Yet another triumph and yet another record for Jannik Sinner. The Italian tennis player won the “Mutua Madrid Open” today, with a total prize pool of 8,235,540 euros, and has increasingly entered history. The South Tyrolean, in fact, is the first player ever to win five consecutive Masters 1000 (Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal stopped at 4). Today’s success follows the victories achieved in Paris indoor last October and in Indian Wells, Miami and Monte Carlo at the beginning of 2026. In today’s final, on the red clay of the Caja Magica in the Spanish capital, Sinner, number one in the world and in the draw, defeated the German Alexander Zverev, number three in the international ranking and second seeding power, with a score of 6-1, 6-2 in 57′. The last act of the Madrid tournament was without history: the blue was master of the pitch far and wide. A victory that once again established the Italian’s supremacy over the German: in 14 “direct clashes” Sinner beat Zverev on ten occasions and got the better of the last nine matches between the two.
From today, the 24-year-old from San Candido is also the youngest tennis player ever to have played in the final at least once in all Masters 1000 tournaments. Like him – although at an older age – only Djokovic (at 25), Nadal (at 27) and Roger Federer (at 30) have done so. The blue is now close to another milestone: Sinner could soon become the second player in history, after Djokovic, to achieve the Career Golden Masters, that is, to win all the 1000 rounds of the ATP circuit at least once. To reach the Serbian, the South Tyrolean only needs the title of the “Internazionali BNl d’Italia”, with the 2026 edition just around the corner: the draw for the main draws will take place tomorrow morning, at 10.30, in Rome, in Piazza del Popolo. Speaking of numbers and records, today’s victory for Sinner is the 28th consecutive victory in the Masters 1000 and the 23rd success in a row on the circuit, after the knockout in the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open, against Jakub Mensik.
Regarding titles, however, today’s is the 28th of his career won by the blue. Among these, four Grand Slam trophies stand out, namely two Australian Opens, a US Open and a Wimbledon, followed closely by nine ATP Masters 1000s. In the nine competitions in this category the Italian has hit the mark everywhere, winning in Canada, in Miami (twice), in Cincinnati, in Indian Wells, in Shanghai, in Paris indoor, in Monte Carlo and now in Madrid.