Jannik Sinner returned to the tennis court on Saturday at the Italian Open for the first time since the Australian Open in January. Sinner served a three-month ban from the sport in order to settle an anti-doping violation stemming from the star's two positive doping tests almost a year ago.

Playing in his first match in 104 days, his longest spell without a game since the coronavirus pandemic (194 days), Jannik Sinner became the youngest player to achieve 22 or more consecutive match win