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Jannik Sinner is, without a doubt, the best player of the year 2024. His last title in the ATP Finals 2024 It allowed him to add a new card to a sensational collection that is a testament to his evolution as a player and competitor. The year that has allowed him to enter the Olympus of tennis with full force hides some records of supreme importance, sometimes placing him at the level of names that make up, neither more nor less, the Big Three.
His last triumph in Turin, in fact, left several impressive marks on its own. The Italian won the Masters Cup in an overwhelming way, without giving up a single set along the way, emphasizing its manifest superiority on hard indoor courts. This is already a record in itself: only Ivan Lendl in the year 1986 He had managed to be crowned in this way, counting all his duels for victories in straight sets. Not only that: Jannik can also boast of having won the ATP Finals with the fewest number of games lost throughout the entire tournament. He just gave in 33 gamessurpassing the 34 of McEnroe (1978) and Lendl (1987).
In a significant year for statistics, without the Big Three conquering Grand Slams, those in charge of writing a new golden page in tennis history had to get in shape. In some way the numbers also mark a change of era, and Jannik Sinner’s season bears witness to this. At the ATP level (and with the possibility of improving records through the Davis Cup), Sinner ends his season with a winning percentage of 92%after finding success in 70 matches and only losing 6. It is the best percentage of victories since Djokovic signed an unforgettable 2015 that ended with just over 93% of victories.
INDISCUTABLE… EVEN IN DEFEATS
There are data, however, much more spectacular. Especially one that attests to the regularity, perseverance and ability to not lower the piston on the part of San Candido. At the ATP level, and in the absence of the Davis Cup being able to take away this milestone, Jannik will end his season having won at least a set in each match that disputed; That is, he has not suffered a single defeat in straight sets. To find such a calendar year we must go back to 2005. Roger Federerthe only one to achieve this record in the Open Era: as a curiosity, the historic 1984 of John McEnroe He was left out due to a late defeat in the Davis Cup final against the Swede Sundstrom, a circumstance that the Italian, in what would be a curious twist of fate, could also experience.
Finally, it is time to illustrate one of the phrases at the beginning of this article. Why does Jannik Sinner sit at the Big Three table? It has equaled two of its most illustrious members in a record that only they shared: Novak Djokovic (2015, 2023) and Roger Federer (2004, 2006, 2007) were the only tennis players to have achieved the three largest cement stocks in a calendar year…until Sinner joined him after triumphing at the Australian Open, US Open and ATP Finals.
They are numbers that shape and reward the tremendous work done off the court. The work of a man obsessed with this sport, a guy who finds the balance between risk/margin like very few others and who has experienced a meteoric evolution in just 15 months. Only time will tell us if, in future seasons, Jannik Sinner will force us to write more articles of this type.
