{"id":97500,"date":"2026-04-12T19:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/?p=97500"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:37:40","slug":"sinners-perpetual-push-for-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/sinners-perpetual-push-for-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner&#8217;s Perpetual Push For Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In professional sport, if you\u2019re not improving, you\u2019re going backwards.<\/p>\n<p>So despite winning back-to-back ATP Masters 1000 titles in Indian Wells and Miami last month, Jannik Sinner\u2019s team set about building on his toolkit in the short lead-in they had to the clay-court season.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the Italian won his first Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters title \u2014 and first clay-court event at Masters 1000 level \u2014 coach Simone Vagnozzi outlined the steps that helped lead Sinner to the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took two days off, and on Tuesday we started a little bit to feel the court, the sliding on the court, because the movement is the one that is more different from hard court to clay court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then we started to play a little bit with more spin, open the angles a little bit more, tried some with dropshots, some with kick. So day by day, we improve all this tactical and movement stuff. Then we try on court in the match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBmq5UrmJZo?si=ntHd5zjmxnFAprni\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sinner ran up his Masters 1000 set-winning streak to 37 before needing three sets to defeat Tomas Machac in the quarter-finals. But aside from that blemish, the team was happy with his progress through the draw, which included an eighth consecutive win over World No. 3 Alexander Zverev, further underlining the gulf between Sinner, Alcaraz and the rest of the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think from after the first two matches, he started to feel his game better,\u201d Vagnozzi said. \u201cMore dropshots, more variation with the height of the ball, with the serve. So we are really, really impressed about his level here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinner, who has now won 22 consecutive matches at Masters 1000 level, joins Alcaraz with eight titles at this tier. Beginning his 67th week as World No. 1 on Monday after displacing Alcaraz \u2014 who has spent 66 weeks at No. 1 during his career \u2014 Sinner has now won seven of the nine Masters 1000 events, needing Madrid and Rome (where he was a finalist last year) to complete the set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing week,\u201d Sinner said. \u201cSome great, great matches from my side. So very, very happy. Tried to increase my level match after match. Winning my first big title on this surface means also a lot to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day I wake up and tried to improve and then tried to get better as a player, and here really we did day by day trying to understand what the best game style is against every opponent, because I haven&#8217;t played the same kind of tennis against everyone. We changed small, small things.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The shot of a champion \ud83d\udcab<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janniksin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@janniksin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolexMonteCarloMasters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RolexMonteCarloMasters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3EWT3WK6vc\">pic.twitter.com\/3EWT3WK6vc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters (@ROLEXMCMASTERS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ROLEXMCMASTERS\/status\/2043376460056912184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sinner becomes the first player since Novak Djokovic to win the first three Masters 1000s of the season and joins Djokovic and Rafael Nadal as the only players to win four consecutive tournaments at this level, dating back to his Rolex Paris Masters title last November. (He also won the Nitto ATP Finals last year without dropping a set.)<\/p>\n<p>Will Sinner push on and attempt to win a fifth Masters 1000 in Madrid, which begins 10 days from now? There was no clear answer from his champion\u2019s press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be good having some days off now, away from the courts,\u201d Sinner said. \u201cIt was everything quite hectic from one tournament to the other. And then we see what&#8217;s coming next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Simone Vagnozzi details Sinner&#8217;s winning preparation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jannik Sinner&#039;s Perpetual Push For Perfection<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jannik Sinner and coach Simone Vagnozzi talk about subtle changes added to the Italian&#039;s game ahead of his Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters title run.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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