Jannik Sinner will rise to a career-high ranking of No. 2 on Monday.
Becoming the second-best player in the world be quite an accomplishment in itself, but that would also be selling Sinner short. Right now is unquestionably the best. There was not much doubt about it heading into the Miami Open, and there is certainly no doubt about it now.
Sinner’s rise to the top of tennis continued on Sunday afternoon with a 6-3, 6-1 rout of Grigor Dimitrov at the Miami Masters. Playing in his third final at this event, the Italian lifted the trophy for the first time after just one hour and 13 minutes.
Dimitrov was also playing some of the best tennis of his life, advancing to the Miami title match for the first time with a run that included victories over Hubert Hurakcz, Carlos Alcaraz, and Alexander Zverev. However, the 32-year-old Bulgarian may have been feeling the physical effects of several difficult matches and even at 100 percent the chips would have been stacked against him with Sinner on the other side of the net.
After holding his first two service games convincingly, it unraveled in a hurry for Dimitrov. Sinner broke at 2-2 and 5-3 in the opening set and then completely dominated the second.
The 22-year-old is now 25-1 in his last 26 matches and 35-2 in his last 37. His ridiculous hot streak includes five titles (Beijing, Vienna, the Australian Open, Rotterdam, and Miami) plus a Davis Cup triumph for Italy. Sinner dropped only one set in Miami (to Tallon Griekspoor during third-round action) and other than Griekspoor no opponent was more competitive than 6-4 in any set.
“I’m really proud obviously about the result,” Sinner assured. “I started off struggling a little bit this week. I haven’t had so much time to adapt on this court, so I knew in the beginning that it’s going to be tough. As the tournament went on, I felt better and better. Today’s performance was really, really good. I’m just proud how I handled the situation. It was not easy, so it was a very, very good two weeks.”
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