Former world No 1 Boris Becker has assessed that Jannik Sinner is playing the best tennis of his career as he declared that the Italian is \u201cfrom another planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinner<\/a> holds a 24-2 record in 2026, and he is on a 17-match winning streak after winning the Masters 1000 events in Monte Carlo, Miami and Indian Wells. He dropped just a single set across the three tournaments.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old\u2019s maiden triumph in Monte Carlo saw him overtake Carlos Alcaraz to climb to the top of the ATP Rankings for the first time since November.<\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam winner is only the second player to win the first three ATP Masters tournaments of the season after Novak Djokovic \u2014 who accomplished the feat in 2015.<\/p>\n If Sinner wins the Madrid Open, where ATP main draw action will begin on Wednesday, he will become the first man in history to win the first four Masters events in a season.<\/p>\n Speaking to Eurosport Spain<\/em><\/a>, Becker discussed Sinner\u2019s sensational form heading into the Madrid Open.<\/p>\n \u201cSinner is playing his best tennis right now,\u201d said the six-time Grand Slam champion. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen him as strong as he is now.<\/p>\n Boris Becker shares theory on why Carlos Alcaraz gets injured more than Jannik Sinner<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s 3 biggest future rivals revealed by Boris Becker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWinning the Sunshine Double and then returning to Europe on clay, winning Monte Carlo and practically not losing a set, it\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s in top form and I think he might win in Madrid too, especially now that Alcaraz is injured. He\u2019s from another planet.<\/p>\n \u201cI call Sinner \u2018Djokovic 2.0\u2019, with a similar style from the baseline, very consistent. Plus, he wins his matches quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n Sinner is the heavy favourite to triumph in Madrid after world No 2 Carlos Alcaraz \u2014 his biggest rival \u2014 was forced to pull out due to a wrist injury.<\/p>\n The world No 1 will face a qualifier in the second round at Caja Magica after receiving an opening round bye.<\/p>\n The Italian is chasing his maiden title at the Madrid Open, with his best result to date in the Spanish capital a run to the quarter-finals in 2024.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Is a big threat to Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner finally emerging in men\u2019s tennis?<\/a> The post Boris Becker says Jannik Sinner is \u2018from another planet\u2019 as he makes Madrid Open prediction<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former world No 1 Boris Becker has assessed that Jannik Sinner is playing the best tennis of his career as he declared that the Italian is \u201cfrom another planet.\u201d Sinner holds a 24-2 record in 2026, and he is on a 17-match winning streak after winning the Masters 1000 events in Monte Carlo, Miami and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n
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