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items-center space-x-3 border-b border-mobile-caption px-3 lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Jannik Sinner with Justine Henin in the inset                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>Jannik Sinner won the 2026 Indian Wells Open without dropping a set, but former world No 1 Justine Henin says although he was \u201cquite brilliant throughout the tournament\u201d, she believes he didn\u2019t really hit top gear at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>World No 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\">Sinner<\/a> beat qualifier Dalibor Svrcina, Denis Shapovalov, Joao Fonseca and Learner Tien to set up a semi-final match against Alexander Zverev with the fourth seed expected to offer a big challenge.<\/p>\n<p>But the Italian came away with a dominant 6-2, 6-4 victory to reach the final and, although he was pushed hard by Daniil Medvedev, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/everything-jannik-sinner-said-indian-wells-final-daniil-medvedev-message\">he won 7\u20136 (8\u20136), 7\u20136 (7\u20134)<\/a> to lift the Indian Wells Open trophy for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>He notched up a few feats as he became the first man to win two consecutive ATP Masters 1000 tournaments without dropping a set as he also won the Paris Masters without any of his matches going the distance.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is also the third [after Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic] and the youngest man to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/jannik-sinners-stunning-hard-court-feat-only-matched-by-novak-djokovic-roger-federer\">win all six hardcourt Masters 1000<\/a> events since 1990.<\/p>\n<h2>Jannik Sinner News<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/atp-miami-open-predictions-2026-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz-daniil-medvedev\">Miami Open Predictions: Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner, Daniil Medvedev continues resurgence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/what-is-the-sunshine-double-can-jannik-sinner-aryna-sabalenka-achieve-it\">Miami Open: What is the \u2018Sunshine Double\u2019 and can Jannik Sinner &amp; Aryna Sabalenka achieve it?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite those accomplishments, seven-time Grand Slam winner Henin says she felt Sinner still had a few gears left.<br \/>\n\u201cJannik Sinner didn\u2019t necessarily impress me, and that\u2019s what\u2019s actually quite worrying,\u201d she said on Eurosport\u2019s Winning Return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing him win with relative ease, because you can still analyse one of the matches in which he was, fortunately, very much on the back foot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was that final, of course, we saw a player [Fonseca in the third round] come along and give him a bit of a run for his money, but rewatching that final \u2013 in which he was, after all, pushed around \u2013 we might go into a bit more detail about the nature of that match and what Medvedev showed, but in the end we still had that feeling that he\u2019s got a gear left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any case, that\u2019s what I felt when watching that final \u2013 wondering when he\u2019s going to decide to push the accelerator a little harder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, you could see when Medvedev started to pick up the pace; there were moments when the tempo was very high, yet he still has that ability to manage the moments, which means he manages to come out on top, particularly in the second-set tie-break; there\u2019s no panic, you can sense no panic amongst his entourage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that in terms of management, I found him quite brilliant throughout the tournament, but in terms of play, I\u2019ve seen him play much more convincingly before. And yet, he\u2019s won Indian Wells for the first time in his career without dropping a single set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up next is another hard-court Masters event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/miami-open-jannik-sinner-backed-prediction-ex-serena-williams-coach\">the Miami Open<\/a>, before the attention switches to the clay-court season and Henin says he still has work to do on the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian added: \u201cHe\u2019s playing with exceptional serving quality. So there\u2019s some pretty phenomenal timing and there\u2019s obviously that confidence on this surface which allows him to stand out against all his rivals today on this surface. Apart from the Australian Open, where things were more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s now won the Australian Open, the US Open and the six Masters 1000, so it\u2019s time for Jannik Sinner to turn his attention to clay because he hasn\u2019t won anything there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No 1 says \u2018Jannik Sinner didn\u2019t necessarily impress me\u2019 with Indian Wells Open title Shahida Jacobs 19 Mar 2026 10:15 AM Jannik Sinner with Justine Henin in the inset Jannik Sinner won the 2026 Indian Wells Open without dropping a set, but former world No 1 Justine Henin says although he was \u201cquite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1834272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}