{"id":583784,"date":"2026-05-14T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583784\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:22:10","slug":"italian-open-jannik-sinner-breaks-novak-djokovic-record-at-atp-masters-1000-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583784\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open: Jannik Sinner breaks Novak Djokovic record at ATP Masters 1000 events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinner has won 45 of his past 47 matches across all tournaments since suffering his last defeat at a Masters 1000 tournament, when he was forced to retire from his third-round match in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has triumphed at that level in Indian Wells, Miami, Monte-Carlo and Madrid this year, following victory in Paris in November, winning 64 of the 66 sets he has contested during his record-breaking run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With his victory in Madrid earlier this month, he became the first player in history to win five consecutive Masters 1000 titles &#8211; just two weeks later he is closing in on a sixth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And so, while he may not have records at the forefront of his mind, his achievements continue to draw comparisons with the greats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, he has claimed 121 wins from 150 matches at ATP 1000 level, with only 22-time major winner Nadal (123) boasting a better record since the format&#8217;s introduction in 1990. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keen to deliver for his passionate home crowd, he will now seek two more victories as he attempts to become the first Italian men&#8217;s singles champion in Rome since Adriano Panatta 50 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinner has won 45 of his past 47 matches across all tournaments since suffering his last defeat at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-583784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}