Sinner: I can still improve next year – As if 2024 wasn't enough!

World number one Italy’s Jannik Sinner believes that he can still improve despite having a remarkably 2024. The 23-year-old is now regarded as the best player currently playing in men’s tennis in the singles category.

Sinner rounded of the year in style in Turin when he lifted the ATP Finals title for the first time in his career. He defeated America’s Taylor Fritz in the final in straight sets with a score of 6-4, 6-4. This was Sinner’s third major title this year. Earlier, he lifted the Australian Open after beating Russia’s Daniil Medvedev in the final in a five-set thriller with a score of 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. He then lifted the US Open title after beating Fritz in the final in straight sets with a score of 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.

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While doing this, he became only the third player in the history of men’s tennis in the singles category to win the Australian Open, the US Open and the ATP Finals in the same year. The other two players to did that was Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Switzerland’s Roger Federer. He also became the first Italian player to lift the ATP Finals title and was the first to win the title without losing a set since 1986.

However, all of this success, it seems, is not for Sinner, who, while talking to the media after match, insisted that he can still improve next year. The 23-year-old also went on to state that his goal was to improve this year and it was not about winning titles or getting to the very top in men’s tennis.

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“I mean, my goal was to understand what I can achieve this year,” he said. “There was no specific goal of winning a Grand Slam or being No. 1 or whatever. It's going to be the same next year: whatever we can catch, we take, and the rest we learn. I think that was the mentality we approached this whole year, trying to raise my level in specific moments, which I've done throughout this year. I mean, today I served very, very good at times, which was not the case throughout the whole tournament. There are still certain shots and points what I can make sometimes better, but are small details. The higher you play level-wise, the more details make the difference.”