When Jannik Sinner broke Taylor Fritz’s serve for the first time in the ATP Finals championship match, the crowd at Turin ‘s Inalpi Arena broke into chants of “Olé, olé olé… Sinner, Sinner.”
As it has been all week—and all year—the “Sinnermania” continues to soar. The world No. 1 is giving his fans something no other tennis player from his country has ever achieved. On Sunday, he became the first Italian to win the ATP Finals.
With an unshakable serve and lightning-fast tennis, Sinner defeated Fritz 6-4, 6-4, in another rematch of the recent US Open final.
His dominance throughout the week was overwhelming. None of his opponents—among the very best players of the year—managed to push him into a tiebreak. That performance set a record: no ATP Finals champion has ever lost fewer games (33) in a single campaign.
This superiority also showed in his 2024 season stats: Sinner finished nearly 4,000 points ahead of world No. 2 Alexander Zverev. Against Carlos Alcaraz (who defeated him in all three of their meetings this year), Sinner built a 4,800-point lead.
Jannik Sinner è il 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗼 𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗼 a conquistare le #NittoATPFinals 💚🤍❤️ pic.twitter.com/Fanx8TgB9F
— FITP (@federtennis) November 17, 2024
“We’re not stopping; we’ll keep working. Ending the year here with all my fans is emotional. Usually, people support you from your first match, but I arrived in Turin a week early, and people were already cheering for me from the first minute,” Sinner said after lifting the trophy.
And there’s one piece of not-so-good news for his rivals: Sinner will continue to have home-court advantage at the season’s final tournament.
With a big smile, Italian ATP President Andrea Gaudenzi announced during the trophy ceremony that the ATP Finals will remain in Italy until 2030.
However, Sinner’s stellar season had one gap: success on clay and grass. Despite his incredible year, the 22-year-old did not reach any Masters 1000 or Grand Slam finals on those surfaces. His lone title outside of hard courts came at the ATP 500 in Halle, leading up to Wimbledon.
