Jannik Sinner makes interesting confession about his 2024 and 2025 goals
Jannik Sinner finished the 2024 tennis season with two Grand Slams and the ATP Finals titles as well as the year-end No 1 ranking, but the Italian admits at the start of the year he didn’t have any “specific goals” for the campaign.
The 23-year-old started his rise at the back end of the 2023 ATP Tour season as he won the Vienna Open, finished runner-up to Novak Djokovic at the ATP Finals and also steered Italy to the Davis Cup title.
And he kicked on at the start of the new year as he won his maiden Grand Slam at the Australian Open, became the first Italian to be top of the ATP Rankings, won a second major at the US Open and finished the season with the ATP Finals trophy.
Sinner finished the campaign with eight titles and $16,914,035 in prize money for the season.
When asked if any of his achievements were on his goal list for 2024, the world No 1 replied: “It’s tough to say. I mean, my goal was to understand what I can achieve this year. 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’m very happy about that because it’s a very nice way to finish off an incredible season. A lot of wins, a lot of titles. I’m talking on the tennis court. It was something what I was…
“Yeah, I didn’t put the goals and I cannot answer you what I achieved by putting the goals in the beginning of the year.
“I’m very happy, that’s for sure.”
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Sinner finished with a 72-6 win-loss record with three of those losses coming against Carlos Alcaraz.
Despite his success, he feels there are still several aspects of his game that he can work on.
“I actually believe there is still gap of improvement. I mean, I served very, very good at times, which was not the case throughout the whole tournament,” the 23-year-old said about his ATP Finals success.
“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.
I’m not looking about being the first whatever. It’s just stats what’s not written. Me, always try to improve as a player and trying to understand what I can do better.
“This week was something where I always felt the ball very good. Even in practice sessions, it was very smooth-going. The connection with the crowd was very nice.
“Let’s see what’s coming next year. The future, nobody can predict.”
