DECRYPTION – Zero like the number of Italian world No.1 before him, eight like the number of titles won since January, the dizzying year 2024 of Jannik Sinner, who won the ATP Masters on Sunday, summarized in figures.
0: the number of Italians to have occupied the place of world No.1 since the creation of the ATP ranking in 1973, until Sinner took power on June 10, 2024.
3: the surfaces where it has established itself in 2024, indoor cement, outdoor cement and grass. The only thing that still resists him is clay: of the eighteen titles on his list, he has won only one on this surface, in Umag (Croatia) in 2022.
8: the titles won in 2024, with two Grand Slam crowns (Australian Open, US Open), the ATP Masters in Turin, three Masters 1000 (Miami, Cincinnati, Shanghai) and two ATP 500 (Rotterdam, Halle).
16: the consecutive victories during his perfect start to the season which saw him win the Australian Open and the Rotterdam tournament, before falling in the semi-finals at Indian Wells. Series reissued between August and September with these titles in Cincinnati and at the US Open, before his defeat in the final in Beijing.
48: the number of years between the last victory of an Italian in a Grand Slam tournament (Adriano Panatta in 1976 at Roland-Garros) and his coronation in Melbourne.
70: his victories on the circuit in 2024, for six defeats.
121: the concentration in picograms per milliliter (one picogram equals 0.000000000001 g) of clostebol metabolites found during the analysis of the sample taken on March 10 during the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells. Sinner was cleared by the International Agency for Tennis Integrity (Itia) which accepted his defense, namely that he had suffered “contamination by a member of his staff, who had applied a spray to his own hand over-the-counter containing clostebol to treat a small injury. The World Anti-Doping Agency appealed this decision and called for a suspension of one to two years.
3.015: his lead in points in the ATP ranking over his runner-up, the German Alexander Zverev (7,315 pts, compared to 10,330 for Sinner).
17 millions: his earnings in dollars in 2024 (16 M in euros) on the ATP circuit, not counting the six million received for his victory in the “Six Kings Slam” exhibition tournament in Saudi Arabia. Since his professional debut, the big redhead has pocketed more than $34 million in bonuses. To these bonuses, we must add nearly $15 million in advertising revenue and other partnerships for 2024, according to the business magazine Forbes.
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