Jannik Sinner’s end to the 2023 tennis season was fairly merely historic.
Sinner was runner-up in entrance of the house crowd in Turin, Italy on the Nitto ATP Finals, compiling a 4-1 file for the week with wins over Stefanos Tsitsipas, Novak Djokovic, Holger Rune, and Daniil Medvedev. He then led the Italians to their first Davis Cup title since 1976, going 3-0 in singles and 2-0 in doubles in Malaga, Spain.
Although Sinner misplaced to Djokovic within the Turin closing, the 22-year-old bounced again to beat Djokovic within the Davis Cup semis–from triple match level down, too. Sinner (with Lorenzo Sonego) additionally toppled Djokovic (with Miomir Kecmanovic) within the decisive doubles rubber of that semifinal tie between Italy and Serbia.
In whole, Sinner received three matches in opposition to Djokovic within the span of 11 days.
Obviously not are issues are equal. Rafael Nadal missed mainly all of 2023, Roger Federer retired in 2022, and Andy Murray has been harm on and off since 2017.
Still, the purpose stays: successful three tennis matches in opposition to Djokovic is a tremendous feat–irrespective of the time span. Beating him 3 times in 11 days is nothing wanting unimaginable.
Ricky contributes to 10sballs.com and in addition maintains his personal tennis web site, The Grandstand. You can observe him on Twitter at @Dimonator.
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