{"id":86842,"date":"2025-07-14T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=86842"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:40:20","slug":"jannik-sinner-reaches-4-million-instagram-followers-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/07\/14\/jannik-sinner-reaches-4-million-instagram-followers-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner Reaches 4 Million Instagram Followers After Wimbledon Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner&#8217;s popularity within tennis and beyond continues to rise after winning <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/07\/13\/sinner-overcomes-demons-claims-wimbledon-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">his maiden Wimbledon title<\/a>. Sinner defeated his big rival and two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 4-6 6-4 6-4 6-4\u00a0 in Sunday&#8217;s final to lift his fourth Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p>It was redemption day for Sinner, who atoned for three missed match points in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open<\/a> final 34 days earlier against the same opponent. In a Wimbledon of firsts, which saw <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/07\/13\/iga-swiatek-amanda-anisimova-wimbledon-best\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Iga Swiatek become the first Polish player<\/a> to win the singles title, Sinner is now the first Italian, male or female, to win the Wimbledon singles trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The World No. 1 also notched an impressive social media milestone thanks to his Wimbledon success. Sinner, who defeated former and current champions in back-to-back rounds to win the tournament, attained four million followers on Instagram. He consolidates his position as the fourth-most followed active tennis star.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Sinner <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/04\/13\/top-10-most-followed-tennis-players-instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">accounted for 2.4 million followers<\/a> on the Meta platform, but after bagging three of the last four Grand Slams on offer, he has almost doubled that tally. With his four-set win over Alcaraz, Sinner&#8217;s following stands at 4.1 million, and that number could increase by hundreds of thousands in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"VZI5rlWyRxZy9_TndUlW-Q\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2224935689\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'VZI5rlWyRxZy9_TndUlW-Q',sig:'YX0jpYbw20rDs4nAw0hoJXg-7PJPluzceFNpX7YhlJk=',w:'594px',h:'378px',items:'2224935689',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Who are the most followed active tennis players on Instagram in 2025?<\/h2>\n<p>Sinner still has a long way to go to catch up to the most followed active tennis player. That accolade is reserved for 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic. The Serbian has amassed 16 million followers over the last decade thanks to his unparalleled resume.<\/p>\n<p>And just behind Djokovic is the man Sinner dethroned as Wimbledon champion. Carlos Alcaraz has 7.3 million followers. The Spaniard&#8217;s stock rose rapidly after beating Djokovic in the last two Wimbledon finals and winning <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/06\/08\/alcaraz-achieves-improbable-bests-sinner-in-french-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">the longest French Open final in history<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>Injured Australian Nick Kyrgios ranks third in this list with 4.2 million followers, and it is looking increasingly likely that Sinner will overtake him soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner&#8217;s popularity within tennis and beyond continues to rise after winning his maiden Wimbledon title. Sinner defeated his big rival and two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 4-6 6-4 6-4 6-4\u00a0 in Sunday&#8217;s final to lift his fourth Grand Slam title. It was redemption day for Sinner, who atoned for three missed match points in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":55135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,2,9],"tags":[43062,5729,5862,209,22],"class_list":["post-86842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wimbledon","category-atp","category-featured","category-news","tag-2025-wimbledon","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-novak-djokovic"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86854,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86842\/revisions\/86854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}