Jannik Sinner has become only the sixth player aged 23 or under to win 60 or more matches on the ATP Tour in consecutive seasons in the past two decades.
Born August 16, 2001, the Italian has joined the exclusive club of players to achieve the 60-match win milestone two years in a row with the Big Three of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer also featuring on the list.
The six players are also Grand Slam champions and they have topped the ATP Rankings at some point in their careers.
The 6 men aged 23 or under to achieve 60+ ATP match wins in consecutive seasons:
1. Novak Djokovic – 2007-10
Novak Djokovic tops this list as he is the only man to do it four years in a row with the next best three consecutive years.
He first won 60 matches in a season in 2007 as he was 68–19 for the year as he appeared in seven finals and lifted two trophies.
The next year he won his maiden Grand Slam, the 2008 Australian Open title, and finished the year with a 64–17 record while in 2009 he was 78–19 and 61–18 in 2010.
Although he didn’t win any Grand Slams in 2009, the 78 match wins is his second best for a calendar year as it was only bettered by 2015 when he was 82–6.
Djokovic turned 24 in 2011, but he enjoyed a 60+ match win record for 10 years in a row with 2017 the first time he fell below that mark as he was 32–8.
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2. Lleyton Hewitt – 2000-02
Lleyton Hewitt was the first man to achieve the feat in the 2000s and he was also the first to do it for three years in a row.
The teenager reached five finals and won four titles in 2000 as he finished the season with a 61–19 record. The next year he reached six finals, won six titles and finished with an 82% win-loss record (80–18) before “dropping” to 61–15 in 2002.
He only reached one more 60+ match wins in a season again after that as in 2004 he was 68–18.
3. Rafael Nadal – 2007-09
By the time Rafael Nadal reached 60+ match wins in a season for the first time in his career, he was already a three-time French Open winner.
In 2007 he finished the year with a 70–15 record, but he went better by some distance the following year as he was 82–11 (88%), which is his best year in terms of most match wins, but not in terms of percentage as he had a 91% record in 2013. The Spaniard won eight titles in 2008
Nadal was 66–14 in 2009 and, although he also was 71–10 and 69–15 in the next two years, he was above the age of 23.
5. Roger Federer – 2003-04
Roger Federer won his maiden Grand Slam in 2003 and it was also the first year that he notched up 60+ match wins as he finished the year 78–17 (82%).
The following year he entered he was 74–6 (92%) as he won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.
Like Djokovic, Federer also had 10 consecutive seasons of 60+ wins with seven of his coming after his 24th birthday in 2005.
6. Andy Roddick – 2003-04
Andy Roddick and Roger Federer achieved the milestone in the same season as the former was 72–19 during the 2003 campaign when he also won his first and only major, the US Open.
The American topped that the following year as he finished with a 74–18 win-loss record.
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