There are no more words for Jannik Sinner. Our world number one also won Halle, a prestigious grass tournament, the only surface on which he had never won before. To do so the blue had to overcome Hubert Hurkacza true specialist on these fields, thanks to two masterfully conducted tie-breaks.
Jannik’s week wasn’t actually a walk in the park. Forced into three matches in the third set, against Tallon GriekspoorFabian Marozsan and Jan Lennard Struffhe then made up for it by beating the Chinese giant Zhizhen Zhang and the Polish number nine in two games.
An exponential growth for Sinner, which now delivers him to Wimbledon, which will be staged from July 1st, as the main favorite, together with Carlos Alcaraz.
Jannik Sinner joins a club of legends
Halle was a very important testing ground for the South Tyrolean.
The first tournament as world number one. Jannik was able to withstand these pressures, maintaining the odds and bringing home the fourteenth title of his career. The fourth of his incredible season, after the Australian Open, Rotterdam and Miami.
Thanks to this success, the Italian has joined a very small group of legends who have made the history of this sport. Sinner is in fact the eighth tennis player in the history of this sport to win the first ATP tournament after becoming number one in the world.
Like him, in chronological order, only Jimmy succeeded Connorswith the victory at Indianapolis (1974), Bjorn Borg in Monte-Carlo (1979), Mats Wilander in Palermo (1988), Stefan Edberg on Long Island (1990), Pete Sampras in Hong Kong (1993), Novak Djokovic in Montreal 2011, Andy Murray at the Nitto ATP Finals (2016), and finally our Jannik with the success in Halle.
