Jannik Sinner has been previewing his chances of tasting silverware ahead of the Monte-Carlo Masters this week.
Fresh from securing yet another title in Miami, the Italian ace is in truly unstoppable form, as the most in-form player on the ATP tour.
He has already tasted silverware on three occasions in 2024, one of which marked his first Grand Slam title, and will be quietly confident of converting such blistering form into the clay court season.
However, his latest comments seem somewhat unconvincing.
Jannik Sinner is already looking beyond Monte-Carlo
Speaking ahead of the first big clay tournament of the year, in which he reached the semi-final last year, the 22-year-old shockingly revealed that he was not actually too bothered with his upcoming performance.
After all, he has grand ambitions of winning even greater honours, and can afford to be more lackadaisical with the clay season due to him having far fewer points to defend than the likes of Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic.
It is that lack of pressure that will likely still make him a supremely dangerous player for anyone to face.
And, when those targeted tournaments roll around, it is frightening how good he might be by that point.
He revealed: ‘The expectations are not that high for this for this beginning of clay.
‘The goal is to be ready for Roland Garros and then hopefully Olympics. This is, I guess for all the players the goal, to try to be in top form there.’
Jannik Sinner will be targeting a few specific tournaments
Whilst Roland-Garros and the Olympics are the two tournaments that he has named as his targets for this season, he arguably will boast a far greater chance of securing his second Grand Slam of the season and his career at the two he did not mention.
Wimbledon has been a relatively profitable competition for Sinner already despite having yet to reach the final.
Last year saw him reach the semis, where he was comfortably defeated by an unstoppable Djokovic, and the year before he was two sets up against the same opponent before a stunning comeback once again thwarted the youngster.
Now, the Serbian thinks Sinner is the best player in the entire world.
Then, when the US Open rolls around, he will surely be brimming with confidence knowing just how prolific he can be on hard court.
With one Grand Slam already, won on Melbourne’s hard court, there are set to be so many more opportunities this season for Sinner to cement his meteoric rise to the pinnacle of tennis.
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