Jannik Sinner: 5 reasons he’s the Best in the World 🌍

Yannick Sinner has been the most dominant player in the 2024 season winning the Australian Open, the US Open, the ATP Tour Finals and finishing the year as world number one. And in this video let's take a closer look at five reasons why he's been able to play so well. Number one, his serve. Yannick has won 91 percent of all his service games this year and he's won 57 percent of points on his second serve making him the leader in both of those stats. So what makes him so lethal on his service games? Well number one, he has a great serve. He's really improved that aspect of his game over the last couple of years and behind his serve he's got an incredible baseline game. But on his serve itself if I had to choose just one aspect I would say it's his ball toss. Yannick uses quite a low ball toss and he hits the ball very close to the apex or the highest spot. This encourages a faster service motion but also helps with the disguise. When players toss the ball high they tend to have a pause somewhere throughout the motion. This breaks that momentum that they're creating from the start of the swing and the higher you toss the ball the faster the ball is moving when you're actually trying to make contact. Not to mention the issues with the wind but giving away clues to your opponent about where you may be serving. So by using that lower ball toss it helps Yannick serve faster with more disguise. Reason number two, Yannick's return of serve. Yannick has won 27.8% of all return games throughout the year and when you combine the serve and return stats it's very easy to see why he's had so much success. He's winning 91% of service games and breaking serve 28% of the time. So why is his return of serve so effective? Number one, he's great at blocking the faster serves by shortening his backswings and number two, he's great at moving and covering a lot of ground with one or two power steps. This allows him to reach the balls that a lot of players wouldn't even get their racket on. He's also not scared to chip a few returns into play but he's also great at stepping forward, taking time away from the opponent and taking those second serves on the rise. Reason number three, Yannick has been the number one pressure player throughout the entire season. He's won 41% of break points when returning serve but he saved 73% of break points on his service games. This is another key combination of statistics from the season. Breaking serve 41% of the time when he has that break point and only losing 27% when he's facing one. Now if you're one of the few lucky players that get Yannick to a tie break then there's more bad news because Yannick has won 75% of all the tie breaks he's played during the year. Reason four is of course his ground strokes. His forehand and backhand are both lethal. He can defend of both wings but he's also great at attacking. Now Yannick is a complete player. He has no real weaknesses and from the baseline we can see this. He defends extremely well of both wings but he's also great at moving into the court, taking time away from his opponents and dominating play from the baseline. Now he's able to take the ball on the rise because he has quite compact swings. When he has time he'll take a bigger swing but in general you'll see quite compact swings allowing him to step inside the court, take time away from his opponent and rush them from the baseline. This is very similar to what Andre Agassi used to do and it's no coincidence that Darren Cahill is now working with Yannick Sinner but it's also something that we've seen Novak Djokovic do unbelievably well throughout the years. And reason number five is Yannick's movement. He's one of the best movers on the tour and he has incredible speed for a taller player but he also has incredible balance. You rarely see him off balance when he's hitting his strokes. A lot of this is to do with the fact that Yannick was a great skier as a junior. In fact he could have been a professional but he chose to play tennis. And there are a lot of examples throughout the season where Yannick really shouldn't stay in the point. He shouldn't have any chance of reaching that ball but he's not only able to reach it he's able to keep it in play and hit a pretty effective shot. By having such great defense it then allows him to have those opportunities to turn the point around and start to attack and take the ball on the rise. But it all starts from the fact that he's a great mover. Now we can cover all of these topics in much more detail in future lessons but that's a quick breakdown of why Yannick has had so much success in 2024. Now can he carry this over into 2025 and who are some of the main contenders that can actually challenge him especially on hard courts? Leave your comments down below and I look forward to reading them. 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