Italian Open 2026 \u2013 Jannik Sinner\u2019s inevitable winning streak<\/p>\n
Calling it a commanding victory against Olympic doubles gold medallist Rublev barely does justice to the sheer dominance of Sinner on the tennis court. It took just an hour and 32 minutes for the No. 1 to soar through to the final four in Rome.<\/p>\n
Sinner\u2019s 27th straight win extends his season record to 34-2: only Djokovic and Jakub\u00a0Men\u0161\u00edk<\/a>\u00a0have bested the 24-year-old, both going the distance to defeat him.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Rublev\u2019s return of break at 6-2, 4-2 down was the highlight of an afternoon where he could not find any rhythm amidst the Foro Italico\u2019s baptism of fire. All 19 of Sinner\u2019s winners were met with a chorus of roars from the\u00a0Campo Centrale, a court where he played with ideal conditions and the most partisan crowd possible.<\/p>\n Per Opta<\/a>, the world No. 1 has now won 81 per cent of his career Masters 1000 matches: only Rafael Nadal<\/a> has more wins (123 to 121) in his first 150 outings at this level. This is a level of nearly unparalleled dominance being served by the Italian.<\/p>\n The only curse of Sinner\u2019s success is a packed schedule \u2013 those 27 victories have come in the span of 68 days, or one every 2.5 days. The men\u2019s singles semi-finals are up next on Friday (15 May).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian Open 2026 \u2013 Jannik Sinner\u2019s inevitable winning streak Calling it a commanding victory against Olympic doubles gold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-586656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586656","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=586656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}