For Jannik Sinner, the clay season begins: here is his balance sheet through 2023

For Jannik Sinner, the clay season begins: here is his budget until 2023

Next Sunday in Monte Carlo will begin the Masters 1000 clay court season, which will then continue with Madrid, Rome and finally the second Slam of the year, the real world championship on red clay, Roland Garros.

There’è is no doubt that this surface, along with’grass, on which per’ is now played very little, is the one that Jannik Sinner likes less than outdoor or indoor concrete, both for results and for playing characteristics.

In his career on the major circuit, including qualifying matches, he has won 46 matches and lost 21, and of the 13 tournaments he è won, only one he’s won on clay, in Umag in 2022, when he beat Carlos Alcaraz in the final, moreover the only one he’s reached on this surface.

At Roland Garros the best result was the quarterfinals reached at his first participation in 2020, and he had to surrender to the King of Paris, Rafael Nadal.

In the Masters 1000 last year he reached the semifinals in Monte Carlo itself, losing to Holger Rune in three sets after winning the first.

In the Principality in 2022 he had gone all the way to the quarters, losing to Sascha Zverev, only to repeat the same result in Rome, eliminated by Stefanos Tsitsipas.

In total last year he scored 585 points in tournaments on clay: semifinals, as mentioned, in Monte Carlo, quarters in Barcelona (where he withdrew; not playing against Lorenzo Musetti), eighths in Rome and second round at Roland Garros.

A blancio, that of 2023, which at first glance seems improvable given the enormous progress made in recent months by the 22-year-old South Tyrolean from Sesto Pusteria who, in fact, è the strongest tennis player in the world at least since last October.