The world number one was born on August 16, 2001: let’s relive his career, from the child who divided his time between skiing and tennis to the global tennis phenomenon.

August 16, 2001, although no one could have known it at the time, was not a day like any other in San Candido. Jannik was born to Hans-Peter and Siglinde Sinner, a chef and a restaurant manager at the Fondovalle mountain hut in Val Fiscalina. He was their first biological child, completing the family with his adopted brother Mark. On August 16, 2025, Sinner is the world’s number one tennis player and already one of the most important and influential Italian athletes of all time. To celebrate, we have compiled 24 key moments in Jannik’s life and career, one for each year of his life. From his first steps in tennis to his historic victory at Wimbledon.