By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday October 30, 2023
October has been an excellent month for Jannik Sinner and Italian tennis.
The 22-year-old began this month by rising a career-high rating of No.4 within the ATP rankings, matching the perfect rating by an Italian man in historical past. Sinner, who equalled Adriano Panatta’s rating from August of 1976, turned the highest-ranked Italian Man in 47 years, however he wasn’t carried out.
Over the weekend in Vienna, the place Sinner claimed his tenth profession title by defeating Daniil Medvedev within the ultimate, Sinner clicked two extra milestones making it a trifecta for the proficient carrot high.
First, he handed Corrado Barazzutti to turn into the Italian with essentially the most wins in a single season. Barazzutti received 54 matches in 1978 and since then the file has stood amongst Italian males. Sinner, who completed the week with a 56-14 file, now owns that spectacular file.
But wait, there’s extra!
Sinner is certainly one of three Italian males to ever win greater than 50 matches in a single season, and he might quickly be the primary to hit the 60-win mark.
By profitable his tenth ATP title on Sunday, Sinner additionally strikes right into a tie for essentially the most titles received by an Italian man in Open Era historical past. He strikes right into a impasse with Panatta and passes Fabio Fognini.
Roll of Honour 📜🇮🇹@janniksin – 10 🏆
Panatta – 10
Fognini – 9
Berrettini – 7
Barazzutti – 5
Seppi – 3@ErsteBankOpen | #erstebankopen pic.twitter.com/VdAn289EmB— ATP Tour (@atptour) October 29, 2023
Sinner heads to Paris for this week’s Paris Masters the place he’ll face both JJ Wolf or Mackenzie McDonald in second-round motion.
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