By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, Could 3, 2026
Photograph credit score: Mutua Madrid Open Fb
No. 2-seeded Alexander Zverev stepped onto Madrid’s salmon-colored stage with excessive hopes.
By the point world No. 1 Jannik Sinner was accomplished meting out a 6-1, 6-2 beatdown, an emotionally black-and-blue Zverev conceded there’s an unlimited chasm between the rampaging Sinner and the remainder of the ATP pack.
Sinner annihilated Zverev 6-1, 6-2 to seize his maiden Mutua Madrid Open—and make main ATP Masters 1000 historical past.
World No. 1 Sinner made twin historical past gathering his file fifth consecutive ATP Masters 1000 championship—Paris, Indian Wells, Miami, Monte-Carlo and Madrid—and changing into the primary man to win the primary 4 ATP Masters 1000 titles of a season. It was Sinner’s
A shell-shocked Zverev stated the lanky Italian’s dominance isn’t any shock. Sinner stretched his ATP Masters 1000 match successful streak to an eye-popping 28 matches.
Zverev stated there are two easy the explanation why the ATP Tour is now Sin Metropolis: Sinner is best than everybody else and his lofty stage doesn’t fluctuate even in finals. Sinner improved to 30-2 in 2026 and raised his profession finals file to 28-9.
“Yeah, I feel, look, I don’t assume it’s a shock,” Zverev stated of Sinner. “He’s world No. 1. I feel it’s no more, not the bettering, I feel he’s very secure. He doesn’t have dips, he doesn’t have phases the place he goes down.
“I feel that’s why he’s world No. 1. To me, that’s extra spectacular, I feel, retaining the extent the entire time.”
Can Sinner maintain the standard of play fueling this file Masters 1000 run, seize his residence Masters 1000 crow in Rome to finish the profession set of ATP Masters 1000 championships? Zverev stated the stark actuality for the Tour is take Alcaraz out of the equation and Sinner has no current peer.
“I feel there’s an enormous hole between Sinner and everyone else proper now,” Zverev stated. “It’s fairly
easy. I feel there’s an enormous hole between Sinner and everyone else. And I feel there’s an enormous hole between Alcaraz, myself, perhaps Novak, and everyone else.
“I feel there’s two gaps proper now. It’s troublesome to say that there’s not a niche between Sinner
and everyone else if he hasn’t misplaced a match in what number of Masters occasions? Since Shanghai. He hasn’t misplaced a match in virtually 9 months. I feel it’s a must to admit that there’s a niche between him and everyone else, yeah.”
