars of modern tennis,” the federation concludes. Rashid Al-Hajri, Vice President and Manager of Public and Government Affairs at ExxonMobil Qatar: “We are pleased to welcome Jannik Sinner, world number 1, to the Qatar ExxonMobil Open 2025, now an ATP500 event. Jannik’s remarkable talent and unwavering determination bring an inspiring energy to this year’s tournament and we look forward to seeing him showcase his skills on the court in Doha. As a major sponsor, ExxonMobil Qatar is proud to partner with the Qatar Tennis Federation to create an exceptional experience for fans and players.”

Jannik Sinner’s Calendar 2025

Jannik Sinner will make his 2025 debut at Opening Week, taking place from January 7th to 10th at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena. It is a charity exhibition tournament that will be held at the Rod Laver Arena, in which Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Qinwen Zheng, Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin will also take part. His official calendar currently includes:

• AUSTRALIAN OPEN (Slam) – From January 12th to 26th, 2025
• ROTTERDAM (ATP 500) – From February 1st to 9th, 2025
• DOHA (ATP 500) – From February 17 to 23, 2025

His record year 2024

Sinner is the first player to have both in the same year ATP Finals as well as that Davis Cup won as number one in the world. He won a set in each of the 79 matches played (73 wins), as he had only done before Roger Federer in 2005 and Serena Williams achieved in 2013. Statistics that tell of a magical 2024 in which it was really difficult to defeat him. Alcaraz needed 3 hours and 24 minutes in the final in Beijing, Medvedev 5 sets and 4 hours in Wimbledon. The South Tyrolean never gives up. This is how the successes came from them Australian Open up to the US Openwhereby he follows Nicola Pietrangeli became the second Italian to win two Slams in one year. Not to be forgotten are the Masters 1000 (Shanghai, Cincinnati and Miami) and the 500s (Halle, Rotterdam).

Sinner’s prize money

Sinner earned $16,914,035 this year by winning 8 titles. The Davis Cup has no prize money, only the honor and pride of an entire nation. Added to this are the 5.5 million Six Kings Slamthe exhibition tournament in Riyadh won in October. Sinner’s total income this year is staggering: around 21.5 million euros.

When will WADA’s verdict come?

The doping question remains open as the final verdict is still pending. The points and prize money from Indian Wellsthe tournament that is under observation Clostebol was removed, but nothing more was said after that. Sinner has put the last few months into words from this perspective: “I always think about it a little bit. We have already had three hearings, all of them went well and I have confidence that the next one will be the same. I had ups and downs on a human level, sometimes my heart was broken. Life throws you challenges and you need to know how to resist. I worked perfectly together for the first three hearings and it went well, we’ll see how the fourth goes.” The decision of the WADA becomes after February 11th expected.

The risk of disqualification

Die WADA as the International Anti-Doping Agency could within 21 days of notification of the HATE-Appeal decision to CAS. The intention was only to identify the existence of possible negligence Sinner to determine, whereby it was implicitly ruled out that he had taken the substance intentionally. Sinner already made a move some time ago by revolutionizing his team and Giacomo Naldi and Umberto Ferrarawho were his physical therapist and his fitness trainer, fired. The first would have been involved in the massage, which could have tested the Italian tennis player positive due to the treatment of the finger wound.

Even after the Davis Cup, the South Tyrolean expressed himself with words that sounded like a clear indication of the importance of the people in his team: “It is important for me to have people around me who know what I am like. That’s what allows me to continue playing at this level.” The former tennis player Omar Camporese commented opposite MowMag: «I hope you see it like us, it was a superficial thing and nothing was done intentionally. We are faced with total innocence, it was just bad luck.”