{"id":877582,"date":"2026-10-10T15:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877582\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:32:38","slug":"jannik-sinners-silent-treatment-by-ben-rothenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877582\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner\u2019s Silent Treatment &#8211; by Ben Rothenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner announced Tuesday that one of the best\u2014and most mysterious\u2014seasons in tennis history is over. <\/p>\n<p>Sinner, when he played, reeled off a stellar 44-3 record this year, but hasn\u2019t shown up on tour since winning Wimbledon in July. By winning percentage, at 93.6 pecent, it\u2019s the fifth-best season in ATP history\u2014and it\u2019s over. <\/p>\n<p>Not counting the 2020 pandemic stoppage, Sinner will have set the ATP record for longest time without playing a match on tour while holding the No. 1 ranking in ATP history\u2026breaking a record he\u2019d already set himself last year. Ironically, both absences began immediately after he\u2019d just won a major. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!I_jH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33c44fba-0fae-4929-8799-e51e08c5f93f_1126x526.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/33c44fba-0fae-4929-8799-e51e08c5f93f_1126.png\" width=\"1126\" height=\"526\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/33c44fba-0fae-4929-8799-e51e08c5f93f_1126x526.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:526,&quot;width&quot;:1126,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:150228,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.benrothenberg.com\/i\/218898818?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33c44fba-0fae-4929-8799-e51e08c5f93f_1126x526.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do we know? What don\u2019t we know? What should we know? <\/p>\n<p>To read everything in this deep dive into murky waters, please subscribe to Bounces! \u2014Ben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner announced Tuesday that one of the best\u2014and most mysterious\u2014seasons in tennis history is over. Sinner, when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-877582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}