…Rome had been the only one of the nine Masters 1000 events missing in the 24-year-old Italian’s collection.
Jannik Sinner has made history, becoming the second—and by far the youngest—player ever to win all nine Masters 1000 events in their career, otherwise known as the Career Golden Masters.
Coming into 2026, he had already won Miami, Canada, Cincinnati, Shanghai and Paris, and over the last few months he ticked off all of the missing ones—Indian Wells, Monte Carlo, Madrid and now Rome.
He defeated Casper Ruud in the Rome final on Sunday, 6-4, 6-4.
Novak Djokovic is the only other player ever to complete the Career Golden Masters, since Masters 1000 events began in 1990, but he achieved the feat at age 31. Sinner is currently just 24 years old.
JANNIK SINNER’S BEST RESULTS BY MASTERS 1000 EVENT:
•Won Indian Wells [2026]
•Won Miami [2024, 2026]
•Won Monte Carlo [2026]
•Won Madrid [2026]
•Won Rome [2026]
•Won Canada [2023]
•Won Cincinnati [2024]
•Won Shanghai [2024]
•Won Paris [2025]
Sinner hit a few more milestones on Sunday, too.
Having won Miami twice and of the other eight Masters 1000 events once each, it was the 10th Masters 1000 title of his career, becoming just the seventh player ever to hit double-digit trophies at this level.
MOST CAREER MASTERS 1000 TITLES (since 1990):
40: Novak Djokovic
36: Rafael Nadal
28: Roger Federer
17: Andre Agassi
14: Andy Murray
11: Pete Sampras
10: Jannik Sinner
8: Thomas Muster
8: Carlos Alcaraz
He’s also just the second player ever to sweep all three clay-court Masters 1000 events in the same year, after Rafael Nadal, who captured the Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome titles in 2010.
And last but certainly not least, Sinner is the first Italian man to win the title in Rome in 50 years, since before the Masters 1000 level of tournament even began. The last home player to capture the men’s title in the Italian capital was Adriano Panatta in 1976.
Ruud came out strong in the championship match on Sunday, holding serve at love and then breaking for an early 2-0 lead, but Sinner broke right back and was never in trouble again, winning five games in a row at one point to go from 3-4 in the first set to a 6-4, 2-0 lead, and eventually holding onto that break until it was all over.
He served it out at love, finishing it off with one last forehand winner.
The Italian was asked afterwards which of the many milestones he reached with his latest triumph meant the most to him.
“I don’t know, it’s tough to say,” he replied. “I think this year was the 50th year since an Italian won, so I’m really, really happy.
“It was a lot of tension on both sides. It was not perfect tennis from both of us. But it’s been an incredible last two and a half months. I try to put myself in the best possible position every time, trying to do the best I can, and not every day is simple, but I’m really happy.”
Sinner now heads to Roland Garros, where he’ll go for more history—it’s the only piece missing for him to have a Career Grand Slam.
Stat of the Day
Jannik Sinner breaks Novak Djokovic’s record for longest winning streak in Masters 1000 history
The world No. 1 stormed to his 32nd win in a row at this level with a quarterfinal victory over Andrey Rublev in Rome on Thursday.
Jannik Sinner has defeated Andrey Rublev in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4, to move through to the semifinals of the Masters 1000 event in Rome.
And he broke two records with that win.
First of all, it was his 27th win in a row on the tour, the new longest winning streak of his career, which has brought him four titles at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Madrid, and now to the final four in Rome.
His previous-longest streak was 26 in a row between 2024 and 2025.
But perhaps even more impressively, it was the world No. 1’s 32nd win in a row at Masters 1000 events, the new longest winning streak in Masters 1000 history, since this level of tournament began back in 1990.
Novak Djokovic held the previous record with 31 Masters 1000 wins in a row in 2011, but Sinner has now surpassed that with a run that has brought him a record five straight titles at this level—in Paris at the end of last year and at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Madrid so far this year.
LONGEST MASTERS 1000 WINNING STREAKS (since 1990):
•32: Jannik Sinner [’25 Paris to present]
•31: Novak Djokovic [’11 Indian Wells to ’11 Cincinnati]
•30: Novak Djokovic [’14 Paris to ’15 Canada]
•29: Roger Federer [’05 Hamburg to ’06 Monte Carlo]
•23: Rafael Nadal [’13 Madrid to ’13 Shanghai]
•23: Novak Djokovic [’13 Shanghai to ’14 Monte Carlo]
Even scarier? Sinner has won 64 of the 66 sets he’s played in this 32-match winning streak at Masters 1000 events, only dropping sets to Tomas Machac in the third round in Monte Carlo (in a tie-break) and Benjamin Bonzi in the second round of Madrid (also in a tie-break).
Rublev had given Sinner trouble in the past, including beating him once while he was No. 1 in Canada two years ago, but their meeting in Rome on Thursday afternoon was one-way traffic for the most part, as the Italian broke in the very first game of the match and eventually found himself up a set and a double break at 6-2, 4-1 after just over an hour on court.
Rublev made things interesting in the end—he got one of the breaks back and held his last few service games to stay within reach—but Sinner served it out on his first try to seal a one-hour, 31-minute victory.
“I don’t play for records, I play for my own story,” Sinner said when he was told about his record-breaking day. “Obviously in the same time it means a lot to me, but tomorrow is another day, another opponent, a different opponent. We’re going to play in different conditions, it’s going to be a night match, so let’s see. But now for me the highest priority is to try to recover as much as I can physically and we’ll see how it goes.”
Up next for Sinner will be either Daniil Medvedev or Spanish lucky loser Martin Landaluce, who played their quarterfinal match on Thursday night.
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