“Top 30 at the end of the year”: Djokovic’s conqueror Prizmic sets his target after reaching the Rome second week
Dino Prizmic followed his win over Djokovic with a 6-1, 7-5 defeat of Humbert to reach the Rome round of 16 – and named his year-end goal: top 30.
Dino Prizmic, Rome 2026 | © Foto FITP
Two days after beating Novak Djokovic, Dino Prizmic backed it up. The 20-year-old Croatian beat Ugo Humbert 6-1, 7-5 on Sunday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia to reach the round of 16 – and, asked afterwards what targets he had set himself for the rest of the season, gave a specific answer.
“For me, the goal is to be top 30 at the end of the year,” Prizmic said. Asked again to confirm the number, he repeated it. “Top 30, yeah. First of all, I just want to stay healthy and play as much as I can.”
Asked whether he had broken through a barrier, Prizmic was careful. “It’s hard for me to say. I just want to go match by match and see what to happen.”
Prizmic crossed into the world’s top 100 only last month, in April 2026, and reached his career-high of No. 79 a week ago after his Madrid run, where he beat Matteo Berrettini and the world No. 6 Ben Shelton to reach the third round.
Sunday’s win over Humbert pushes him further still: he is currently No. 78 on the ATP Rankings and is set to climb to at least No. 68 with this week’s run. Minimum, even if he loses against Karen Khachanov, his next opponent.
Humbert on Prizmic : “A super player”
“He’s a super player,” Humbert said to Tennis Majors after his loss. “Honestly, he played a really good first set. I made a few mistakes, but he played really deep, and that suited me on the baseline. I didn’t play my best in the first, but I hung in there. He earned his place.”
The route here has been longer than the recent results suggest. A former world junior No. 8, Prizmic became the first Croat since Marin Cilic in 2005 to win the boys’ singles title at Roland-Garros, in 2023. He broke into the world’s top 200 in August of that year, made his Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2024 Australian Open – where he lost to Djokovic in the first round, the same opponent he would beat in Rome two years later – and built a 69-39 Challenger record, with four consecutive finals between May and July 2025 and titles in Zagreb and Bratislava.
What slowed him down was his wrist. Prizmic confirmed in his press conference on Sunday that injury had been the obstacle for an extended period.
“It was not easy, especially in the beginning, when I had a lot of problems with my wrist,” he said. “But hopefully now everything is good. I just want to continue like this.”
Prizemic qualified for the US Open in 2025, entered the 2026 Australian Open as a lucky loser, and only now, in his first full healthy stretch, has produced the run that has changed his year.
Prizmic is the first Croatian man to reach the round of 16 at a Masters 1000 since Borna Coric.
