Jannik Sinner

[Damian]

06.05.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 262

[Damian]

Rzym'19: Jannik staje się 10 najmłodszym graczem, który wygrywa mecz w cyklu M-1000.

Jannik Sinner d. Steve Johnson 1-6 6-1 7-5

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[Razing]

[Barty]

Italy's Sinner, 17, Already Knows His Advantage Over Tsitsipas

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#NextGenATP Italian looking for back-to-back upsets in Rome
Count quick thinking among the many talents of 17-year-old Jannik Sinner, the Italian who energised his home fans by upsetting American Steve Johnson on Sunday at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome.

Barely an hour after his come-from-behind 1-6, 6-1, 7-5 win, the #NextGenATP Italian was already pointing out the strategic advantage he holds over his second-round opponent, World No. 7 and Mutua Madrid Open finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas. But that's not to say he was particularly looking forward to the meeting.

“Yeah, Stefanos next. Ha, ha,” Sinner said before sighing and pausing. “The good thing is that I know him, and he doesn't know me.”

The Italian burst into a giddy laugh, the chuckle you'd expect from a baby-faced teenager having the best day of his life so far.

Two months ago, Sinner, then-No. 546 in the ATP Rankings, was becoming the youngest Italian to win an ATP Challenger Tour title in Bergamo. On Sunday, the teenager with an all-around game was the subject of selfie and autograph requests from everyone within reach in Rome.

“For Italians here, it's pretty important. It's the biggest tournament in Italy. So it's never easy to play with such a big crowd,” Sinner said. “I'm very happy... They pushed me a lot in difficult situations, and I'm very proud of them, and let's see how the tournament will go.”

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Sinner broke Johnson as he attempted to serve out the match at 5-4 in the third to bring Campo Centrale to life on day one of Italy's ATP Masters 1000 event.

The Italian, now No. 263, had watched videos of Johnson's matches before and had decided to attack the American's weaker backhand side to open up his forehand wing. The tactic carried him in the second and third sets.

“I think I tried to do it even in the first set, sometimes maybe I rushed a little bit too much. But anyways I'm very proud that I could get the situation under control,” he said.

These are high times for Italian tennis, thanks to Sinner and a few of his countrymen. Fabio Fognini, 31, became the first Italian since Nicola Pietrangeli in 1968 to win the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, and the Sanremo native is one place away from cracking the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings, a feat that hasn't been accomplished by an Italian since Corrado Barazzutti on 22 January 1979.

Roman Matteo Berrettini, only 23, won his second ATP Tour title last month at the Hungarian Open and hit a new career-high ATP Ranking of No. 31 last week. Another Italian closer to Sinner's generation, Lorenzo Sonego of Turin, also 23, reached a career-high of No. 66 last month.


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Asked if his Italian peers are inspiring him, Sinner said, “Yes, a lot, because I think every Italian wants to play here in Rome, and every Italian wants to be on a very high level. And I think we push each other.”

The competitive feelings extend to his #NextGenATP Canadian peers – Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov – as well. “They are doing a great job, especially Felix this year... I'm very happy that I can be with them here in Rome, even in Monte-Carlo, I was practising with them. I've still a lot to learn, but first of all I am proud that I can play with them,” Sinner said.

On top of all that for Italy, in two years, the country will have three of the biggest ATP Tour events on the calendar: the Rome Masters 1000 event and, the final two events to end the season in November, the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan and the ATP Finals in Turin, which moves there from London for a five-year stint, starting in 2021.

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But Sinner is focused on his tennis, not the Next Gen ATP Finals just yet, although he's 14th in the ATP Race To Milan, which will determine seven of the eight players who compete at the 21-and-under event.

The teenager grew up in South Tyrol, a duo-language region made up of northeast Italy and southwest Austria, and an area known for its skiing, not its forehands.

Sinner could have easily become an aspiring Olympic skier. He was an Italian competitive skiing champion in 2008 and finished second place in 2012, and had mixed feelings about tennis, quitting at the age of seven, about 2009, but coming back to the sport – and enjoying it once more – one year later.

