Sinner completes ATP Golden Masters with Italian Open victory
The 24-year-old Italian defeats Casper Ruud in Rome, ending a 48-year local drought and cementing his status as the dominant force in men’s tennis ahead of Roland Garros.
Jannik Sinner has secured the Italian Open title in Rome, defeating Norway’s Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4 to complete the ATP career Golden Masters. The victory makes the 24-year-old the youngest man in history, and only the second after Novak Djokovic, to win all nine ATP Masters 1000 titles. Sinner, currently the world number one, claimed the trophy in front of a home crowd, ending a 48-year drought for Italian men at the tournament, with Adriano Panatta being the last local champion in 1976.
The win marks Sinner’s sixth consecutive Masters 1000 title, extending his ATP Tour winning streak to 29 matches. His performance in the final was characterised by resilience, recovering from an early break to secure the victory through a mix of variety and solid baseline play. Sinner has now won four Grand Slam titles and 10 Masters events before turning 25, a pace of achievement that has drawn comparisons to the sport’s previous legends.
Sinner’s dominance is reflected in his ranking points total of 14,700, which places him significantly ahead of his nearest rival, Carlos Alcaraz, who sits on 11,960 points. The Italian has won 36 of his 38 matches this season, with his only losses coming to Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open semi-finals and Jakub Mensik in the Doha quarter-finals. He has not lost at a Masters event since an injury retirement in Shanghai in October 2025.
The speed at which Sinner has completed the Golden Masters is notable, having won his first Masters title as recently as the 2023 Canadian Open. In contrast, Djokovic was 31 when he first achieved the clean sweep in 2018 and repeated the feat at age 33 in 2020. Sinner is also the first player to start 29-0 at the first six Masters events of a calendar year since the format was introduced in 1990.
With the French Open approaching, Sinner enters Roland Garros as the heavy favourite, a status not seen since the era of Rafael Nadal. A victory in Paris would see him become only the 10th man to complete the career Grand Slam. Having now won 16 of the sport’s 'big titles', including Grand Slams, Masters 1000s, the Tour Finals, and the Olympics, Sinner’s trajectory suggests he is tracking the records set by the 'Big Three' of Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Nadal.
