Sinner (right) and Berrettini. Getty Images Korea
Italy, played by world number one men’s tennis player Jannik Sinner, maintained its top spot in the Davis Cup, the national men’s tennis competition.
Italy won 2-0 against the Netherlands in the 2024 Davis Cup final held in Malaga, Spain on the 25th. Matteo Berrettini, who played first singles, defeated Botik Vanderjanjulf (80th), who played as the Netherlands’ ace in this tournament, 2-0 (6-4 6-2). Berrettini’s men’s professional tennis (ATP) tour singles ranking fell to 35th, but he won all 6 of his matches in this year’s Davis Cup.
Sinner won the second singles match by defeating Talon Griggspoor (40th) 2-0 (7-6 6-2). Italy, the defending champion, won the tournament for the third time in its history, following 1976 and 2023. Italy is enjoying a golden age by winning the Billy Jean King Cup, the women’s national tennis competition that ended on the 21st, and sweeping the men’s and women’s national competitions this year.
Sinner posed with the ATP Finals championship trophy and the year-end season rankings No. 1 trophy. Getty Images Korea
Sinner has a big presence this season. Sinner decorated the 2024 season perfectly with his season. Sinner, who won her first major title at this year’s Australian Open, rose to the top of the U.S. Open. In addition, he added three trophies in the 1000 series Masters competition, which is a level below the major competition, and two trophies in the 500 series competition. Just before the Davis Cup, he won the ATP Finals, the final match of the season in which the season’s ‘top 8’ players participate, and early on secured first place in the year-end rankings.
Sinner won 8 of his 18 wins this season. He earned $16,914,035 (about 23.6 billion won), which is more than half of the cumulative prize money of $33,989,584 (about 47.5 billion won).
Sinner, who left behind an amazing record of 73 wins and 6 losses in the season, followed in the footsteps of the ‘Emperor of Tennis’ Roger Federer (Switzerland, retired) in 2005, when his prime began. Sinner won more than one set in every match this season, the second record for a male player after Federer (85 matches) since 1968, when the open era began.
