Jannik Sinner reached more important milestones on the ATP circuit. The Italian tennis player won the Rome Masters 1000 on Casper Ruud, by 2 sets to 0, with a double 6/4 for the first time in his career.
The result made him the first tennis player to win six consecutive Masters 1000s, and the first Italian to win the tournament on home soil since Adriano Panatta in 1976.
The Italian didn’t make a good start to the match, but he recovered and took advantage of Ruud’s mistakes to
He opened the second set with a break of serve, and was ahead until the match ball.
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Sinner also equaled Serbia’s Novak Djokovic by winning all nine Masters on the circuit in different years, and reached Rafael Nadal’s mark of winning all of the series’ events on clay.
The Italian hasn’t lost since February – in Masters 1000, there are 34 consecutive victories, 29 this year alone, in Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome.
With the absence of Carlos Alcaraz from the tournament, the difference between tennis players in the . Sinner is first, followed by the Spanish. Zverev is third and Djokovic is fourth. Casper Ruud is 25th.
