Sinner Breaks Djokovic Record With 32nd Straight Win at Atp Rome 2026
Jannik Sinner ended atp rome 2026 with another marker on an already heavy run, beating Andrey Rublev 6-2, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals and break Novak Djokovic’s all-time ATP Masters 1000 record for successive match wins. The win gave the Italian world number one a 32nd straight victory at that level and left him one match from the Rome final.
Sinner's 32-match Masters run
Sinner did it in straight sets on 15 May 2026, taking Rublev apart 6-2 in the opener before closing it 6-4. The 12th seed never turned the match into a long grind, and the scoreline sent Sinner through while ending Djokovic’s previous standard for consecutive Masters 1000 wins.
The run has stretched across tournaments and months. He won in Paris in November before this Masters 1000 streak began, then added titles in Indian Wells, Miami, Monte-Carlo and Madrid in 2026. Earlier in May, he became the first player in history to win five consecutive Masters 1000 titles.
Rublev, Medvedev and Rome
Rublev was the opponent who had to absorb the record loss. Sinner has now won 45 of his past 47 matches across all tournaments, and he has claimed 64 of the 66 sets he has contested during the streak, numbers that explain how quickly he has cleared the field in Rome and elsewhere.
Medvedev stands between him and the final. He beat Martin Landaluce 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 after dropping the first five games and reached his first semi-final in the clay-court swing, setting up a meeting that asks more of Sinner than the quarter-final did.
Medvedev and the Rome target
Sinner’s next step carries a wider goal as well. He is trying to become the first Italian men's singles champion in Rome since Adriano Panatta 50 years ago, and he has already joined Rafael Nadal as the only other man to reach the semi-finals at each of the first five Masters 1000 events in a season.
He also owns 121 wins from 150 matches at ATP 1000 level, just behind Nadal’s 123 wins from 150 matches, the best record since the format began in 1990. After the crowd heard him say, “I don't play for records. I play just for my own story,” he still had the same practical task in front of him: recover, then handle Medvedev for a place in the final.
