Only 5 tennis players have won more matches than Jannik Sinner in the first 20 matches of the year. In the Open Era only five tennis players managed to win more matches than Jannik Sinner in the first 20 matches of the year.
In fact, the young Italian has only one defeat in this first part of 2024, which came in the Indian Wells semi-final against his rival Carlos Alcaraz.
For the rest only victories, spread between the Australian Open, Rotterdam (both tournaments won), Indian Wells (until the semi-final against the Spaniard) and the Miami Open, where he reached the semi-finals and will challenge Daniil Medvedev tomorrow.
Rafael Nadal achieved this goal in the overwhelming start of 2022, Novak Djokovic in 2011 and 2020, Ivan Lendl in 1986, John McEnroe in 1984 and Bjorn Borg in 1980. The Italian’s start to the year, put in relation to these great tennis players of the past and still of the present, it is of great value.
19 – In the Open Era, only 5 players have won more matches than Jannik Sinner (19) in their first 20 of a calendar year:
Rafael Nadal 2⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣
Novak Djokovic 2⃣0⃣1⃣1⃣ ➕ 2⃣0⃣2⃣0⃣
Ivan Lendl 1⃣9⃣8⃣6⃣
John McEnroe 1⃣9⃣8⃣4⃣
Bjorn Borg 1⃣9⃣8⃣0⃣Aristocracy.#MiamiOpen | @MiamiOpen pic.twitter.com/XPfh9o8BRT
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