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ATP Masters 1000s marks super record in 2024

Something is happening in the ATP Masters 1000 that hasn’t happened for years. Among the most interesting statistics of 2024 so far, there is certainly one that concerns the tournaments in the ATP Masters 1000 category: with the conclusion of the National Bank Open A few days ago, the sixth Masters 1000 tournament of the year ended, won by Alexei Popyrin.

And there have been six different winners in the six tournaments in this categoryIn the recent era where the most important titles were often awarded to the usual top players, this was something that had not happened for a very long time. To be precise, since 2003.

It has been 21 years since the first six Masters 1000 titles were awarded to six different players. The winners of the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 were, in order, Carlos Alcaraz in BNP Paribas opens from Indian sources and Jannik Sinner in Miami Openin the first part of the season.

On the clay court, Stefanos Tsitsipas won in Rolex Masters of Monte Carlo. There was the success of Andrei Rublev in Mutua Madrid Open while the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome there was the victory of Alexander Zverev. Finally in Montreal the first success in this category of the Australian tennis player Alexei Popyrin.

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In 2003, the year of the then Masters Series tournaments opened, with the success of Lleyton Hewitt in Indian Wells. This was followed by the success of Andre Agassi in Miami. On clay, the success of Carlos Alcaraz’s current coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero in Monte Carlo.

In Rome the success of Felix Mantilla who defeated Roger Federer in the final. At that time it had the status of Masters 1000 on clay Hamburg, with the success of Guillermo Coria and finally in Montreal the success of Andy Roddick.

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