Jannik Sinner

He finished the season by reaching the final of the ATP Finals and contributing to Italy lifting Davis Cup for the first time after 1976.

In the 2024 Australian Open, Sinner defeated world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the semifinals to reach his first major final.

He then defeated Daniil Medvedev in a five-set final, coming back from two sets down to win his first Grand Slam title.

Jannik Sinner (born 16 August 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player.

Sinner has won 12 ATP singles titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2024 Australian Open.

He has reached the semifinals at Wimbledon and the quarterfinals of both the French Open and US Open, was runner-up at the 2023 ATP Finals, and won a Masters 1000 title at the 2023 Canadian Open.

Sinner led Italy to the 2023 Davis Cup crown.

He currently has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), making him the highest-ranked Italian tennis player in history, male or female.

Sinner has a career-high ranking of world No. 124 in doubles, achieved in September 2021, and has won one ATP Tour title in doubles.

Sinner grew up in northern Italy in the predominantly German-speaking region of South Tyrol.

He was active in sports such as skiing, football, and tennis as a child.

After being a competitive skier between the ages of 8-12, Sinner switched to focus exclusively on tennis at age 13 and moved to Bordighera on the Italian Riviera to train with veteran coach Riccardo Piatti.

Despite limited success as a junior, Sinner began playing in professional men's events at age 16 and became one of the few players to win multiple ATP Challenger Tour titles at age 17.

Jannik Sinner was born 16 August 2001 to Johann and Siglinde Sinner in Innichen in the region of South Tyrol in Northern Italy.

His mother tongue is German.

He grew up in the town of Sexten, the family hometown, where his father and mother work as a chef and a waitress at a ski lodge.

He has a brother named Marc.

Sinner began both skiing and playing tennis at age three.

He was one of Italy's top junior skiers from eight to twelve years old, winning a national championship in giant slalom at age eight and earning a national runner-up at the age of twelve.

While training in skiing Sinner gave up tennis for a year at the age of seven before his father pushed him to return to the sport.

When he resumed playing, he began working with Heribert Mayr as his first regular coach.

Nonetheless, tennis was still only his third priority behind skiing and football.

At the age of 13 Sinner decided to give up skiing and football in favour of tennis.

He preferred it over skiing because he wanted to compete directly against an opponent and to have more margin of error over the course of an entire match.

He also wanted to be in an individual sport where he could make all of the decisions, an opportunity he would not have in a team sport like football.

He decided to move on his own to Bordighera in Liguria on the Italian Riviera to train at the Piatti Tennis Centre under Riccardo Piatti and Massimo Sartori, a decision which his parents supported.

At the centre, Sinner lived with the family of Luka Cvjetković, one of his coaches.

Before Sinner began training in tennis full-time with Piatti, he had been playing only twice a week.

Sinner began playing on the ITF Junior Circuit, the premier junior tour which is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), in 2016.

Despite having limited success as a junior, he moved mainly to the professional tour following the end of 2017.

He never played the main draw of any high-level Grade 1 events in singles, and the only higher-level Grade A tournament he entered was the Trofeo Bonfiglio.

He followed up an opening round loss at Italy's Grade A tournament in 2017 with a quarterfinal in 2018.

That was the only junior event he played in 2018.

He never played any of the junior Grand Slam tournaments.

Because he entered so few high-level tournaments, Sinner's career-high junior ranking was a relatively low No. 133.

Sinner was not much focused on the junior circuit, and he began playing on the ITF Men's Circuit in early 2018.

In 2019, he broke into the top 100, winning the Next Generation ATP Finals and the ATP Newcomer of the Year award.

Sinner continued his rise into the top 50 in 2020 with his first top 10 victory, a French Open quarterfinal, and his first ATP Tour title at the 2020 Sofia Open.

In 2021, he became the youngest ATP 500 champion at the 2021 Citi Open, was a Masters runner-up at the Miami Open, and became the first player born in the 2000s to enter the top 10 in rankings.

After reaching his first major semifinal at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, Sinner won his first Masters 1000 title at the 2023 Canadian Open.