Sinner Achieves Rare Feat of Back-to-Back Masters Titles Without Dropping a Set

Jannik Sinner has joined a tiny group of players in tennis history by winning back-to-back Masters 1000 titles without dropping a single set. Having achieved the feat at the Paris Masters at the end of last season, he repeated it at Indian Wells, defeating Daniil Medvedev 7-6(6), 7-6(4) in the final.
The record speaks to Sinner’s total dominance of men’s hard-court tennis at the moment. In two consecutive top-level events, he has navigated every round and every opponent without surrendering a set — a remarkable standard of consistency.
In the Indian Wells final, Medvedev provided the sternest challenge, taking the match to tiebreaks in both sets. The second tiebreak, which Medvedev led 4-0, was the closest any player came to breaking Sinner’s run, but the Italian’s response was definitive.
Seven straight points to win the tiebreak 7-4 — the sequence that completed the Masters double and added the Indian Wells title to Sinner’s growing collection. At 24, he now holds every major prize hard-court tennis can offer, including the Australian Open, US Open, and ATP Finals.
Women’s world number one Sabalenka rounded off an exceptional tournament with a 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(6) victory over Rybakina, ending a four-final losing streak against the Kazakh. Her match-point save in the deciding tiebreak was the dramatic highlight of an outstanding women’s final.