this week Masters 1000 in Montreal will be played, this will be one of the big ones US Open with preparation tournaments Masters 1000 in CincinnatiThe real contender for victory in Canada is definitely Jannik Sinnerwho will be under pressure to defend the 1,000-point mark he earned in Toronto last year (the year he won the first Masters 1,000 of his young career).

Young Italian forced to skip the competition Paris Olympics Due to tonsillitis, it was a very painful decision for Jannik as the Games were one of his main season goals. The Australian Open 2024 champion is playing a great 2024 that will definitely consecrate him among the strongest players in the world.

Sinner sits atop the ATP rankings, won his first Slam in Melbourne earlier this year and also won his second Masters 1000 in Miami. A hip problem has affected his preparations for the French Open, where he reached the semi-finals and lost Carlos Alcaraz in five sets. The 22-year-old from San Candido was also a favorite at the Wimbledon Championships but was eliminated by the Russian Daniil Medvedev He was eliminated in the quarter-finals due to the flu virus he caught on the eve of the match.

Sinner begins ninth week at No. 1

Jannik Sinner, who will also play in the doubles tournament in Canada He has just started his ninth week as world No. 1, equal to Russian Marat Safin He rose to 21st place in the all-time rankings. His next targets will be Boris Becker (12), Andy Roddick (13) and Daniil Medvedev (16).

Meanwhile, the Serbian legend Novak Djokovic He won the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Serbian champion had not won a title in 2024, since his last victory was at the ATP Finals in Turin in November 2023. It was a particularly symbolic victory, given that it gave Serbia the gold medal. And because it was a feat that was missing from Nole’s extraordinary palmarés.

Losing to Nole Djokovic in the final, Spanish ace Carlos Alcaraz missed his match with Jannik Sinner, who is at the top of the table as the tennis player with the most tournament wins in 2024. Jannik Sinner has won four tournaments, Carlos Alcaraz three. The ATP ranking continues to smile on the South Tyrolean player thanks to the continuity of his results in the last twelve months. The four tournaments that Jannik Sinner has won in 2024 are the Australian Open, the first Slam of the season in January, then the tournament in Rotterdam in February, Miami at the end of March and finally the success he achieved on the German turf at the ATP 500 in Halle. The three tournaments that Alcaraz has won are Indian Wells, Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Obviously, the last two victories have a great specific weight.

Who is next in the rankings of multiple runners in 2024, along with Alcaraz and Sinner? Jannik is behind Sinner and paired with Alcaraz in tournaments won in 2024 Matteo Berrettini Having conquered three tournaments, all of them unconventional: Marrakech, Gstaad and Kitzbuhel. The Italian tennis player is now called to the test on the American hard court. In this special ranking of the tournaments won in 2024 with two titles each, the other multiple winners of the season are: Ugo Humbert, Sebastian Baez, Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud, Alex de Minaur, Tommy Paul, Alejandro Tabilo and Taylor Fritz.

Jannik becomes first Italian athlete to become world number 1

Sinner and Alcaraz look set to compete for top-tier titles in the next decade. The two young champions have already won a lot and played some unforgettable matches, Even though they have never met in a Slam or Masters 1000 final.

Ahead of the start of the Canadian Open, Jannik Sinner spoke once again about his absence from the Paris Olympics: “I watched some of the Olympics, but I didn’t watch a lot of tennis. It broke my heart not to be able to go to Paris“The Games were one of my main goals of the season. But in the end, looking at everything from a broader perspective, Musetti won the bronze medal, so an Italian is happy and I am happy for him.”

Sinner, Alcaraz and Djokovic will be the stars of the US Open, which will be held in New York at the end of August. Nole will have to defend his title, which he won last year by beating Medvedev in the final. Alcaraz was beaten by the Russian in the semi-finals, while Sinner Sascha Zverev In the last 16. The top three favourites will have to be very careful against Medvedev, Zverev, Tsitsipas and Ruud and Hurkacz who can play great tennis on these courts.