Jannik Sinner reportedly set skip two events after giving up in No. 1 ranking race

Jannik Sinner might reduce his workload for the rest of 2025 because of how slim the Italian's hopes are of finishing as the year-end ATP world No. 1.

Sinner overtook Novak Djokovic as the top-ranked player after the 2025 French Open. He retained that position for over a year and held off Carlos Alcaraz with consistently excellent results.

His 15-month spell as the world No. 1 ended when Alcaraz defeated him in the 2025 US Open final. The Spaniard produced a performance he described as brilliant to beat Sinner 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in New York.

That was their third consecutive Grand Slam final meeting, with Alcaraz winning two of them. Sinner's triumph at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships was his only victory in his last seven matches against the 22-year-old.

The four-time Grand Slam champion's hopes of becoming the world No. 1 again before the end of 2025 heavily depended on his result at the 2025 Shanghai Masters, where he was the defending champion.

Sinner retired from his round of 32 match against Tallon Griekspoor in Shanghai after severely cramping in the brutal heat. Valentin Vacherot went on to unexpectedly win the Masters 1000 tournament.

Currently, Alcaraz is on 11,340 ranking points compared to Sinner's 10,000. The Italian's hopes are further damaged by his defending far more points than Alcaraz until the end of 2025 because he won the 2024 ATP Finals on home soil in Turin.

Sinner is currently scheduled to play at this year's Vienna Open, Paris Masters, and the ATP Finals. The 24-year-old has not confirmed whether he will compete at the 2025 Davis Cup Finals to help Team Italy's hopes of a third consecutive title.

If Sinner participates in all those tournaments, he could still mathematically overtake Alcaraz, even though his chances are slim. However, as per Tennis365, Simone Eterno, a reporter for Eurosport Italy, has reported that his schedule will differ from what was initially planned.

Due to his remote chances of overtaking Alcaraz before the end of 2025, Eterno said Sinner will not play in the final Masters 1000 of 2025 in Paris but will compete at the ATP 500 in Vienna.

If Sinner does not play at the Masters 1000 tournament, it would indicate he does not care much about the ranking points and is probably using the Vienna Open to get some indoor hard-court match practice before the ATP Finals.

Eterno also reported that Sinner will not feature at the Davis Cup Finals. That would be less surprising after Sinner had not previously committed to the event and played a pivotal role in his country's winning the previous two iterations.

Alcaraz would be guaranteed to finish 2025 as the year-end No. 1 if Eterno's reporting is correct. That would be his second time achieving that feat, and the first time since he did it as a 19-year-old in 2022.

Sinner must rue missing three months of this season due to his doping suspension. When he came back during the clay-court swing, Alcaraz had begun his remarkable run of form, which has not stopped since he won April's 2025 Monte-Carlo Masters.