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This season will be remembered for various reasons in world tennis, but it should always be immediately associated with a challenge to history by Jannik Sinner. The Italian can further enhance the resonance of his performance this season if he becomes champion of the ATP Rolex París Masters 2024as he would become the fourth tennis player to finish a year with four Masters 1000 titles.
Playing 71 games and having lost only 6 is a challenge to logic and an endorsement to think that we are in the forging of a legend by Jannik Sinner. Even more so when we realize that he is only 23 years old and is competing under enormous pressure due to that possible doping sanction that hangs over him like a disturbing threat. There are few big events left to be played, but the Italian has reasons to face the next one full of motivation since he could equal a historical record of the Big 3.
And since in 1990 a calendar was established with a structure comparable to the current one and the category of tournaments Masters 1000 (although its nomenclature has been changing), only ten players managed to win 3 titles of this caliber during the same season. Sinner is part of that privileged list after his performances this year in Miami, Cincinnati and Shanghai. It is not a trivial matter to match what Edberg, Sampras, Agassi, Muster, Ríos, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray achieved, but the one from San Candido wants more.
📝 Tennis players with three 🏆 Masters 1000s during one season (1990-2024/Men’s Singles):
🇸🇪 Stefan Edberg
🇺🇸 Pete Sampras
🇺🇸 Andre Agassi
🇦🇹 Thomas Muster
🇨🇱 Marcelo Ríos
🇨🇭 Roger Federer
🇪🇸 Rafa Nadal
🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic
🇬🇧 Andy Murray
🇮🇹 Jannik Sinner pic.twitter.com/b8wflBtcS1— MisterOnly.Tennis (@OnlyRogerCanFly) October 13, 2024
There is one bullet left in the chamber to increase his record and challenge history, because only three players have finished a season as champions of four titles. Masters 1000 during it. A success within reach Big 3 that Sinner sets out to conquer in the ATP Rolex París Masters 2024where last year they had to retire without playing the quarterfinals and where they will seek to win a new great title.
– These are the seasons in which a member of the Big 3 won 4 or more Masters 1000 titles
Roger Federer, in 2005: Indian Wells, Miami, Hamburg and Cincinnati
Roger Federer, in 2006: Indian Wells, Miami, Canada and Madrid
Novak Djokovic, in 2011: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome and Canada
Rafael Nadal, in 2013: Indian Wells, Madrid, Rome, Canada and Cincinnati
Novak Djokovic, in 2014: Indian Wells, Miami, Rome and Paris
Novak Djokovic, in 2015: Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Rome, Shanghai, Paris
Novak Djokovic, in 2016: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Canada
