Jannik Sinner at 22 is the great star of Italian tennis: here’s the biography and net worth of the latest winner at the Australian Open.
What Italian tennis is experiencing would seem to be a new golden age. All thanks to Jannik Sinner, the youngest Italian tennis player to have ever won a tournament in the Open era. His victories also earned Sinner a very significant net worth, coming mostly from prizes and sponsors.
At twenty-two years old, the tennis player from San Candido is currently number four in the world in the ATP Tour ranking. Sinner recently won an incredible prize money at the Australian Open 2024. He reached the semifinals at Wimbledon 2023 and then went on to win his first Master 1000 in Toronto, followed by a victory at the 500 in Beijing.
After the success at the Next Gen ATP Finals 2019 and after having impressed everyone at the Roland Garros - the first class of 2001 to reach the round of 16 in a Slam - where he reached the quarter-finals only losing a set and eliminating colleagues of the caliber of David Goffin and Alexander Zverev, the boy then also achieved his first success in an ATP, thus becoming the youngest Italian tennis player to have won a tournament since the Open began.
Jannik Sinner thus immediately became "the chosen one", with a net worth which despite his young age is more than considerable, especially looking at the figures of his new sponsorship contract with Nike.
Who is Jannik Sinner
At just twenty-two years old Jannik Sinner can already boast a good series of records. Youngest Italian ever to have won a Challenger, the youngest Italian tennis player to enter the Top 100 ranking, and the youngest ever to win an ATP.
Born in San Candido on August 16th, 2001, as a good inhabitant of the Pusteria Valley his first sporting passion was skiing, with tennis instead practiced more as a pastime until 2013 when he decided to dedicate himself full-time to the racket.
After achieving good results at the junior level, he made his debut on the professional circuit in 2015, starting to take his first steps in the various Challenger tournaments, winning his first pro match in 2016 during the Future Croatia F4 .
Just like the other young local tennis star Matteo Berrettini, 2019 is also the year of the explosion for Jannik Sinner. Already in February, he won his first victory in a Challenger at the Bergamo tournament, which was then replicated shortly in Trento and Santa Margherita di Pula.
In April in Budapest he also achieved his first victory in an ATP tournament match, reaching the round of 16, then also shining in the Rome Internationals and making his debut at the US Open in one Slam.
Having reached the semi-finals in Antwerp, in October he managed to enter the Top 100 of the ATP ranking also qualifying for the Next Gen ATP Finals 2019 in Milan, where he managed to triumph by beating the Australian Alex De Minaur in the final.
The 2020 marked by the coronavirus began quietly for the boy with his exit at the third round of the Internazionali in Rome but immediately made headlines again for his journey at the Rolland Garros where he lost in the quarter-finals to Nadal. It matters little given that by beating the Canadian Vasek Pospisil in the final in a tie-break of the third set, shortly afterward he achieved success in the prestigious ATP Sofia.
In 2021, in Miami, he became the first Italian to reach the hard court final, defeating several top seeds, and the fourth Under-20 tennis player to play the final after Agassi, Nadal, and Djokovic.
By the end of 2021, he closed 10th in the ATP ranking, after also making his debut in the Davis Cup. Sinner began 2022 by reaching the quarter-finals at the Australian Opera, in the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo, and at Wimbledon. The first success of the year, however, arrives in Croatia with the victory of the ATP 250 in Umag.
In 2023 there was a success on the hard courts of Montpellier at the Open Sud de France (an ATP Tour 250), with Sinner who then confirmed himself to be very comfortable on the grass of Wimbledon enough to reach the semifinals where he was beaten by Novak Đoković. The disappointment, however, was soon overcome in Toronto - where he won his first Master 1000 - and in Beijing where he won a 500.
Then, Sinner finally won his first Slam at the Australian Open 2024. He first defeated Novak Đoković in the semifinals and then won against Daniil Medvedev in the final. Initially, it seemed like the game was going to Medvedev, but Sinner came back winning the last three sets, marking the start of a new era for tennis.
Jannik Sinner net worth
Before 2019, Jannik Sinner could only count on winning prizes of $20,000 in ATP prize money. Already the year after, however, the South Tyrolean tennis player put over 600,000 dollars in his pocket.
In 2020, thanks to the amazing journey he had at Roland Garros and the success in the ATP in Sofia, the young tennis player has already secured a total prize of 733,860 dollars, with his total career earnings thus breaking through the million dollar wall.
In 2022 Sinner pocketed over 2 million dollars, bringing the total to 11,6 million dollars.
Finally, the victory at the Australian Open 2024 gave him a 2 million dollar prize, putting the total at 20 million dollars (including his many victories in 2023).
In addition to the tournament prizes, in May 2019 Jannik Sinner also signed a sponsorship contract with Nike, while in 2020 he became a sponsor for brands such as Parmigiano Reggiano, Rolex, Lavazza, Alfa Romeo, and Technogym.
Recently, word of a new agreement with Nike has filtered through. The American giant would have renewed the sponsorship contract for another ten years, with the tennis player who would overall earn the pharaonic sum of 150 million dollars.
All things combined, Jannik Sinner’s net worth is estimated at 12 million dollars. And it’s only going to increase as he continues winning.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2023-10-05 10:16:00. Original title: Quanto guadagna Jannik Sinner? Vincite e sponsor della stella del tennis italiano
