“In Madrid I will try to work hard from a physical point of view, in the gym. I know that perhaps I will have some more difficulties, but I am very happy to be here”. Jannik Sinner realistically recounts his CEO’s expectations ATP Media ahead of his debut at Mutua Madrid Open. “I’m trying to better understand my game on clay. Here you play at altitude, and the conditions are different from other tournaments. The ball travels higher, it’s faster. In the past here I found it more difficult to express my level of tennis” underlined the number 2 in the world, as reported by SuperTennis. At Caja Magica he will play his second tournament of the season on clay, after the semi-final in Monte-Carlo lost against future winner Stefanos Tsitsipas. On this surface he has only won one ATP title so far, in Umag in 2022 in the final against Carlos Alcaraz.
Second in terms of matches won on the ATP circuit in 2024, Sinner is firmly in the lead at the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, the ranking based only on seasonal results that shows the race towards the Nitto ATP Finals in real time. And he can aim to become the first Italian to reach the world number 1 spot in the traditional ATP rankings, based on the best results in the last 52 weeks.
“I know who has points to defend and who doesn’t, last year I didn’t play well on clay – concluded the South Tyrolean – I will try to do better than last year and I won’t succeed, I will do better in the next few years. But for the These scores don’t interest me that much at the moment.”