{"id":17241,"date":"2026-05-17T18:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/17241\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:57:47","slug":"jannik-sinner-breaks-novak-djokovics-atp-masters-1000-title-record-with-italian-open-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/17241\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner breaks Novak Djokovic\u2019s ATP Masters 1000 title record with Italian Open win"},"content":{"rendered":"

When in Rome, Jannik Sinner<\/a> wins tennis matches \u2014 just as he has been doing everywhere else of late.<\/p>\n

With a 6-4, 6-4 win over Casper Ruud in the Italian Open<\/a> final Sunday, Sinner became the second player, and the youngest, to win all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, the men\u2019s events one rung below the four Grand Slams. Sinner is 24. Novak Djokovic, the only other player to do it, completed the set when he was 31.<\/p>\n

Sinner\u2019s triumph over Ruud, a two-time French Open finalist, takes the world No. 1\u2019s win streak at ATP Masters 1000 events<\/a> to 34, and his win streak in all competitions<\/a> to 29. This was far closer than their meeting in Rome 12 months ago, when Sinner eviscerated the Norwegian 6-0, 6-1, but the outcome rarely felt in doubt, even as Ruud broke Sinner\u2019s serve at the first attempt to lead 2-0 in the opening set.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not perfect tennis from both of us, but I\u2019m really, really happy. Incredible last two-and-a-half months,\u201d Sinner said in his on-court interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot every day is simple, but I\u2019m really, really happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2022, when Ruud lost to Rafael Nadal in a one-sided French Open final and then to 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz at the U.S. Open, his game has been widely pigeonholed as lacking aggressiveness, when in reality, other players can simply hit the ball harder than him. Sinner is one of them, and while Ruud\u2019s serve and forehand \u2014 the two pillars of his play \u2014 did damage on occasion, his backhand is not in the same weight class as the Italian\u2019s, especially crosscourt.<\/p>\n

Ruud was also reticent to take the shot down the line, because it risked leaving himself exposed against Sinner\u2019s forehand. Still, it was ultimately feel that led to the Norwegian losing the opening set, with Sinner winning three points behind drop shots in the ninth game to break for 5-4. When he broke Ruud\u2019s serve again to open the second set, inevitability set in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you\u2019re doing this year is hard to describe in words,\u201d Ruud said to Sinner during the trophy ceremony.<\/p>\n

With an inside-out forehand that nicked the sideline (and followed a far more emphatic inside-in forehand which deserved to clinch the match), Sinner moved to 36-2 in 2026, won his sixth consecutive ATP Masters 1000 title, and further entrenched himself as the runaway favorite for the French Open, which starts May 24.<\/p>\n

As the \u201cOl\u00e9, ol\u00e9 ol\u00e9 ol\u00e9 Sinner, Sinner\u201d chants rang around the Foro Italico, Sinner took in the acclaim after making yet another piece of men\u2019s tennis history. Such is his understatement that the greatness of what he is doing must not be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When in Rome, Jannik Sinner wins tennis matches \u2014 just as he has been doing everywhere else of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-17241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-italy","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}