Net Worth: C. $12 Million
Age: 22
DOB: 16 August 2001
Birthplace: Innichen, Italy
Jannik Sinner is an Italian tennis player who is making quite a name for himself on the professional circuit. Having turned pro in 2018, he has achieved the highest ATP ranking of fourth in the world, which he reached in October 2023. Along with Adriano Panatta, this makes him the highest-ranking male Italian player of all time.
At the time of writing Sinner has already won ten singles titles on the ATP Tour, which includes a Masters 1000 title, which he picked up at the Canadian Open in 2023. He has also won one doubles title.
Still only 22 years of age, he has already generated a net worth of over $12 million – which is sure to grow even more if he continues on his current trajectory.
Early Life
Jannik Sinner was born on 16 August 2001 in Innichen/San Candido, a town in South Tyrol, northern Italy, to Hanspeter and Siglinde Sinner. He was raised in Sexten and his dad works as a chef, while his mum is a member of the wait staff at a ski lodge. He has a brother named Marc.
Sinner began skiing and playing tennis when he was only three years old. From the age of eight to twelve, he was one of Italy’s top junior skiers and won a national championship in giant slalom when he was eight and was a national runner-up at the age of twelve.
At the age of seven, Sinner gave up tennis for a year to focus on skiing. However, his father encouraged him to return to the sport. When he started to play tennis again, he teamed up with Heribert Mayr, who became his first proper coach. Despite this, tennis was still behind skiing and football as his priorities.
When he turned thirteen, Sinner decided to give up skiing and football so he could concentrate on tennis. He preferred tennis because it was an individual sport where he could compete directly against an opponent and make all of the decisions.
He moved to Bordighera on the Italian Riviera to train at the Piatti Tennis Centre under Riccardo Piatti and Massimo Sartori. His parents supported his decision and he lived with the family of one of his coaches, Luka Cvjetković. Before training full-time with Piatti, Sinner only played tennis twice a week.
Junior Career
Sinner joined the ITF Junior Circuit in 2016, which is the top junior tour run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). However, he wasn’t that successful.
In singles, he never played the main draw of any high-level Grade 1 events, and his only higher-level Grade A tournament was the Trofeo Bonfiglio. In 2017, he lost in the opening round of Italy’s Grade A tournament, and in 2018, he reached the quarterfinals. That was the only junior event he played that year, and he never participated in further Grand Slam events on the tour.
As he did not play in many high-level tournaments, Sinner’s career-best junior ranking was a relatively low No. 133.
Turning Pro Career
Despite limited success on the junior tour Sinner started playing on the ITF Men’s Circuit in early 2018. Due to his low ranking, he could only participate in ITF Futures events initially. However, he soon began receiving wild cards for ATP Challenger Tour events, which is the second-tier tour run by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He won only one ITF title of the year in doubles, and he finished the season ranked No. 551.
In February 2019, at the age of 17 years and 6 months, Sinner won his first ATP Challenger title in Bergamo, despite entering the tournament with no match wins at the Challenger level. In doing so he created history by becoming the first player – male or female – born in 2001 to reach a Challenger final. At the same time he also became Italy’s youngest ever winner in history of a Challenger title. After the win, he shot up more than 200 spots to number 324 in ATP rankings. After winning a brace of ITF Futures titles, Sinner participated in the Hungarian Open – his first official ATP tournament – as a lucky loser, where he won his first tour-level match over the Hungarian Máté Valkusz. A week later in Ostrav, he made it to his second ATP Challenger final, losing to the Pole Kamil Majchrzak.
In the latter part of the season, Sinner found himself playing on the ATP Tour more regularly than the Challenger Tour. He claimed his inaugural ATP Masters triumph at the Italian Open against Steve Johnson, and he broke into the top 200 with his next ATP win at the Croatia Open Umag in July. The following month in Lexington, he was victorious on another ATP Challenger title, becoming part of a select group of eleven 17-year-olds to have won multiple Challenger titles. After failing to qualify at Wimbledon, Sinner reached the Grand Slam main draw for the first at the US Open. However, he lost to Stan Wawrinka in a fairly one-sided affair.
Current Pro Record
At the time of writing Sinner has a career win percentage in singles of 72.3%. He has won 193 of his 267 games, in the process taking out 10 career tititles. Whilst he has not won any Grand Slam events, he has reached the quarter-final stages of the Australian, French and US Opens. He also made the semi-final of Wimbledon in 2023 and the final of the Tour Finals in 2023. Moreover, in the Davis Cup of 2023, he helped his country win the tournament.
As a doubles player, he has been less successful, winning only 47.5% of his games and earning a 19-21 career record. He has won one doubles tournament though.
Endorsements
Off-court, Sinner has enjoyed big money endorsement deals with a range of international brands including Head, Nike, Rolex, Alfa Romeo and Gucci.
He also has profited from promoting Formula 1, Lavazza, Parmigiano Reggiano, Technogy and FASTWEB.
Personal Life
When not playing tennis, Sinner lives in Monte Carlo with his girlfriend Maria Braccini, who is both a model and a social media influencer.
Sinner speaks fluent Italian, English and German, which was his mother tongue. He also counts Andreas Seppi, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer as his idols and is a big fan of AC Milan.