Jannik Sinner beat Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4 in the Italian Open final on Sunday, finishing a streak that now puts him in rare company and leaves him heading to Paris as the man to beat. The 24-year-old became only the second player to complete all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments and the youngest ever to do it.
Sinner’s win at the Foro Italico in Rome stretched his ATP Masters 1000 winning run to 34 matches and his unbeaten run in all competitions to 29. It was also his sixth consecutive ATP Masters 1000 title, a sequence that has turned a strong season into one that looks increasingly overwhelming. He is now 36-2 in 2026.
The final did not start cleanly for the Italian. Ruud, a two-time French Open finalist, broke Sinner at the first attempt and moved ahead 2-0 in the opening set. But Sinner steadied quickly, then flipped the first set in the ninth game with three points won behind drop shots to break for 5-4 before closing it out.
He carried that momentum into the second set and broke Ruud again to open the frame, a sharp early blow that made the rest of the match a chase. From there, the result felt less like a contest between equals than a confirmation of how far Sinner has pulled ahead of the field on clay and hard courts alike.
The scale of the achievement is also what gives it weight. The ATP Masters 1000 events are the men’s tournaments one rung below the four Grand Slams, and Novak Djokovic had been the only other player to finish the full set before Sunday. Djokovic completed it at 31. Sinner has now done it at 24.
That matters because the Italian Open is not happening in isolation. The French Open starts May 24, and Sinner’s form in Rome makes him the runaway favorite heading into Roland Garros. Twelve months ago, he beat Ruud 6-0, 6-1 in Rome. This time the score was tighter, but the outcome pointed the same way.
After the match, Sinner kept the assessment simple. He said it was not perfect tennis from either player, but that he was really, really happy and called the past two and a half months incredible. He added that not every day is simple, but he is really, really happy.
Ruud offered the clearest acknowledgment of the gap between them during the trophy ceremony, telling Sinner, “What you’re doing this year is hard to describe in words.”
For the rest of the field, that is the problem. Sinner has not just won in Rome. He has made the ATP’s most demanding stretch look routine, and he now arrives at the season’s next major with a target on his back and a record that keeps growing.
