Who can stop Jannik Sinner? Only Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz has achieved it this season, two weeks ago in Indian Wells. A single defeat for now 22 victories: the Italian's record in 2024 speaks for itself. This Sunday evening, in the final of the Masters 1000 in Miami, there was no match. In control in the first set, intractable in the second, the Transalpine only needed 1h14 to dismiss his opponent, the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, 12th player in the world (6-3, 6-1).
After two finals lost in Florida, in 2021 and 2023, the third was the good one for Jannik Sinner who flew over the competition during the entire tournament. The Italian only lost one set, in the round of 16 against the Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor (5-7, 7-5, 6-1). His other opponents were not able to threaten him, not even the Russian Daniil Medvedev, outclassed in the semi-finals (6-1, 6-2).
MIAMI MASTERY 🙌
The moment @janniksin defeated Grigor Dimitrov to become the first Italian man to win the #MiamiOpen title! pic.twitter.com/9W8111FvHQ
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) March 31, 2024
At 22, Jannik Sinner won his second Masters 1000 title in Miami after the one won last year in Toronto. It is also his 13th career title, and already the third this season after the Australian Open in January and the ATP 500 tournament in Rotterdam in February.
Full of confidence, the Italian prodigy will reach his best career ranking this Monday. He will be second and will have in his sights the first place of the Serbian Novak Djokovic, whom he eliminated in Melbourne.
As last November at the Rolex Paris Masters, the last step was too high for Grigor Dimitrov, 12th in the world. The 32-year-old Bulgarian, however, has nothing to be ashamed of in his tournament, he who took out two members of the top 5 to reach the final: Carlos Alcaraz in the quarters (6-2, 6-4) and the German Alexander Zverev in the semi-final (6-4, 6-7, 6-4). But, like last year in the third round, his path stopped against Jannik Sinner.