{"id":540131,"date":"2026-03-16T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540131\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:09","slug":"andre-agassi-hands-indian-wells-trophy-to-jannik-sinner-fellow-atp-no-1-club-member-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540131\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Agassi hands Indian Wells trophy to Jannik Sinner, fellow ATP No. 1 Club member | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Indian Wells<br \/>\n    Agassi hands Indian Wells trophy to Sinner, fellow ATP No. 1 Club member<\/p>\n<p>American, who won event in 2001, returns 25 years later<\/p>\n<p>March 16, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/agassi-sinner-iw-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Agassi was in attendance for Jannik Sinner's final victory Sunday in Indian Wells.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Andre Agassi was in attendance for Jannik Sinner&#8217;s final victory Sunday in Indian Wells.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>It was hard to miss the ATP No. 1 Club presence during Sunday\u2019s final at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/indian-wells\/404\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BNP Paribas Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nNot only did the championship match feature former World No. 1s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jannik-sinner\/s0ag\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/daniil-medvedev\/mm58\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, but fellow ATP No. 1 Club member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/andre-agassi\/a092\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Agassi<\/a> presented the trophy to the Italian.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/atp-number-one-club\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cATP\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAgassi, who won the Indian Wells crown in 2001 on his way to completing the \u2018Sunshine Double\u2019, watched the final courtside before taking part in the trophy ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\nAgassi\u2019s former rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jim-courier\/c243\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Courier<\/a>, another ATP No. 1 Club member, was commentating the Sinner-Medvedev showdown for Tennis Channel. Courier lifted the Indian Wells trophy in 1991 to become the first player to claim the \u2018Sunshine Double\u2019. The American returned to the Indian Wells winner\u2019s circle in 1993. <\/p>\n<p>\nSinner, the No. 2 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, rose to World No. 1 for the first time in June 2024. He became the first Italian to achieve that feat. The 24-year-old enjoyed a 65-week debut stint as World No. 1 and spent an additional week at the top spot following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/paris\/352\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> title last November.<\/p>\n<p>\nWith his 25th tour-level title, Sinner has closed the gap between him and great rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/carlos-alcaraz\/a0e2\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the PIF ATP Rankings. Sinner trails the Spaniard by 2,150 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian Wells Agassi hands Indian Wells trophy to Sinner, fellow ATP No. 1 Club member American, who won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-540131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}