At 14, he started training with Riccardo Piatti, the former coach of Milos Raonic, Ivan Ljubicic and Richard Gasquet, among others, and one of the current coaches for Borna Coric.

“At the end I decided tennis,” Sinner said. “Skiing for me was not that long. You can just go for two minutes or something like that. I like playing more, and I decided tennis because I enjoyed it more.”

From skiing – and tennis – he learned how to master pressure, a feeling he looked free of on Sunday. But it's a sensation he might know well should a third set against Tsitsipas arise later this week.

“He plays pretty aggressive,” Sinner said. “I have to try to play my best tennis, which is not easy against him, but I think I can do a great job out there.”

Did You Know?
At this time last year, Sinner was ranked No. 1,480 in the ATP Rankings.

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[Damian]

ATP Rzym R2:

227 Tim Smyczek 216
228 Jannik Sinner 215
229 Enzo Couacaud 214

[DUN I LOVE]

Jannik z powodzeniem przeszedł kwalifikacje do turnieju ATP w Lyonie i zagra w turnieju głównym.

Kolejny skok w rankingu stał się faktem. Czas zaatakować Top-200 teraz.

[Damian]

20.05.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 229

[Damian]

[DUN I LOVE]

W Lyonie się nie powiodło, ale wpadną grosze za przejście kwali. Niby to niewiele, ale zanosi się na skok w górę o blisko 15 miejsce. W tej chwili Jannik jest 215 w żywym rankingu.

[Barty]

27.05.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 215

[DUN I LOVE]

Przeszedł kwale w Holandii i zagra w MD 's-Hertogenbosch.

[Damian]

17.06.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 209

[Damian]

15.07.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 208

[Damian]

#NextGenATP Sinner, 17, Shines In Umag Opener

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Bedene upsets Cecchinato
One year ago, Jannik Sinner was No. 1,160 in the ATP Rankings. Now 17 years old, the #NextGenATP Italian is knocking on the door of the Top 200, and the World No. 208 moved closer to reaching that benchmark on Monday with a 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory against Portugual’s Pedro Sousa in the first round of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.

Sinner has been a breakthrough #NextGenATP star in 2019, becoming the first player born in 2001 or later to win an ATP Challenger Tour title, doing so as a wild card in Bergamo, Italy, in February. He then made a winning ATP Tour debut in Budapest as a lucky loser, and claimed his first ATP Masters 1000 match win in Rome.

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The Italian’s triumph against Sousa was his third tour-level victory. Sinner won just three return points in the first set and was broken twice. But he would break the Portuguese four times in the next two sets to advance to the second round after one hour and 43 minutes.

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Sinner, who also qualified in Lyon and ’s-Hertogenbosch, will try to reach his first ATP Tour quarter-final against Slovenian Aljaz Bedene, who upset fifth seed Marco Cecchinato 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 20 minutes. Cecchinato, the defending champion, lost just one set en route to the 2018 title on the Croatian clay.

In other action, Czech Jiri Vesely battled past German Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 7-6(5), 3-6, 7-6(2) after three hours and two minutes. Vesely will play eighth seed Leonardo Mayer or Spaniard Pablo Andujar.

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[Kamileki]

ATP Umag R2:

192 Ramkumar Ramanathan 264
193 Jannik Sinner 259
194 Maxime Janvier 258

[arti]

22.07.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 199

[DUN I LOVE]

Po Umagu przyszedł czas na lot za Ocean i próbę sił w tamtejszych chalkach. Ciekawe, co z tego wyniknie, bo obsada tych turniejów bardzo słaba. Oby się godnie przywitał z Top-200.

[Kamileki]

Ch Binghamton R2:

193 Steve Darcis 266
194 Jannik Sinner 266
195 Donald Young 265

[Damian]

29.07.2019

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 194

[Kamileki]

CH Lexington R3:

187 Ruben Bemelmans 276
188 Jannik Sinner 273
189 Jay Clarke 273