The 21st century
Italy · born Innichen, South Tyrol, 2001 · right-handed · twice Wimbledon champion
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2
Wimbledon singles titles, 2025 and 2026
27-4
Wimbledon match record, 2021 to 2026
36-10
Career match record on grass
3-0
Grass finals: Halle 2024, Wimbledon 2025 and 2026
1st
Italian man to win the Wimbledon singles
Born in Innichen, South Tyrol, on 16 August 2001, Sinner grew up in Sexten in the Dolomites and at 13 gave up skiing and football for tennis. He turned professional in 2018 and from 2022 worked with Simone Vagnozzi and Darren Cahill. In 2024 he won the Australian Open and the US Open, became world No. 1 and helped Italy keep the Davis Cup it had won in 2023. He retained the Australian Open in January 2025, then served a three-month suspension, agreed with the World Anti-Doping Agency, after two positive tests for clostebol that a tribunal attributed to contamination through his physiotherapist. He returned to win Wimbledon that July. In 2026 he played no grass warm-up event, came back from two sets to one down in his first match at Wimbledon and retained the title against Alexander Zverev.
| Wimbledon singles | Champion 2025 and 2026. First round 2021, quarter-finals 2022 and 2024, semi-final 2023. Match record 27-4 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon finals | 2025: beat Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. 2026: beat Alexander Zverev 6-7 (7), 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-4 in 3 hours 45 minutes |
| Other grass title | Halle 2024, won as world No. 1, beating Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (8), 7-6 (2) in the final |
| Defeats that taught him | 2022 quarter-final: lost to Novak Djokovic in five sets from two sets up. 2023 semi-final: lost to Djokovic in straight sets. 2024 quarter-final: lost to Daniil Medvedev in five sets |
| Wimbledon records | First Italian man to win the singles (2025) and the first to retain it (2026); the tenth man of the Open Era to retain the title |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"But it doesn't matter how you win or lose, you just have to understand what you did wrong and try to work on it."
The person behind the player.
Sexten · 2008
He grew up in the Dolomites, began skiing at three and won a national giant slalom title at seven. He was national runner-up at 11 and also played youth football for AFC Sexten. Tennis, which he had once given up for a year, won out at 13, when he dropped both other sports.
Source: WikipediaVienna 2019
At the 2019 Vienna tournament he ate a carrot during a change of ends. Six friends from Revello in Piedmont found that funny, dressed as carrots for a day at the Italian Open, and became the Carota Boys, who went on to follow him to Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. The carrots, they insist, have nothing to do with his red hair.
Source: AFP, via The Daily StarWimbledon 2025 · Fourth round
Grigor Dimitrov led him 6-3, 7-5, 2-2 on Centre Court when an injury forced him to stop. Sinner went straight to his side of the net. "I don't take this as a win at all," he said. "This is just a very unfortunate moment to witness for all of us."
Source: Tennis.comWimbledon 2025 · Final
Five weeks after losing the French Open final to Alcaraz from two sets up, having held three championship points, he beat the same player 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 for his first Wimbledon title. The Paris defeat, he said, "is one of the reasons I'm here holding this trophy."
Source: AFP, via Dhaka TribuneWimbledon 2026 · First round
In his first grass match of the year Miomir Kecmanović led him by two sets to one, and Sinner fell hard in the third set, blood showing through his right shoe. He won 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-3 in three and a half hours and played down the damage: "It's just a nail."
Source: TSNWimbledon 2026 · Final
Alexander Zverev, the new French Open champion, took the first set on a tie-break before Sinner turned the final. It was Zverev's ninth straight defeat by him, and on court he said so: "Jannik, I don't really like you anymore." Sinner told him he was close to his goal of world No. 1.
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