Prediction Of Sinner Vs Djokovic H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Rolex Shanghai Masters 2024?

What Time Will Jannik Sinner Play Against Novak Djokovic?

Sinner and Djokovic are on the Day 12 Schedule at Rolex Shanghai Masters 2024 on Sunday 13 October 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

Head-to-Head: Jannik Sinner (ITA) vs Novak Djokovic (SRB)
Djokovic currently leads the head-to-head matchup between these two players with a record of 4 wins to Sinner’s 3.

Their previous meetings include:
– ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo 2021: Djokovic defeated Sinner in the Round of 32 with a score of 6-4 6-2 on clay.
– Wimbledon 2022: Djokovic defeated Sinner in the quarterfinals with a score of 5-7 2-6 6-3 6-2 6-2 on grass.
– Wimbledon 2022: Djokovic defeated Sinner in the semifinals with a score of 6-3 6-4 7-6(4) on grass.
– Nitto ATP Finals 2022: Sinner defeated Djokovic in the round-robin stage with a score of 7-5 6-7(5) 7-6(2) on hard court.
– Nitto ATP Finals 2022: Djokovic defeated Sinner in the final with a score of 6-3 6-3 on hard court.
– Davis Cup Finals 2022: Sinner defeated Djokovic in the semifinals with a score of 6-2 2-6 7-5 on hard court.
– Australian Open 2023: Sinner defeated Djokovic in the semifinals with a score of 6-1 6-2 6-7(6) 6-3 on hard court.

Jannik Sinner:
Jannik Sinner is currently 23 years old and holds the World No. 1 ranking, which is his career-high ranking. In 2024, he has a record of 64 wins and 6 titles. He has a strong performance at the Shanghai tournament, where he has a record of 7 wins and 1 loss, reaching the final in 2024.

Sinner’s notable achievements include:
– He started as an unranked player in 2018 and ended 2020 as the No. 1 teenager in the world.
– At the 2024 Australian Open, he defeated Djokovic in the semifinals and won his first Grand Slam title by rallying from two sets down in the final against Medvedev. He became the first player to beat Djokovic in the semifinals or later at the tournament. He also became the first Italian champion in Australian Open history and the second Italian man to win a Grand Slam title in the Open Era.
– He won the 2024 US Open, becoming one of the few players to capture both hard court Grand Slams in the same season. He is also the first man since Vilas in 1977 to win his first two Grand Slam titles in the same year.
– In 2023, he achieved a personal-best of 64 wins in a season, which is the record for most wins by an Italian player in a single season in the Open Era. He also won his first ATP Masters 1000 title in Toronto.
– Sinner was the first Italian man to reach the semifinals and final of the Nitto ATP Finals on home soil in Turin in 2023. He then led Italy to the 2023 Davis Cup title, the first since 1976.

In the current season, Sinner aims to achieve his personal-best 65th win and capture his 4th ATP Masters 1000 title, which would be his third title in 2024. He has a record of 7 wins and 4 losses against Top-5 players, with both losses coming to Alcaraz. Sinner has won at least a set in all 70 matches he has played this season, last losing in straight sets to Djokovic at the Nitto ATP Finals last year.

Novak Djokovic:
Novak Djokovic is currently 37 years old and holds the World No. 4 ranking. He has a career-high ranking of No. 1 and has a record of 37 wins and 8 losses in 2024. Djokovic has a strong history in the Shanghai tournament, with a record of 39 wins and 5 titles.

Some notable facts about Djokovic are:
– He is a record-breaking 7-time Nitto ATP Finals champion and holds the ATP/WTA record for the most weeks at No. 1 (428). He also holds the PIF ATP Rankings records for the most years ended at No. 1 (8) and the most wins against Top 10 players (259). Djokovic has finished in the Top 5 in 16 of the last 17 years, only dropping to No. 12 in 2017.
– With a total of 24 Grand Slam titles, Djokovic holds the record for the most men’s singles titles in history. He has won the Australian Open 10 times and is one of three men to hold all four Grand Slam championships at the same time.
– Djokovic is the only player to have won all nine ATP Masters 1000 events since the series started in 1990. He has won a record total of 40 ATP Masters 1000 titles.
– He has the most Grand Slam match wins in history (377) and the third-most men’s singles titles (99) and wins (1,124) in the Open Era.
– Djokovic won the men’s singles Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, joining Agassi and Nadal as the only players to achieve a men’s singles Career Golden Slam.
– He has winning records against both Federer (27-23) and Nadal (31-29) and has set several impressive win streaks, including an ATP Tour-record 43-match win streak (2010-11), an ATP Masters 1000-record 31-match win streak (2011), and an Open Era-record 30-match win streak in Grand Slam matches (2015-16).

In the current tournament, Djokovic aims to capture his 100th tour-level title, which would make him the third man in the Open Era to achieve this feat, following Connors and Federer. He has the most wins (39) and titles (4) in the history of the Shanghai tournament. He also aims to maintain his perfect record in Shanghai finals and win the title for the fifth time, adding to his impressive tally of titles in various tournaments.

[Doubles Final between the two players is not mentioned in the provided text.]

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Sinner will win.
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