Jannik Sinner beats Grigor Dimitrov and flies to the semifinals at Roland Garros 2024. Today, Tuesday 4 June, the Italian champion, number 2 in the world, authoritatively beat the Bulgarian in 3 sets (6-2, 6-4, 7-6) in a match that was never in question. Now Sinner awaits the winner of the other semi-final, the one that will be played tonight, at 8.15pm, between the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas and the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz.
Today, Wednesday 4 June, will remain historic. Novak Djokovic’s withdrawal due to the right knee problem suffered during the marathon match against Francisco Cerundolo prevented the Serbian champion from continuing in the Parisian Major where he should have reached the final to defend his position as number 1.
Sinner thus realizes his dream and that of the whole of Italy which for the first time in history, from Monday 10 June, when the updated rankings will be drawn up after the Second Slam of the year, will officially have a tennis player in the first position of the world ranking.
Just by winning the Masters 1000 in Miami against Dimitrov last April, he became number 2 in the world. At 22 years old, Sinner won 13 titles, including the 2024 Australian Open and three finals and in November 2023 he brought the Davis Cup back to Italy after 47 years.
In 2018 he was a neo-professional, a young man with great hopes, but he ended the year in position 551. From there his climb began which brought him into the top-ten in 2021. After a 2022 that ended in the top-15, lower than expected, Jannik made the big leap with a simply incredible 2023 where he rose to number 4 in the world.
The rest is recent history like the happiness he gives to millions of fans who watch his matches since a real Sinner-mania exploded.
Sinner will continue to play for new goals starting with this Roland Garros, and then moving on to the Olympics, other Slams and the ATP Finals. Djokovic, who unfortunately had to give up due to an injury and not with a match on the court that everyone would have wanted, today gives him the throne after he gave another great demonstration of his abilities yesterday and in recent days.
The Serbian, who boasts 24 Slam titles in his career, became number 1 at 24 years old. Young Jannik has done it before. We’ll see if, like Nole, he will be able to end the season as number 1 8 times. Now, however, it’s time to celebrate Jannik Sinner who for the first time in his career is deservedly on the throne of tennis.
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