Jannik Sinner wants to put the cherry on top of his season in the 2023 Davis Cup Finals, a tournament he faces with renewed energy and enthusiasm after his great performance in Turin. Proof of his excellent performance this year is the fact that he has joined the Big 3 in a statistic related to wins over top-5 players.
Evolve, grow as a tennis player, improve in all facets and know how to respond to a very high level of demand. That’s what it has proven Jannik Sinner this season what he is capable of doing. An insatiable worker and voracious competitor, the Italian faces the last tournament of the season, in the Davis Cup Finals 2023, with the feeling that he has done everything necessary to give himself opportunities to achieve glory very soon. It is impossible not to see Jannik as a possible Grand Slam champion next year, and even more so given his ability to perform excellently against the best in the world, irrefutable proof that he is destined for high levels of success. In this regard, the statistics that equate him with the Big 3in terms of wins over top-5 players in a season.
Finish the year in 4th place ranking ATP It is of impressive merit, but much more so for a 22-year-old tennis player who has had to overcome the bitterness of losing agonizing matches in Grand Slam. Tsitsipas, in the round of 16 of the Australian Open, Altmaier in the second round of Roland Garros and Zverev in the round of 16 of the US Open, cut short his hopes of advancing even further, but, above all, they gave the Italian a wealth of experiences from which he has Learned a lot. He has found a level of consistency with which he can beat the majority of players he is superior to, saving logical exceptions such as Korda, Fils, Musetti, Cerúndolo, the aforementioned Altmaier, Bublik, De Minaur, Lajovic or Shelton, most of them on clay, a surface on which he feels least comfortable. Accidents more than acceptable for a tennis player with a balance of 61-15 and four titles to his credit, including the Canadian Masters 1000.
– Sinner presents a tremendous favorable balance of 9-5 in clashes with top-5 rivals
However, the most exciting thing is to realize that, despite being in the process of maturing and making bold changes to his game, such as in the serving mechanics, Sinner has become a real nightmare for the rest of the team. members of the top-5. Of the 14 matches he has had this year against rivals ranked among the 5 best in the world at that time, the Italian emerged victorious in 9 of them, losing only in 5. Tsitsipas, Fritz, Alcaraz (on two occasions), Medvedev (on three times), Rublev and Djokovic succumbed to the increasingly complete and deadly tennis of this beast of the Alps.
It is not at all easy to accumulate so many wins against elite rivals who demand the maximum, as demonstrated by the fact that Jannik Sinner He is the fourth player in the 21st century to win more than nine games in the same season against top-5 rivals. Prepare this information well and automatically complete the question that arises from it to realize the feat of the Italian player. Yes, the others are Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. In fact, Sinner has achieved it at the age of 22, the same age as Nadal, who in 2008 recorded 9 wins against players ranked among the top five. In short, a tremendous endorsement to think that we may be facing a dominant player with the ability to do very important things in the world of tennis.
Players able to win 9+ matches vs. Top 5 in a single season since 2000
• Novak Djokovic
• Rafael Nadal
• Roger Federer
• Jannik Sinner
Nadal and Sinner the youngest ones among this group (22 years old)
What a season for Jannik… and still Davis Cup left! pic.twitter.com/0no3yFMSST
— Mario Boccardi (@marioboc17) November 19, 2023
2023-11-21 10:59:51
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