Posted by Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday November 17, 2024
Jannik Sinner’s sensational 2024 season came to an end on Sunday as the Italian made Davis Cup history, helping to send Italy to its second consecutive title.
The first week, Sinner made more history in Turin at the ATP Finals, where he became the first Italian to lift the trophy in the 55-year history of the prestigious end-of-season ATP tournament, and became the first player to win the ATP Finals without success. dropped one set since Ivan Lendl in 1986.
Now that the dust has settled, we take a look back at some of the 23-year-old’s most impressive statistical achievements, by the numbers.
73 – The number of wins set by Sinner this season, the most by any ATP player on tour since Andy Murray in 2016.
2 – Number of majors won by Sinner in 2024, Australian Open and US Open. Sinner became the first Italian to win a title since 1976 at this year’s Australian Open when he came from two sets down to defeat Daniil Medvedev in the final. At the US Open he became the first Italian man to take the title at Flushing Meadows.
1977 – By winning his two major titles in the same season, Sinner becomes the first player to achieve that feat since Guillermo Vilas in 1977.
38 – Number of years since a player reached an ATP final without dropping a single set. Sinner did something this week in Turin that even Novak Djokovic couldn’t achieve when he won seven ATP Finals titles.
Ivan Lendl was the last player to win the ATP Finals without dropping a set, in 1986.
3 – By winning titles at the Australian Open, US Open, and ATP Finals, Sinner joins Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as one of three players to have won that hard court trifecta.
2016 – Sinner is the first player to win an ATP Finals title on home soil since Andy Murray in 2016. He is the third player to win the prestigious title at home this century – Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt (2001) is the other.
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– TennisNow (@Tennis_Now) November 17, 2024
17 – Soni led all ATP Players in Top-10 wins in 2024; he won 18 of his matches against Top-10 players.
53-3 – Sinner’s impressive record on hard courts in 2024. Only Carlos Alcaraz (Indian Wells, Beijing and Andrey Rublev (Canada) beat Sinner in the face. Sinner is one of six players – with Medvedev, Djokovic, Federer, Roddick and Hewitt – to win 50 or more hard court matches in one season this century.
13-0 – Sinner went 10-0 on the indoor courts this year, bringing his career record to 73-21.
29-1 – Sinner won 29 of his last 30 matches, winning titles in Cincinnati, the US Open, Shanghai and Turin and losing in the Beijing final to Alcaraz.
8-1 – Sinner has won eight of his nine finals to improve his record in ATP finals to 18-5.
