Jannik Sinner has achieved a new extraordinary milestone, which not even Novak Djokovic had ever managed to cut. The young Italian won a very complicated match yesterday against Tomas Martin Etcheverry: the Italian went one set behind, losing the tie break against the Argentine, but with great determination he managed to overturn the result.
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A very important victory that not only allows him to access the 4th round at theShanghai Rolex Masters, matching last year's placing, but also to keep a truly impressive record active. Jannik has a sensational streak of victories against tennis players below the top-20 of the ATP rankingthat only very few tennis players have had: the Italian is at 53 wins.
Roger Federer leads this special statistic, closely followed by Rafael Nadal. The Swiss Maestro managed, in the 2005/2006 years, to string together 76 consecutive victories against the top 20.
In 2010/2012 he improved further, bringing this score to 77. Behind him Rafa with 69 successes in 2019/2021 and 54 in 2008/2009. Coincidentally Novak Djokovic does not hold a record in this ranking, but must settle for seventh, eighth, and ninth place, with 49, 47, 47, behind the Italian tennis player.
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Sinner on the ATP schedule issue
The controversies and criticisms related to the ATP schedule continue to be one of the main topics on the Tour.
Jannik himself talked about it in a press conference in Shanghai: "We have a lot of tournaments, that's for sure. It would be ideal if there was no Davis Cup after the ATP Finals. I think that's definitely something I would change in the program," said the ATP No.1, who then added: "The rest we can still choose as players, if I play in Beijing or if I play here. I feel like this season we chose the tournaments, there was no problem in that sense. We have the Masters 1000 series which is mandatory but, for example, I could choose whether to play in Beijing before a Masters or not."
