Jannik Sinner, the'incredible rise: as of April 2018 he was world number 1770

Jannik Sinner is enjoying a few days off after winning, in Monte Carlo, his 27th career title (one more than rival Carlos Alcaraz). Well-deserved days of rest, days as world No. 1. A milestone achieved with impressive growth.

Scouring the ATP statistics, one notices how, exactly on April 2, 1918, Jannik Sinner was world number 1770. His first official “presence” in the ATP ranking. From there on, his growth was impressive. At the end of August that year he entered, for the first time, the Top 1000 (891 in the world).

On March 11, 2019, the big jump: from 546 to 324. To see him in the Top 100, an achievement that would make thousands of tennis players happy, we have to wait until November 11, 2019 when he is ranked number 96 in the world. The most delicate phase comes, the one in which the bar must be raised even higher, and Jannik Sinner certainly does not back down. On May 31, 2021, he conquers, for the first time in his career, access to the top 20 tennis players in the ATP ranking (19th).

The South Tyrolean knows he has the numbers to aim for excellence. In September 2022 he enters the Top 10. In February 2024 he is No. 4 while on November 3, 2025 he crowns the great dream of being No. 1 in the world. We are now at 67 weeks at the top of the ATP rankings and the meter keeps running. In eight years, Jannik Sinner has gone from number 1770 to number 1. Not exactly a feat for everyone.