{"id":629681,"date":"2026-06-09T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629681\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:34:21","slug":"jannik-sinner-time100-most-influential-people-in-sports-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629681\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner: TIME100 Most Influential People in Sports 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The emergence in recent years of <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/time100-next-2024\/7023589\/jannik-sinner\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jannik Sinner<\/a>, the lanky Italian world No. 1, has all but ensured that men\u2019s tennis will enjoy another rivalry for the ages. Sinner-<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/time100-sports\/2026\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alcaraz<\/a>, which has quickly become the sports rivalry of the 2020s, could exceed even Federer-Nadal in generating intrigue. Sinner, who grew up in the Dolomites as a top-ranked junior alpine skier, began focusing on tennis at 13 and has won four of the past 10 Grand Slam singles titles. He\u2019s incredibly consistent on the hardcourts\u2014Sinner recently completed a \u201cSunshine Double,\u201d winning the tournaments at Indian Wells and in Miami back to back in March\u2014and in 2025 added a major title on grass to his mix, as he outlasted Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final. A doping case threatened to derail Sinner, who sat out three months last year after tennis authorities concluded he did not intentionally use a trace amount of a banned substance. That\u2019s now in his rear view. Up ahead: more wins, more majors, more unforgettable matches. In May, Sinner became the first Italian man to win the Italian Open in 50 years, and the second man after Novak Djokovic to win all nine Masters 1000 events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The emergence in recent years of Jannik Sinner, the lanky Italian world No. 1, has all but ensured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[10710,11089,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-franchise","tag-list","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629681","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=629681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}