 "Jannik Sinner climbed to World No 2 in the ATP rankings after winning the Miami Open title. AP")
Jannik Sinner’s powerful 2024 season continued as he won the Miami Open with 6-3, 6-1 victory over Grigor Dimitrov on Sunday.
In a flawless display, Sinner, the 2024 Australian Open champion, stretched his win-loss record this year to 22-1 in winning the Miami Open for the first time. He had been runner-up twice in 2021 and 2023 - to Hubert Hurkacz and Daniil Medvedev respectively.
The Italian, who needed 73 minutes to beat Dimitrov, dropped just seven games combined in the semifinals and finals.
“I’m really proud obviously about the result,” Sinner said. “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.”
A look at the achievements unlocked by Sinner with the Miami Open title:
# Sinner has now won two ATP Masters 1000 titles. He had won in Toronto last year for his maiden glory
Impact Shorts
More Shorts# Sinner has now won three titles in 2024 - after Australian Open in Melbourne and an ATP 500 in Rotterdam
# The 22-year-old will climb to career-high World No. 2 ranking - displacing Carlos Alcaraz. Novak Djokovic remains in the lead
# Sinner is the first Italian to climb to No. 2 in the rankings and the first Italian to claim multiple Masters 1000 titles
# He also has the most tour-level trophies by an Italian in the Open Era to 13
# Sinner has now won 25 of his past 26 matches. The only loss coming to Alcaraz in the Indian Wells semi-finals