Perhaps everything was really already foreseen. But in tennis this is not always the case. Yet yesterday at the ATP Finals in Turin the happy ending, written since the beginning of the tournament, was fully realized to the joy of millions of fans. The good Taylor Fritz limited himself to doing like all the others who met Jannik Sinner in this end-of-season tournament that crowns the Maestro: he acted as the blue’s sparring partner. He tried to counter his devastating shots by opposing power and trying to put the balls as deep as possible. In vain. A double 6-4 for the world no.1 and the 2024 edition of the ATP Finals in Turin consigned to history.
For Italy, upon closer inspection, this is truly a historic undertaking to be celebrated. Except that he is 23 years old and has such evident and disarming strength and superiority shown on the court, which makes one think that this is just one of the many moments in which our country will be at the top of the world thanks to the tennis player from San Candido.
At the incredibly crowded Inalpi Arena in Turin, Jannik Sinner thus closed his season by winning his eighth tournament of the year, the one that crowns him the ‘master of masters’. And the Maestro could only be him, Sinner “The Winner”, destined to remain on the top of the world well beyond the Australian Open next January, with a treasure of almost 4000 points more than the no.2 in the world, that Alexander Zverev collapsed unexpectedly in Turin under the blows of the Yankee with the German surname (while he, who has the Russian surname, is truly German).
Sinner will certainly exceed 36 weeks as No. 1 and, therefore, the friend-rival who has reserved his destiny, that Carlos Alcaraz who remained at the top of the ATP ranking for 36 weeks, even if not all consecutive. A great satisfaction for the South Tyrolean who, moreover, in this 2024 with the 4.6 million euros in prize money collected as winner of the ATP Finals without losing a single set, reaches an annual haul of 16 million euros in prizes alone (between tournaments ATP and exhibitions). Almost a record.
In Turin, crazy for Sinner, where there isn’t a square meter that doesn’t talk about the ATP Finals, the future honorary citizen of the city (the mayor Lo Russo announced it) is now celebrating like all over Italy. But here in a particular way because the most important tennis trophy after the Slams, the most important ever hosted in our country (and it will remain here for another 5 years as Andrea Gaudenzi, president of the ATP, announced tonight), was won by a Italian. From the strongest tennis player of all, national pride has become the symbol of a movement destined to expand dramatically.