Jannik Sinner’s 2026 campaign is starting to feel a bit unreal, the kind of season where you keep checking the score like it might change. After beating Alcaraz in Monte-Carlo, he extended his winning streak to 17 matches—then, somehow, added yet another trophy to a year that already included Indian Wells and the Miami Open.
Now ranked number one in the world, Sinner has only suffered two losses this season. Those defeats came to Novak Djokovic and Jakub Mensik. The rest of the storyline has been consistency—clean, repeatable, almost boringly effective.
His latest title wasn’t just another weekend highlight. The Monte-Carlo Masters win gave him his seventh different ATP 1000 tournament victory, and it left him with only two Masters events still missing from his list. Those are the Madrid Open and the Italian Open—both still to come before Roland Garros on the calendar. He’s hunting specific boxes now, not just results, and you can sense it when the schedule turns into something more personal than “just play well.”
There’s also a milestone that’s already drawing attention from the history books. This victory brought him level with Andy Murray and Andre Agassi’s achievements at Masters events. Murray, for his part, fell short only in Monte-Carlo and Rome, while Agassi never managed to win either Monte-Carlo or Hamburg during his time on tour. Small details like those matter, because they’re basically the ghosts Sinner is trying to exorcise—exactly which titles he’s built, and which ones still refuse to arrive.
And yes, Sinner’s pace is impressive on paper: he now has eight Masters titles overall. But matching the bigger career totals is still a task. Agassi finished with 17 Masters titles across his career, while Murray ended up with 14 by the time he was done. So for all the momentum, the gap remains—and it’s not a tiny one.
Even with all the winning, there were chances that didn’t quite stick. At Masters Finals, Sinner’s runner-up finishes are reminders that the calendar can be cruel. His only loss at a tournament he hasn’t yet won came at the Italian Open, where Alcaraz got the better of him in 2025. Another defeat to Alcaraz followed at the Cincinnati Open, though that match was cut short when Sinner had to retire due to illness. He’s also been beaten twice in Miami, falling to Hubert Hurkacz in 2021 and Daniil Medvedev in 2023. (And it’s funny—at the practice courts around town, you’d swear everyone just wants the next match. The moment it becomes “missing title,” it starts to feel heavier.)
Still, the season keeps stacking. The streak is there. The ranking is there. The Masters club is there too. Whether Sinner can turn the remaining two events—Madrid and the Italian Open—into the final missing pieces before Roland Garros, well… that’s the part that’s got people watching a little more closely than usual.
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