Italy's Jannik Sinner won his fourth
title of the ATP season at Antwerp on Sunday to set a new
Italian record beating Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 6-2 6-2 in
just an hour and a quarter and rose to a personal best 11th in
the rankings, not far from the top eight who will make the ATP
Finals in Turin on November 14-21.
No Italian had ever won four ATP tournaments in a single season.
The Alto Adige born player now has two tournaments left, in
Vienna from Tuesday and then Paris Bercy, to reach his goal of
making the finals on home turf.
He would join 25-year-old countryman Matteo Berrettini who has
already qualified for Turin having come second at Wimbledon to
world number one Novak Djokovic and is currently world no seven.
At 11th, the 20-year-old from Sesto Pusteria in theory just has
another three places to climb to get into the Nitto ATP FInals -
but actually just two because Spanish leagend Rafa Nadal is out
with injury.
Speaking after his double-quick win over Schwartzman, Sinner
said "I felt good from the start and I tried to push the ball
against a solid opponent like Diego, and I think I succeeded
quite well".
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