Jannik Sinner earns 200th hard-court victory, joins elite club of active players

Sinner achieved the unique record of reaching the finals of all four majors this season.

Jannik Sinner continued his pursuit of a second title at the China Open by making the third round in the ATP 500 event. Sinner, competing for the first time since his US Open final defeat to Carlos Alcaraz, had to grind to beat French qualifier Terence Atmane in three sets in the second round in Beijing.

By reaching the quarter-finals, the Italian also registered his 200th hard-court win since the start of the 2020 season, placing him in an exclusive club alongside Daniil Medvedev, who leads with 208 wins over the same period.

Sinner’s consistency on the surface is remarkable. He has shown brilliance across all levels of the game sealing a total of 20 titles, of which 17 have come on hard courts. His next best surface is the Grass court where the Italian has won 2 titles, including the Wimbledon trophy this year.

Behind Sinner and Medvedev, the hard-court wins leaderboard also has Andrey Rublev (186 wins), Taylor Fritz (172 wins), and Alexander Zverev (170 wins) as the top five ranked players.

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Three of them are currently participating at the China Open, with Medvedev and Zverev hoping to join Sinner in the last eight stage. Rublev crashed out in the opening round itself while Fritz is hoping to lift a second title at the Japan Open but must overcome the World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz to get there.

Meanwhile, Sinner marched into the China Open quarters with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-0 win over the 68th ranked Atmane, dropping a set in the tournament for the first time on his debut appearance. The 24-year-old will next take on Fabian Marozsan.

The 2025 season has been particularly impressive for Sinner, even though it saw him serve a three-month doping ban.

As of now, the five-time Grand Slam winner has accumulated 38 hard-court wins with only 2 losses, including a victory at the Australian Open, and maintained a 23-match winning streak in Grand Slam hard-court matches with a staggering 95%-win rate.

The year 2025 could have been a near-perfect Grand Slam year for the Italian, but his rival and the current World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz denied him victory in two major finals.

Sinner defended his Australian Open title by beating Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 and won Wimbledon, avenging his previous French Open final loss to Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

However, he fell short in the final Grand Slam of the year at US Open, losing in the title match to Alcaraz 2-6, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, and before that had retired mid-match against the same rival at Cincinnati Masters 1000 final.

Sinner will next be in action on September 29, Monday against Fabian Marozsan in the quarter-finals of the ATP 500 event in Beijing.

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