Tennis Season 2024 – Big Winners This Year
There were thrills and spills aplenty on the tennis circuit in 2024, with Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz taking a stranglehold on the ATP Tour while Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka highlighted the gulf between them and the rest on the WTA Tour.
However, there were also breakthrough wins for many while a number of up-and-coming youngsters staked their claim for being a potential future Grand Slam champion.
With less than a month to go until the 2025 season sparks into life with the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open, we review the 2024 campaign.
Tennis Season 2024: Sinner and Alcaraz emerge as clear top two
The story revolving around the ATP Tour in 2024 was the dominance of Sinner and Alcaraz, who shared the four Grand Slam titles between them and, helped by Novak Djokovic finally beginning to show his age, those two are threatening to be at the top for many years to come.
Sinner claimed his maiden major at the Australian Open in January before Alcaraz hit back by winning the French Open on his beloved clay and at Wimbledon, taking his Grand Slam tally to four despite being only 21 years of age.
However, world number one Sinner, still only 23 himself, responded by taking the US Open crown, and having also closed out the campaign with victory at the ATP Finals, the Italian was most successful player of the season with eight titles.
Djokovic was unable to add to his haul of 24 Grand Slam successes but he did earn the one big title he had not yet captured by winning the Gold medal at the Olympic Games in Paris, beating Alcaraz in a high-quality final.
Alexander Zverev also had a season to remember, with Masters 1000 wins in Paris and Rome helping him rise up to a ranking of world number two.
Rafael Nadal, 22 times a Grand Slam champion, announced his retirement after a glittering 23-year career, along with 2020 US Open winner Dominic Thiem who was dealt a series of injury setbacks.
Tennis Season 2024: Sabalenka usurps Swiatek at the summit
Sabalenka successfully defended her Australian Open title to start the 2024 campaign in style and she signed off the season in similar fashion, taking the US equivalent to make it three Grand Slam wins.
The big-hitting Belarusian thrives on a hard court and her seven finals were the most of any player, helping her to replace Swiatek as the world number one.
However, the Polish phenomenon did secure five titles, more than any other player in the calendar year, and she made it four French Open wins in five seasons to highlight her clay-court dominance.
The other Grand Slam prize, Wimbledon, went the way of Barbora Krejcikova who had broken her major duck at the French Open in 2021.
Olympic Gold went to Chinese world number five Qinwen Zheng, while it was a case of so near yet so far for Jasmine Paolini, who finished runner-up to Swiatek at Roland Garros and played second fiddle to Krejcikova at the All England Club.
Zheng also made her first Grand Slam final, finishing runner-up to Sabalenka at the Australian Open to suggest there will be plenty of big days ahead, while Jessica Pegula was the Belarusian’s victim in the title decider on her home soil in America.
It wasn’t a dream year for world number three Coco Gauff, who had won the US Open in 2023, but she did sign off the season on a positive note with her victory at the WTA Finals, suggesting the American could be primed for a bright start to 2025.
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