Jannik Sinner will play for the second time in his career at the ABN AMRO World Tennis World Tennis Championships from 5 to 13 February 2022.
The 20-year-old Italian player upset the then number 10 David Goffin in the second round on his debut at the Rotterdam tournament. In the next round Sinner was beaten by Roberto Bautista Agut in the tie-break of the third set.
Sinner turned professional in 2018 and won the Next Gen ATP Finals title in Milan in 2019. He won the first ATP title of his career in Sofia in October 2020. In the same year he reached the quarter finals at Roland Garros on his debut at this tournament, becoming the first player to achieve this feat since Rafael Nadal in 2005.
Sinner won four titles in 2021 in Melbourne, Washington (his first triumph at ATP 500 level), Sofia and Antwerp and finished runner-up to Hubert Hurkacz in his first ATP Masters 1000 final. As a 19-year-old he became the first teenager to win an ATP Tour title and the second youngest finalist in 36-year tournament history at the Masters 1000 in Miami.
He has become the first 20-year-old player to win five ATP titles since Novak Djokovic in 2007. Sinner broke into the top 10 for the first time in his career and is the youngest player in this elite club. He made his debut in the ATP Finals in Turin as an alternate and beat Hubert Hurkack 6-2 6-2 in the round-robin group avenging his defeat against the Polish player at the Miami Masters 1000 final. In his second round robin match in Turin he held a match point against Danil Medvedev before losing in the third set.
On 1 November Sinner became the first male player born in the 2000s to break into the top 10 after reaching the semifinal at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna.
Sinner joins a star-studded line-up that features 2021 US Open champion Danil Medvedev, 2019 ATP Finals champion Stefanos Tsitsipas, Rotterdam defending champion Andrey Rublev, 2021 Miami Open champion Hubert Hurkacz, Gael Monfils and Felix Auger Aliassime.
“After his win in the Next Gen ATP Finals, we gave him a wild card in 2020 and he immediately made it to the quarter finals. This year he had a fantastic season with four tournament wins. He was the first teenager ever to win an ATP 500 tournament in Washington”, said Rotterdam Tournament Director Richard Krajicek.
