Triumph and challenges in 2024

Jannik Sinner ends 2024 triumphantly. He became world number one in the ATP rankings and defended this position until the end of the year, achieving important results and exploiting the weaknesses of his higher-ranked rivals. Then there was that Davis Cupwhich was defended after the success of the previous year and made all of Italy rejoice. What does the future hold for the tennis player from South Tyrol? Let’s look at his coming months, between the pitch and the court in the doping case.

His magical year 2024

Sinner is the first player to do so ATP Finals and the Davis Cup wins as world number one in the same year. He has won a set in each of the 79 matches played (73 wins), which was previously only Roger Federer in 2005 and Serena Williams succeeded in 2013. Statistics that tell of a magical 2024 in which it was really difficult to beat 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 Grand Slams in one year. Not to be forgotten are the Masters 1000 (Shanghai, Cincinnati and Miami) and the 500s (Halle, Rotterdam).

His income

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 invitation tournament in Riyadh, which he won in October. In total, Sinner’s income this year amounts to around 21.5 million euros.

When does Sinner play the next tournament?

The year 2024 from Jannik Sinner ended with success Davis Cup. Now there are rest days on the agenda for him, which could follow the pattern of last season. Ten days break, a short resumption in Spain to train in the warm, and then a longer break at Christmas to recharge the batteries and spend quality time with the family. So his fans will have to wait until 2025 to see him on the pitch again. The first official engagement will be the Australian Open which he will contest as reigning champion with the honor of defending the title. It was exactly there, when he defeated Medvedev in the final, who had been his feared opponent until then, that his rise to the top of the ATP rankings began. Before that, there is the very real possibility of the Kooyong Classic, a hard-court invitational tournament in the week before the Australian Open.

When will the verdict come?

The question of doping remains, for which the final verdict is still pending. The points and prize money from Indian Wellsthe tournament, because of Clostebol under surveillance, were withdrawn, but nothing more was said after that. Sinner looked back on his last few months from this perspective: “I always think about it a little bit. We have already had three hearings, all of which have gone well, and I am confident 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 cooperated perfectly with the first three hearings and it went well, we will see how the fourth goes.” The decision of the WADA is expected for January or February at the latest.

Why is he threatened with a ban?

Die Wada as the International Anti-Doping Agency was able to appeal to the CAS within 21 days of the ITIA decision being announced. The intention was to establish only the existence of possible negligence on the part of Sinner, implicitly excluding the possibility that he had intentionally ingested the substance. Sinner has been moving around for some time now and turning his team around by Giacomo Naldi and Umberto Ferrarawho were his physiotherapist and fitness trainer. The first is said to have been involved in the massage that would have tested the Italian tennis player positive due to the treatment of the finger injury.

Even after the Davis Cup, the South Tyrolean expressed himself with words that seemed to have a clear connection to 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 on MowMag: “I hope they 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.”