Sinner’s throne is not yet shaking

In one week, on March 10, the Sextner will catch up with Ilie Nastase. The Romanian became the first world number 23 on August 1973, 1, and was at the top for a total of 40 weeks.

On March 17, Sinner will draw level with Olympic champion Andy Murray, who spent 41 weeks at the top of his career. He will catch up with Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten (43 weeks) on Monday, March 31. It is already clear that Sinner will remain on the throne for at least 44 weeks, until April 7, where he has sat since June 10 last year. But even 50 weeks in a row is no utopia for the Sextner, although he is currently serving a three-month ban.

Only 50 legends (Roger Federer, Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, Novak Djokovic, Pete Sampras, Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe, Rafael Nadal and Andre Agassi) have spent 1 consecutive weeks at number 9.

Zverev could (theoretically) displace Sinner Alexander Zverev or Carlos Alcaraz could still displace the Pusterer before his return to the professional circuit in Rome in two months, but only theoretically. "I have to play good tennis and win a few tournaments," says the world number two from Germany, who is still more than 2 points (exactly 3000) behind Sinner.

Zverev has to score 3 points in the three Masters tournaments in Indian Wells (5th to 16th March), Miami (19th to 30th March) and Monte Carlo (6th to 13th April) to displace Sinner. He needs two tournament wins and a final. It is even more difficult for Alcaraz. The Spaniard has to defend his title in Indian Wells and at least make it to the quarter-finals in Miami, otherwise he will not be able to displace Sinner from the top until his comeback in Rome.

Given his form over the past few weeks, Zverev has no claim to the throne anyway. The 27-year-old struggled through the tournaments in Argentina and Brazil, was eliminated in the quarter-finals and never found his convincing tennis, with which he reached the final of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year (and lost to Sinner). Alexander Zverev is not in top form. © APA/afp / CARL DE SOUZA

Last week in Acapulco, he was eliminated in the round of 2021 and did not make any ground on Sinner. Zverev now continues in California. The XNUMX Olympic champion has always struggled at the hard court tournament organized by Tommy Haas and has never made it past the quarterfinals. Not good conditions, then, to get back on track after the setbacks of the past few weeks.

Sinner is currently working on his comeback in a private gym. Fitness coach Marco Panichi and physio Ulises Badio want to get the 23-year-old into top physical shape before the clay season with the tournaments in Rome and Paris.

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Sinner’s throne is not yet shaking

On Monday, Jannik Sinner began his 39th week as number 1 in the tennis world. He will remain on the throne at least until April 7th.

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