Will Jannik Sinner feel the pressure heading into the French Open? Laura Robson says victory at Roland-Garros "feels inevitable" for the world No 1.
Sinner became only the second player to win all nine ATP Masters 1000 titles .
The 24-year-old is the youngest player to complete the Career Golden Masters after Djokovic did so aged 31 by defeating Roger Federer in the 2018 Cincinnati Open final.
Sinner's success extended his winning run to 29 matches and also made him the first Italian man to win the competition since Adriano Panatta in 1976.
The victory establishes himself as a firm favourite heading into the French Open - the only major he has not yet won - which starts on Sunday, May 24.
Speaking to Your Site Tennis, Laura Robson said: "The fact that we're already saying, 'yeah, he probably will win Roland-Garros'. You go down the list and no one else looks anywhere near his level at the moment, so the reality is that's going to be another two weeks of pressure he's going to be taking on. But he doesn't mind it.
"He's won so many matches, this feels natural for him. He's not overthinking things. But when he gets to these big finals he's just so relaxed.
"From the ATP Finals in Turin onwards, I think he's probably quite used to playing in front of his home fans now and used to the pressure and expectations, and he knows how to manage it.
"He's never satisfied and I'm sure there will be a couple of things that he will want to work on ahead of Roland-Garros. But in general he just going to be getting better and better and it's up to everyone to catch up because he's just so far ahead."
Sinner extended his winning streak to 29 matches in Rome. His last defeat came against Czech Jakub Mensik at the Qatar Open quarter-finals in February.
And he's now 17-0 on clay this year entering the French Open, which starts next Sunday.
Robson continued: "There's so few players who can play this amount of matches without losing concentration, without getting injured.
"Of course, we can keep talking about the amount of work that's done in the gym and all the physio to be ready for this, but I think also it's the mentality that he has."
Sinner overcame exhaustion to beat Daniil Medvedev in the semi-finals, but there were no signs of fatigue against Ruud, who has been one of the top clay-court players for years.
"He doesn't have dips," added former British No 1, Robson. "He might get frustrated for a game or two, but I can count on one hand the amount of points this year that he's probably thrown away, when you just kind of dump the ball into the net and move on to the next one. There's none of that. There's no unforced errors.
"So, it's pretty special to watch. Probably not to play against.
"And so, when one of them [Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz] is not healthy, you suddenly feel the effects of that across the draw, because you're pretty much pencilling Jannik in at the moment to the final, and then, when he does get there, because it does feel inevitable, you just feel like the others don't have the confidence to challenge him.
"So, yeah, it's a tough ask for everyone else who is not Carlos Alcaraz."
Sinner has won two Australian Open titles, Wimbledon and the US Open, with the Coupe des Mousquetaires just missing from his trophy cabinet.
Tim Henman admitted: "It's very, very special, and I think we touched on it before this match when you reflect on the greats of the game and this era that he is following with [Roger] Federer, [Rafael] Nadal, and [Novak] Djokovic.
"Djokovic has been able to accomplish it, which is an incredible feat, and Federer, and Nadal, as great as they were, they were not able to achieve that.
"It just emphasises how good, how complete he is, and at the age of the 24, he's going to go on and win a lot more of these things, that is for sure."
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