Jannik Sinner continued his incredible winning streak on the ATP Tour with a comfortable opening victory at the Italian Open.
Sinner defeated Austrian star Sebastian Ofner in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, to kick-start his campaign in Rome, where he made the final last year.
The Italian fell to his rival, Carlos Alcaraz, in the 2025 championship match, with the Spaniard winning the tournament for the first time.
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Since his quarterfinal exit at the Qatar Open in February, Sinner has not lost a match on the tour.
With his latest triumph over Ofner, the world number one has just set another record.
Jannik Sinner joins Novak Djokovic in rare feat on the ATP Tour
Sinner recently broke Novak Djokovic’s record for the most consecutive ATP Masters 1000 titles won, with five clinched from Paris 2025 to Madrid 2026.
Now, Sinner has joined Djokovic as the second player in the format’s history to win his first 24 matches of an ATP Masters 1000 season.
The Serb managed the feat twice in his career, doing so during both the 2011 and 2015 seasons.
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Additionally, Sinner is the first to achieve the feat at the fifth ATP Masters 1000 event of the year, according to Opta Ace.
Sinner needs just the Italian Open title to complete the Career Golden Masters; the name given to the achievement of winning each of the nine ATP Masters events at least once.
Only Djokovic has won all nine before, and Sinner could become the youngest to do it at the age of 24.
Just one top 10 player remains in Jannik Sinner’s half of the draw
Some big hitters exited the tournament on Saturday, namely: Ben Shelton, Arthur Fils and Jakub Mensik.
Each of those players is in Sinner’s half of the draw, and with Shelton’s loss, only one top 10 star remains in the four-time major champion’s path to the final.
That star is Daniil Medvedev, who has endured a difficult start to his clay season thus far.
Medvedev crashed out in his opening match at the Monte-Carlo Masters with a heavy 6-0, 6-0 defeat to Matteo Berrettini.
The Russian then picked up two wins in Madrid before falling to 10th seed Flavio Cobolli in the round of 16.
In Rome, Medvedev advanced to the third round via a walkover after his first opponent at the tournament, Tomas Machac, withdrew due to illness.
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